Overview

Gestures are a special sort of action. They communicate the individual's moods and desires to the world and they operate under different psychological and cognitive constraints to other actions. The connections between gesture and language - spoken and signed - pose some fascinating questions. How intimately are gesture and language connected? Did one evolve from the other? To what extent are they similarly processed in the brain? In what ways are signed languages akin to spoken language and gestures? Gesture, Speech, and Sign examines these questions, bringing together an international array of expertise to explore the origins, neurobiology, and uses of these three communication systems. A unique feature of the book is its discussion of how a greater understanding of these issues can be used to improve human-computer interactions. Designed to appeal to a multi-disciplinary audience Gesture, Speech, and Sign will be of interest to advanced students and researchers in neuroscience, psychology, linguistics, computer science, and those involved in deaf studies.

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Author:   Lynn Messing (Applied Science and Engineering Laboratories, Applied Science and Engineering Laboratories, A.I. du Pont Institute / University of Delaware) ,  Ruth Campbell (Department of Psychology, Department of Psychology, University College London)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 24.10cm
Weight:   0.523kg
ISBN:  

9780198524519

ISBN 10:   019852451
Pages:   252
Publication Date:   01 July 1999
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Lynn S Messing and Ruth Campbell: Acknowledgements Lynn S Messing and Ruth Campbell: Preface Lynn S Messing: An introduction to signed languages 1: Pierre Feyereisen: Neuropsychology of communicative movements 2: David P Corina: Neural disorders of language and movement: Evidence from American sign language 3: Paul Ekman: Emotional and conversational non-verbal signals 4: Ruth Campbell: Language from faces : Uses of the face in speech and in sign 5: David McNeill: Triangulating the growth point - Arriving at consciousness 6: Robert Krauss and Uri Hadar: The role of speech-related arm/hand gestures in word retrieval 7: Susan Goldin-Meadow: Development of gesture with and without speech in hearing and deaf children 8: Karen Emmorey: Do signers gesture? 9: William C Stokoe and Marc Marschark: Signs, gestures, and signs 10: Lynn S Messing: Two modes - two languages? 11: Justine Cassell: Embodied conversational agents: A new paradigm for study of gesture and for human computer interface

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