49. How our gestures help us learn

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. I. How the body relates to language and communication: Outlining the subject matter
5. 1. Exploring the utterance roles of visible bodily action: A personal account 7
6. 2. Gesture as a window onto mind and brain, and the relationship to linguistic relativity and ontogenesis 28
7. 3. Gestures and speech from a linguistic perspective: A new field and its history 55
8. 4. Emblems, quotable gestures, or conventionalized body movements 82
9. 5. Framing, grounding, and coordinating conversational interaction: Posture, gaze, facial expression, and movement in space 100
10. 6. Homesign: When gesture is called upon to be language 113
11. 7. Speech, sign, and gesture 125
12. II. Perspectives from different disciplines
13. 8. The growth point hypothesis of language and gesture as a dynamic and integrated system 135
14. 9. Psycholinguistics of speech and gesture: Production, comprehension, architecture 156
15. 10. Neuropsychology of gesture production 168
16. 11. Cognitive Linguistics: Spoken language and gesture as expressions of conceptualization 182
17. 12. Gestures as a medium of expression: The linguistic potential of gestures 202
18. 13. Conversation analysis: Talk and bodily resources for the organization of social interaction 218
19. 14. Ethnography: Body, communication, and cultural practices 227
20. 15. Cognitive Anthropology: Distributed cognition and gesture 240
21. 16. Social psychology: Body and language in social interaction 258
22. 17. Multimodal (inter)action analysis: An integrative methodology 275
23. 18. Body gestures, manners, and postures in literature 287
24. III. Historical dimensions
25. 19. Prehistoric gestures: Evidence from artifacts and rock art 301
26. 20. Indian traditions: A grammar of gestures in classical dance and dance theatre 306
27. 21. Jewish traditions: Active gestural practices in religious life 320
28. 22. The body in rhetorical delivery and in theater: An overview of classical works 329
29. 23. Medieval perspectives in Europe: Oral culture and bodily practices 343
30. 24. Renaissance philosophy: Gesture as universal language 364
31. 25. Enlightenment philosophy: Gestures, language, and the origin of human understanding 378
32. 26. 20th century: Empirical research of body, language, and communication 393
33. 27. Language – gesture – code: Patterns of movement in artistic dance from the Baroque until today 416
34. 28. Communicating with dance: A historiography of aesthetic and anthropological reflections on the relation between dance, language, and representation 427
35. 29. Mimesis: The history of a notion 438
36. IV. Contemporary approaches
37. 30. Mirror systems and the neurocognitive substrates of bodily communication and language 451
38. 31. Gesture as precursor to speech in evolution 466
39. 32. The co-evolution of gesture and speech, and downstream consequences 480
40. 33. Sensorimotor simulation in speaking, gesturing, and understanding 512
41. 34. Levels of embodiment and communication 533
42. 35. Body and speech as expression of inner states 551
43. 36. Fused Bodies: On the interrelatedness of cognition and interaction 564
44. 37. Multimodal interaction 577
45. 38. Verbal, vocal, and visual practices in conversational interaction 589
46. 39. The codes and functions of nonverbal communication 609
47. 40. Mind, hands, face, and body: A sketch of a goal and belief view of multimodal communication 627
48. 41. Nonverbal communication in a functional pragmatic perspective 648
49. 42. Elements of meaning in gesture: The analogical links 658
50. 43. Praxeology of gesture 674
51. 44. A “Composite Utterances” approach to meaning 45. Towards a grammar of gestures: A form-based view 689
52. 45. Towards a grammar of gestures: A form-based view 707
53. 46. Towards a unified grammar of gesture and speech: A multimodal approach 733
54. 47. The exbodied mind: Cognitive-semiotic principles as motivating forces in gesture 755
55. 48. Articulation as gesture: Gesture and the nature of language 785
56. 49. How our gestures help us learn 792
57. 50. Coverbal gestures: Between communication and speech production 804
58. 51. The social interactive nature of gestures: Theory, assumptions, methods, and findings 821
59. V. Methods
60. 52. Experimental methods in co-speech gesture research 837
61. 53. Documentation of gestures with motion capture 857
62. 54. Documentation of gestures with data gloves 868
63. 55. Reliability and validity of coding systems for bodily forms of communication 879
64. 56. Sequential notation and analysis for bodily forms of communication 892
65. 57. Decoding bodily forms of communication 904
66. 58. Analysing facial expression using the facial action coding system (FACS) 917
67. 59. Coding psychopathology in movement behavior: The movement psychodiagnostic inventory 932
68. 60. Laban based analysis and notation of body movement 941
69. 61. Kestenberg movement analysis 958
70. 62. Doing fieldwork on the body, language, and communication 974
71. 63. Video as a tool in the social sciences 982
72. 64. Approaching notation, coding, and analysis from a conversational analysis point of view 992
73. 65. Transcribing gesture with speech 1007
74. 66. Multimodal annotation tools 1015
75. 67. NEUROGES – A coding system for the empirical analysis of hand movement behaviour as a reflection of cognitive, emotional, and interactive processes 1022
76. 68. Transcription systems for gestures, speech, prosody, postures, and gaze 1037
77. 69. A linguistic perspective on the notation of gesture phases 1060
78. 70. A linguistic perspective on the notation of form features in gestures 1079
79. 71. Linguistic Annotation System for Gestures 1098
80. 72. Transcription systems for sign languages: A sketch of the different graphical representations of sign language and their characteristics 1125