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Gesture in the communicative ecology of a South African township

  • Heather Brookes
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From Gesture in Conversation to Visible Action as Utterance
Ein Kapitel aus dem Buch From Gesture in Conversation to Visible Action as Utterance

Abstract

In his work among Neapolitans, Kendon asks why a particular gesture profile should have come to exist. He suggests investigating communicative styles from historical and ecological perspectives to explain how different cultural patterns of communication develop and are sustained. This chapter explores gesturing in the communicative ecology of a South African township. It examines the nature of gestures, their communicative and social functions, how cultural norms of conduct and the physical environment influence gestural behaviour, and how gestural behaviours index different social meanings that are shaped by social structures and the history of South African township life. It compares South African township life and Naples identifying common factors that may have given rise to similar gestural behaviour in both communities.

Abstract

In his work among Neapolitans, Kendon asks why a particular gesture profile should have come to exist. He suggests investigating communicative styles from historical and ecological perspectives to explain how different cultural patterns of communication develop and are sustained. This chapter explores gesturing in the communicative ecology of a South African township. It examines the nature of gestures, their communicative and social functions, how cultural norms of conduct and the physical environment influence gestural behaviour, and how gestural behaviours index different social meanings that are shaped by social structures and the history of South African township life. It compares South African township life and Naples identifying common factors that may have given rise to similar gestural behaviour in both communities.

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. A foreword vii
  4. From gesture in conversation to visible action as utterance 1
  5. Part I. Gaze and face
  6. Including facial gestures in gesture-speech ensembles 15
  7. Mutual gaze and recognition 35
  8. Part II. Manual gestures – quotable gestures and pointing
  9. Gesture in the communicative ecology of a South African township 59
  10. The emblem as metaphor 75
  11. Pointing, talk, and the bodies 95
  12. Part III. Manual gestures – their nature and relationship to language
  13. Gesture as “deliberate expressive movement” 127
  14. On the lower limit of gesture 153
  15. Part IV. Language evolution
  16. The word according to Adam 177
  17. The intelligibility of gesture within a framework of co-operative action 199
  18. Part V. Sign systems
  19. Signs and space in Arandic sand narratives 219
  20. Different strokes 245
  21. Gesture in all its forms 289
  22. Part VI. Children language development
  23. The development of two pragmatic gestures of the so-called Open Hand Supine family in Italian children 311
  24. How gestures help children to track reference in narrative 331
  25. Gestures and multimodal development 351
  26. Name index 371
  27. Subject index 373
https://doi.org/10.1075/z.188.04bro

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  1. Prelim pages i
  2. Table of contents v
  3. A foreword vii
  4. From gesture in conversation to visible action as utterance 1
  5. Part I. Gaze and face
  6. Including facial gestures in gesture-speech ensembles 15
  7. Mutual gaze and recognition 35
  8. Part II. Manual gestures – quotable gestures and pointing
  9. Gesture in the communicative ecology of a South African township 59
  10. The emblem as metaphor 75
  11. Pointing, talk, and the bodies 95
  12. Part III. Manual gestures – their nature and relationship to language
  13. Gesture as “deliberate expressive movement” 127
  14. On the lower limit of gesture 153
  15. Part IV. Language evolution
  16. The word according to Adam 177
  17. The intelligibility of gesture within a framework of co-operative action 199
  18. Part V. Sign systems
  19. Signs and space in Arandic sand narratives 219
  20. Different strokes 245
  21. Gesture in all its forms 289
  22. Part VI. Children language development
  23. The development of two pragmatic gestures of the so-called Open Hand Supine family in Italian children 311
  24. How gestures help children to track reference in narrative 331
  25. Gestures and multimodal development 351
  26. Name index 371
  27. Subject index 373
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