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Pointing : where language, culture, and cognition meet

Title
Pointing : where language, culture, and cognition meet / edited by Sotaro Kita.
Publication
Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 2003.

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Additional Authors
Kita, Sotaro, 1963-
Description
vii, 339 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Alternative Title
Where language, culture, and cognition meet
Subject
  • Pointing (Gesture)
  • Nonverbal communication
  • Communication and culture
  • Nonverbal Communication
  • 77.63 social interaction and relations
  • Non-verbale communicatie
  • Gebaren
  • Comunicação não-verbal
  • Gestos
  • Comunicação (cultura)
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
Pointing: A Foundational Building Block of Human Communication / Sotaro Kita -- Pointing Is the Royal Road to Language for Babies / George Butterworth -- Chimpanzees' "Pointing": Another Error of the Argument by Analogy? / Daniel J. Povinelli, Jesse M. Bering, Steve Giambrone -- From Index-Finger Extension to Index-Finger Pointing: Ontogenesis of Pointing in Preverbal Infants / Nobuo Masataka -- Pointing Toward Two-Word Speech in Young Children / Susan Goldin-Meadow, Cynthia Butcher -- Pointing by Hand in "Neapolitan" / Adam Kendon, Laura Versante -- How to Point in Zinacantan / John B. Haviland -- Why Pointing With the Index Finger Is Not a Universal (in Sociocultural and Semiotic Terms) / David Wilkins -- Pointing as Situated Practice / Charles Goodwin -- Pointing and Placing / Herbert H. Clark -- From Pointing to Reference and Predication: Pointing Signs, Eyegaze, and Head and Body Orientation in Danish Sign Language / Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen -- Pointing and Morality in Chicago / David McNeill -- Interplay of Gaze, Hand, Torso Orientation, and Language in Pointing / Sotaro Kita.
ISBN
  • 0805840141
  • 9780805840148
  • 0805846141 (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2002070057
OCLC
  • ocm49727890
  • 49727890
  • SCSB-1294460
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library