Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 The domain of gesture
- 2 Visible action as gesture
- 3 Western interest in gesture from Classical Antiquity to the eighteenth century
- 4 Four contributions from the nineteenth century: Andrea de Jorio, Edward Tylor, Garrick Mallery and Wilhelm Wundt
- 5 Gesture studies in the twentieth century: recession and return
- 6 Classifying gestures
- 7 Gesture units, gesture phrases and speech
- 8 Deployments of gesture in the utterance
- 9 Gesture and speech in semantic interaction
- 10 Gesture and referential meaning
- 11 On pointing
- 12 Gestures of ‘precision grip’: topic, comment and question markers
- 13 Two gesture families of the open hand
- 14 Gesture without speech: the emergence of kinesic codes
- 15 ‘Gesture’ and ‘sign’ on common ground
- 16 Gesture, culture and the communication economy
- 17 The status of gesture
- Appendix I Transcription conventions
- Appendix II The recordings
- References
- Index
References
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2015
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 The domain of gesture
- 2 Visible action as gesture
- 3 Western interest in gesture from Classical Antiquity to the eighteenth century
- 4 Four contributions from the nineteenth century: Andrea de Jorio, Edward Tylor, Garrick Mallery and Wilhelm Wundt
- 5 Gesture studies in the twentieth century: recession and return
- 6 Classifying gestures
- 7 Gesture units, gesture phrases and speech
- 8 Deployments of gesture in the utterance
- 9 Gesture and speech in semantic interaction
- 10 Gesture and referential meaning
- 11 On pointing
- 12 Gestures of ‘precision grip’: topic, comment and question markers
- 13 Two gesture families of the open hand
- 14 Gesture without speech: the emergence of kinesic codes
- 15 ‘Gesture’ and ‘sign’ on common ground
- 16 Gesture, culture and the communication economy
- 17 The status of gesture
- Appendix I Transcription conventions
- Appendix II The recordings
- References
- Index
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- GestureVisible Action as Utterance, pp. 369 - 388Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2004