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Gesture and the Dynamic Dimension of Language
Essays in honor of David McNeill
Edited by Susan D. Duncan, Justine Cassell and Elena T. LevyUniversity of Chicago / Northwestern University / University of Connecticut - Stamford
2007. vi, 328 pp.
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Each of the 21 chapters in this volume reflects a view of language as a dynamic phenomenon with emergent structure, and in each, gesture is approached as part of language, not an adjunct to it. In this, all of the authors have been influenced by David McNeill's methods for studying natural discourse and by his theory of the human capacity for language. The introductory chapter by Adam Kendon contextualizes McNeill’s research paradigm within a history of earlier gesture studies. Chapters in the first section, Language and Cognition, emphasize what McNeill refers to as the intrapersonal plane. Many of the chapters adduce evidence for McNeill's claim that gestures can serve as a window onto the speaker's mind. Chapters in the second section, Environmental Context and Sociality, emphasize the interpersonal plane and exemplify McNeill's focus on how moment-to-moment language use is determined by contextual factors. The final section of the volume, Atypical Minds and Bodies, concerns lessons to be learned from studies of aphasic patients, autistic children, and artificial humans.
Table of contents
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1 Introduction: The Dynamic Dimension of Language
Elena T. Levy, Susan D. Duncan and Justine Cassell
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2 On the Origins of Modern Gesture Studies
Adam Kendon
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3 Gesture with Speech and Without it
Susan Goldin-Meadow
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4 From Gestures to Signs in the Acquisition of Sign Language
Nini Hoiting and Dan I. Slobin
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5 How does Spoken Language Shape Iconic Gestures?
Sotaro Kita and Aslı Özyürek
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6 Forgetful or Strategic? The Mystery of the Systematic Avoidance of Reference in the Cartoon Story Narrative
Nobuhiro Furuyama and Kazuki Sekine
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7 Metagesture: An Analysis of Theoretical Discourse about Multimodal Language
Fey Parrill
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8 Potential Cognitive Universals: Evidence from Head Movements in Turkana
Evelyn McClave
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9 Blending in Deception: Tracing Output Back to its Source
Amy Franklin
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10 A Dynamic View of Metaphor, Gesture and Thought
Cornelia Müller
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11 Second Language Acquisition from a McNeillian Perspective
Gale Stam
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12 Face-to-face Dialogue as a Micro-social Context: The Example of Motor Mimicry
Janet Bavelas
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13 Master Speakers, Master Gesturers: A String Quarter Master Class
John B. Haviland
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14 Constructing Spatial Conceptualizations from Limited Input: Evidence from Norwegian Sign Language
Scott K. Liddell and Marit Vogt-Svendsen
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15 Environmentally Coupled Gestures
Charles Goodwin
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16 Indexing Locations in Gesture: Recalled Stimulus Image and Interspeaker Coordination as Factors Influencing Gesture Form
Irene Kimbara
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17 The Role of Iconic Gesture in Semantic Communication and its Theoretical and Practical Implications
Geoffrey Beattie and Heather Shovelton
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18 Intersubjectivity in Gestures: The Speaker's Perspective toward the Addressee
Mika Ishino
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19 An Integrated Approach to the Study of Convention, Conflict, and Compliance in Interaction
Starkey Duncan
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20 Discourse Focus, Gesture, and Disfluent Aphasia
Susan D. Duncan and Laura Pedelty
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21 The Construction of a Temporally Coherent Narrative by an Autistic Adolescent: Co-contributions of Speech, Enactment and Gesture
Elena T. Levy
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22 The Body in Communication: Lessons from the Near-Human
Justine Cassell
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Index
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“I would recommend the book to students and other scholars who want to become acquainted with the research done on the relationship between gesture and language. [...] The book also raises big issues that are important for understanding grammar (syntax, pragmatics and semantics). It opens up new horizons for linguistic research by challenging and renegotiating many generally held assumptions about the nature of language. ”
Pentti Haddington, University of Oulu, Finland, on Linguist List Vol. 19.1504 (2008)
“[...] anyone currently in the field of cognitive science or considering entering the field will find the book valuable. [...] For those of you who enjoy thinking about language and enjoy thinking about thinking, you may find this a pleasurable and enduring consequence of having read the book.”
In PsycCRITIQUES, American Psychological Association, The Dialectic Relationship Between Language and Gesture
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