From Gesture in Conversation to Visible Action as Utterance

Essays in honor of Adam Kendon

Editors

Mandana Seyfeddinipur | SOAS, University of London

Marianne Gullberg | Lund University

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Language use is fundamentally multimodal. Speakers use their hands to point to locations, to represent content and to comment on ongoing talk; they position their bodies to show their orientation and stance in interaction; they use facial displays to comment on what is being said; and they engage in mutual gaze to establish intersubjectivity. This volume brings together studies by leading scholars from several fields on gaze and facial displays, on the relationship between gestures, sign, and language, on pointing and other conventionalized forms of manual expression, on gestures and language evolution, and on gestures in child development. The papers in this collection honor Adam Kendon whose pioneering work has laid the theoretical and methodological foundations for contemporary studies of multimodality, gestures, and utterance visible action.

[Not in series, 188] 2014. ix, 379 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/z.188

Table of Contents

A foreword | pp. vii–viii

From gesture in conversation to visible action as utterance

Mandana Seyfeddinipur and Marianne Gullberg | pp. 1–12

Part I. Gaze and face

Including facial gestures in gesture-speech ensembles

Janet Bavelas, Jennifer Gerwing and Sara Healing | pp. 15–34

Mutual gaze and recognition: Revisiting Kendon’s “Gaze direction in two-person conversation”

Jürgen Streeck | pp. 35–56

Part II. Manual gestures – quotable gestures and pointing

Gesture in the communicative ecology of a South African township

Heather Brookes | pp. 59–74

The emblem as metaphor

David McNeill | pp. 75–94

Pointing, talk, and the bodies: Reference and joint attention as embodied interactional achievements

Lorenza Mondada | pp. 95–124

Part III. Manual gestures – their nature and relationship to language

Gesture as “deliberate expressive movement”

Cornelia Müller | pp. 127–152

On the lower limit of gesture

Mats Andrén | pp. 153–174

Part IV. Language evolution

The word according to Adam: The role of gesture in language evolution

Michael C. Corballis | pp. 177–198

The intelligibility of gesture within a framework of co-operative action

Charles Goodwin | pp. 199–216

Part V. Sign systems

Signs and space in Arandic sand narratives

Jennifer Green | pp. 219–243

Different strokes: Gesture phrases and gesture units in a family homesign from Chiapas, Mexico

John B. Haviland | pp. 245–288

Gesture in all its forms: Following in the footsteps of Adam Kendon

Susan Goldin-Meadow | pp. 289–308

Part VI. Children language development

The development of two pragmatic gestures of the so-called Open Hand Supine family in Italian children

Maria Graziano | pp. 311–330

How gestures help children to track reference in narrative

Carla Cristilli | pp. 331–350

Gestures and multimodal development: Some key issues for language acquisition

Michèle Guidetti, Kateřina Fibigerová and Jean-Marc Colletta | pp. 351–370

Name index | pp. 371–372

Subject index | pp. 373–379

“Adam Kendon is one of the key pioneers of interaction and gesture studies. In this exciting volume honouring his work, nearly every facet of his research – from facial to manual gestures, sign language to language evolution – is investigated and pushed into new territory by an outstanding group of international scholars. All students of gesture and interaction will want a copy of this book on their desks.”

Stephen C. Levinson, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen

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Gast, Volker

2023. The Temporal Alignment of Speech-Accompanying Eyebrow Movement and Voice Pitch: A Study Based on Late Night Show Interviews. Behavioral Sciences 13:1 ► pp. 52 ff.

Green, Jennifer

2016. Multimodal complexity in sand story narratives. Narrative Inquiry 26:2 ► pp. 312 ff.

Müller, Cornelia

2022. Obituary. Gesture 21:2-3 ► pp. 157 ff.

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