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Author:   Alan Cienki (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
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9781108486316

ISBN 10:   1108486312
Pages:   710
Publication Date:   18 April 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Introduction Alan Cienki; Part I. Gestural Types: Forms and Functions: 1. Emblems Lluís Payrató; 2. Recurrent gestures: cultural, individual, and linguistic dimensions of meaning making Silva H. Ladewig; 3. Iconicity and representation in gesture Irene Mittelberg and Jennifer Hinnell; 4. Indexicality, deixis, and space in gesture Ellen Fricke; 5. From the neck up: facial gestures in dialogue Nicole Chovil; Part II. Ways of Approaching Gesture Analysis: 6. Contributions to the study of visible action as utterance: a fifty year retrospective Adam Kendon; 7. Systems of gesture coding and annotation Jana Bressem; 8. A toolbox of methods for gesture analysis Cornelia Müller; 9. The gestural sign: a concrete and reasoned analysis of co-speech gesture Geneviève Calbris and Mary M. Copple; 10. Creation and analysis of the multimedia Russian corpus for gesture research Ekaterina Rakhilina and Alan Cienki; 11. A kinesiological approach to gesture analysis Dominique Boutet and Alan Cienki; 12. Motion tracking technology for the study of gesture James Trujillo; Part III. Gestures and Language: 13. The role of gesture in debates on the origins of language Przemysław Żywiczyński and Jordan Zlatev; 14. Gesture and first language development: the multimodal child Aliyah Morgenstern; 15. Gesture and second/foreign language acquisition Marianne Gullberg; 16. Gesture and sign language Sherman Wilcox; 17. On grammar-gesture relations: gestures associated with negation Simon Harrison; Part IV. Gestures in Relation to Cognition: 18. The growth point David McNeill; 19. Gestures in cognition: actions that bridge the mind and the world Martha W. Alibali and Autumn B. Hostetter; 20. The neuroscience of gesture production Hedda Lausberg; 21. Gestures in learning and education Miriam A. Novack and Susan Goldin-Meadow; Part V. Gestures in Relation to Interaction: 22. Gesturing for the addressee Janet Bavelas; 23. Gesture and intersubjectivity Elena Clare Cuffari; 24. Variation in gesture: a sociocultural linguistic perspective Heather Brookes; 25. Communicative gesturing in interaction with robots Kristiina Jokinen; 26. Gestural interfaces in human-computer interaction Kashmiri Stec and Lars Bo Larsen.

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Alan Cienki is Professor of Language Use & Cognition and English Linguistics at Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. He is the author of Ten Lectures on Spoken Language and Gesture (2017) and co-editor of Metaphor and Gesture (2008) and the two-volume handbook Body–Language–Communication (2013, 2014).

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