The Cambridge Handbook of Gesture Studies

doi:10.1017/9781108638869

The study of gesture-the movements people make with their hands when talking-has grown into a well-established field and research is still being pushed into exciting new directions. Bringing together a team of leading scholars, this Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of gesture studies, combining historical overviews as well as current, concise snapshots of state-of-the-art, multidisciplinary research. Organised into five thematic parts, it considers the roles of both psychological and interactional processes in gesture use, and considers the status of gesture in relation to language. Attention is given to different theoretical and methodological frameworks for studying gesture, including semiotic, linguistic, cognitive, developmental, and phenomenological theories and observational, experimental, corpus linguistic, ethnographic, and computational methods. It also contains practical guidelines for gesture analysis along with surveys of empirical research. Wide ranging yet accessible, it is essential reading for academic researchers and students in linguistics and cognitive sciences.

‘Not long ago, gestures of the hand were considered of little interest, an ornament to humanity’s seemingly greater achievement, speech. This wide-ranging handbook demonstrates how profoundly this has changed. Gestures are studied in multiple disciplines, with a multitude of methods, and offer ever new insights into the nature, variety, and evolution of symbolic interaction, cooperation, and embodied cognition.’

Jürgen Streeck - The University of Texas at Austin

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The Cambridge Handbook of Gesture Studies
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Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics - Series page
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The Cambridge Handbook of Gesture Studies - Title page
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Copyright page
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Contents
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Figures
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Tables
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Contributors
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Introduction
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- By Alan Cienki
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Part I - Gestural Types: Forms and Functions
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1 - Emblems
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- By Lluís Payrató
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2 - Recurrent Gestures: Cultural, Individual, and Linguistic Dimensions of Meaning-Making
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- By Silva H. Ladewig
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3 - Iconicity, Schematicity, and Representation in Gesture
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- By Irene Mittelberg, Jennifer Hinnell
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4 - Indexicality, Deixis, and Space in Gesture
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- By Ellen Fricke
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5 - From the Neck Up: Facial Gestures in Dialogue
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- By Nicole Chovil
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Part II - Ways of Approaching Gesture Analysis
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6 - Contributions to the Study of Visible Action as Utterance: A Fifty-Year Retrospective
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- By Adam Kendon
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7 - Systems of Gesture Coding and Annotation
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- By Jana Bressem
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8 - A Toolbox of Methods for Gesture Analysis
pp 182-216
- By Cornelia Müller
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9 - The Gestural Sign: A Concrete and Reasoned Analysis of Co-Speech Gesture
pp 217-248
- By Geneviève Calbris, Mary M. Copple
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10 - Creation and Analysis of the Multimedia Russian Corpus for Gesture Research
pp 249-272
- By Ekaterina Rakhilina, Alan Cienki
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11 - A Kinesiological Approach to Gesture Analysis
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- By Dominique Boutet, Alan Cienki
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12 - Motion-Tracking Technology for the Study of Gesture
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- By James Trujillo
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Part III - Gestures and Language
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13 - The Role of Gesture in Debates on the Origins of Language
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- By Przemysław Źywiczyński, Jordan Zlatev
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14 - Gesture and First Language Development: The Multimodal Child
pp 368-397
- By Aliyah Morgenstern
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15 - Gesture and Second/Foreign Language Acquisition
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- By Marianne Gullberg
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16 - Gesture and Sign Language
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- By Sherman Wilcox
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17 - On Grammar–Gesture Relations: Gestures Associated with Negation
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- By Simon Harrison
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Part IV - Gestures in Relation to Cognition
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