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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      07 August 2018
      23 August 2018
      ISBN:
      9781108265065
      9781108417204
      9781108404693
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108265065
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.52kg, 248 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.38kg, 252 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Sign Language, Psychology, Cognition, Language and Linguistics
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    Gestures are central to the way people use language when they interact. This book places our impulse to gesture at the very heart of linguistic structure: grammar. Based on the phenomenon of negation - a linguistic universal with clear grammatical and gestural manifestations - Simon Harrison argues that linguistic concepts are fundamentally multi modal and shows how they lead to recurrent bindings between grammar and gesture when people speak. Studying how speakers express negation multi modally in a range of social and professional contexts, Harrison explores how and when people gesture, what people achieve linguistically and discursively with their gestures, and why we find similar uses of gesture in different languages (including spoken and signed language). Establishing the inseparability of grammar and gesture, this book is an important reference for any researcher interested in the relation between language, gesture, and cognition.

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    'Harrison’s book offers an excellent example for how multimodal language use can be approached with a focus on grammatical phenomena. Numerous nicely discussed examples and a well-grounded discussion of theoretical and methodological aspects for such an endeavor make the book attractive to students as well as advanced scholars interested in a usage-based perspective on multimodal language use.'

    Jana Bressem Source: Journal of Pragmatics

    ‘… this book can be appreciated by anyone interested in any form linguistics and communication. The author does an incredible job to thoroughly make his case, addressing all the key constructs of cospeech gesticulation chapter by chapter, and in a way that is accessible to novices, and informative to scientists and linguistics alike.'

    J. Raouf Belkhir and Eduardo Navarrete Source: Perception

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