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Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p.369-388) and index.
Contents
The domain of gesture -- Visible action as gesture -- Western interest in gesture from classical antiquity to the eighteenth century -- Four contributions from the nineteenth century: Andrea de Jorio, Edward Tylor, Garrick Mallery and Wilhelm Wundt -- Gesture studies in the twentieth century: recession and return -- Classifying gestures -- Gesture units, gesture phrases and speech -- Deployments of gesture in the utterance -- Gesture and speech in semantic interaction -- Gesture and referential meaning -- On pointing -- Gestures of ’precision grip’: topic, comment and question markers -- Two gesture families of the open hand -- Gesture without speech: the emergence of kinesic codes -- ’Gesture’ and ’sign’ on common ground -- Gesture, culture and the communication economy -- The status of gesture -- Transcription conventions -- The recordings.
ISBN
0521835259 (hardback)
9780521835251 (hardback)
0521542936 (pbk.)
9780521542937 (pbk.)
Subject
Gesture. Gebaren. Taal. Gestes. Linguagem corporal.
