Gesture

Volume 16, Issue 2 (2017)

2017. iv, 214 pp.

Publishing status: Available
Published online on 12 January 2018

© John Benjamins Publishing Company

https://doi.org/10.1075/gest.16.2

Table of Contents

Articles

Pragmatic functions of gestures: Some observations on the history of their study and their nature

Adam Kendon | pp. 157–175
Foreground gesture, background gesture

Kensy Cooperrider | pp. 176–202
Embodied frames and scenes: Body-based metonymy and pragmatic inferencing in gesture

Irene Mittelberg | pp. 203–244
Discourse management gestures

Elisabeth Wehling | pp. 245–276
How recurrent gestures mean: Conventionalized contexts-of-use and embodied motivation

Cornelia Müller | pp. 277–304
Sign-creation in the Seattle DeafBlind community: A triumphant story about the regeneration of obviousness

Terra Edwards | pp. 305–328
Performing gesture: The pragmatic functions of pantomimic and lexical repertoires in a natural sign narrative

E. Mara Green | pp. 329–363
New and recent publications

pp. 364–366

Noteses

Subjects

Main BIC Subject

CF: Linguistics

Main BISAC Subject

LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General