Chapter 26. Handjabber

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Part I. Nature and functions of gestures
4. Chapter 1. Introduction 3
5. Chapter 2. Addressing the problems of intentionality and granularity in non-human primate gesture 15
6. Chapter 3. Birth of a Morph 27
7. Chapter 4. Dyadic evidence for grounding with abstract deictic gestures 49
8. Chapter 5. If you don’t already know, I’m certainly not going to show you! 61
9. Chapter 6. Measuring the formal diversity of hand gestures by their hamming distance 75
10. Chapter 7. ‘Parallel gesturing’ in adult-child conversations 89
11. Part II. First language development and gesture
12. Chapter 8. Sentences and conversations before speech? 105
13. Chapter 9. Giving a nod to social cognition 121
14. Chapter 10. Sensitivity of maternal gesture to interlocutor and context 137
15. Chapter 11. The organization of children’s pointing stroke endpoints 153
16. Chapter 12. Is there an iconic gesture spurt at 26 months? 163
17. Chapter 13. The development of spatial perspective in the description of large-scale environments 175
18. Chapter 14. Learning to use gesture in narratives 187
19. Chapter 15. The changing role of gesture form and function in a picture book interaction between a child with autism and his support teacher 201
20. Part III. Second language effects on gesture
21. Chapter 16. A cross-linguistic study of verbal and gestural descriptions in French and Japanese monolingual and bilingual children 219
22. Chapter 17. Gesture and language shift on the Uruguayan-Brazilian border 231
23. Part IV. Gesture in the classroom and in problem-solving
24. Chapter 18. Seeing the graph vs. being the graph 245
25. Chapter 19. How gesture use enables intersubjectivity in the classroom 257
26. Chapter 20. Microgenesis of gestures during mental rotation tasks recapitulates ontogenesis 267
27. Part V. Gesture aspects of discourse and interaction
28. Chapter 21. Gesture and discourse 279
29. Chapter 22. Speakers’ use of ‘action’ and ‘entity’ gestures with definite and indefinite references 293
30. Chapter 23. “Voices” and bodies 309
31. Chapter 24. Gestures in overlap 321
32. Part VI. Gestural analysis of music and dance
33. Chapter 25. Music and leadership 341
34. Chapter 26. Handjabber 355
35. Name index 365
36. Subject index 367