A foreword

Chapters in this book

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