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Body - Language - Communication

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2013

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Volume 38/1 | Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft / Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science [HSK]

About this book

Volume I of the handbook presents contemporary, multidisciplinary, historical, theoretical, and methodological aspects of how body movements relate to language. It documents how leading scholars from differenct disciplinary backgrounds conceptualize and analyze this complex relationship. Five chapters and a total of 72 articles, present current and past approaches, including multidisciplinary methods of analysis. The chapters cover:

I. How the body relates to language and communication: Outlining the subject matter,
II. Perspectives from different disciplines,
III. Historical dimensions,
IV. Contemporary approaches,
V. Methods.

Authors include: Michael Arbib, Janet Bavelas, Marino Bonaiuto, Paul Bouissac, Judee Burgoon, Martha Davis, Susan Duncan, Konrad Ehlich, Nick Enfield, Pierre Feyereisen, Raymond W. Gibbs, Susan Goldin-Meadow, Uri Hadar, Adam Kendon, Antja Kennedy, David McNeill, Lorenza Mondada, Fernando Poyatos, Klaus Scherer, Margret Selting, Jürgen Streeck, Sherman Wilcox, Jeffrey Wollock, Jordan Zlatev.

the first reference work of how body movements relate to language and communication
it presents current and past perspectives on multimodal communication from multidisciplinary perspectives
72 chapters by leading international scholars ranging from cognitive sciences to sign linguistics

Author / Editor information

Cornelia Müller, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany; Alan Cienki, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Ellen Fricke, Technische Universität Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany; Silva H. Ladewig, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany; David McNeill, University of Chicago, USA; Sedinha Teßendorf, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Introduction Cornelia Müller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
I. How the body relates to language and communication: Outlining the subject matter
1. Exploring the utterance roles of visible bodily action: A personal account Adam Kendon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	7
2. Gesture as a window onto mind and brain, and the relationship to linguistic relativity and ontogenesis David McNeill Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	28
3. Gestures and speech from a linguistic perspective: A new field and its history Cornelia Müller, Silva H. Ladewig and Jana Bressem Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	55
4. Emblems, quotable gestures, or conventionalized body movements Sedinha Teßendorf Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	82
5. Framing, grounding, and coordinating conversational interaction: Posture, gaze, facial expression, and movement in space Mardi Kidwell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	100
6. Homesign: When gesture is called upon to be language Susan Goldin-Meadow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	113
7. Speech, sign, and gesture Sherman Wilcox Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	125
II. Perspectives from different disciplines
8. The growth point hypothesis of language and gesture as a dynamic and integrated system David McNeill Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	135
9. Psycholinguistics of speech and gesture: Production, comprehension, architecture Pierre Feyereisen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	156
10. Neuropsychology of gesture production Hedda Lausberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	168
11. Cognitive Linguistics: Spoken language and gesture as expressions of conceptualization Alan Cienki Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	182
12. Gestures as a medium of expression: The linguistic potential of gestures Cornelia Müller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	202
13. Conversation analysis: Talk and bodily resources for the organization of social interaction Lorenza Mondada Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	218
14. Ethnography: Body, communication, and cultural practices Christian Meyer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	227
15. Cognitive Anthropology: Distributed cognition and gesture Robert F. Williams Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	240
16. Social psychology: Body and language in social interaction Marino Bonaiuto and Fridanna Maricchiolo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	258
17. Multimodal (inter)action analysis: An integrative methodology Sigrid Norris Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	275
18. Body gestures, manners, and postures in literature Fernando Poyatos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	287
III. Historical dimensions
19. Prehistoric gestures: Evidence from artifacts and rock art Paul Bouissac Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	301
20. Indian traditions: A grammar of gestures in classical dance and dance theatre Rajyashree Ramesh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	306
21. Jewish traditions: Active gestural practices in religious life Roman Katsman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	320
22. The body in rhetorical delivery and in theater: An overview of classical works Dorota Dutsch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	329
23. Medieval perspectives in Europe: Oral culture and bodily practices Dmitri Zakharine Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	343
24. Renaissance philosophy: Gesture as universal language Jeffrey Wollock Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	364
25. Enlightenment philosophy: Gestures, language, and the origin of human understanding Mary M. Copple Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	378
26. 20th century: Empirical research of body, language, and communication Jana Bressem Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	393
27. Language – gesture – code: Patterns of movement in artistic dance from the Baroque until today Susanne Foellmer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	416
28. Communicating with dance: A historiography of aesthetic and anthropological reflections on the relation between dance, language, and representation Yvonne Hardt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	427
29. Mimesis: The history of a notion Gunter Gebauer and Christoph Wulf Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	438
IV. Contemporary approaches
30. Mirror systems and the neurocognitive substrates of bodily communication and language Michael A. Arbib Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	451
31. Gesture as precursor to speech in evolution Michael C. Corballis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	466
32. The co-evolution of gesture and speech, and downstream consequences David McNeill Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	480
33. Sensorimotor simulation in speaking, gesturing, and understanding Marcus Perlman and Raymond W. Gibbs Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	512
34. Levels of embodiment and communication Jordan Zlatev Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	533
35. Body and speech as expression of inner states Eva Krumhuber, Susanne Kaiser, Kappas Arvid and Klaus R. Scherer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	551
36. Fused Bodies: On the interrelatedness of cognition and interaction Anders R. Hougaard and Gitte Rasmussen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	564
37. Multimodal interaction Lorenza Mondada Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	577
38. Verbal, vocal, and visual practices in conversational interaction Margret Selting Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	589
39. The codes and functions of nonverbal communication Judee K. Burgoon, Laura K. Guerrero and Cindy H. White Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	609
40. Mind, hands, face, and body: A sketch of a goal and belief view of multimodal communication Isabella Poggi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	627
41. Nonverbal communication in a functional pragmatic perspective Konrad Ehlich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	648
42. Elements of meaning in gesture: The analogical links Geneviève Calbris Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	658
43. Praxeology of gesture Jürgen Streeck Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	674
44. A “Composite Utterances” approach to meaning 45. Towards a grammar of gestures: A form-based view N. J. Enfield Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	689
45. Towards a grammar of gestures: A form-based view Cornelia Müller, Jana Bressem and Silva H. Ladewig Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	707
46. Towards a unified grammar of gesture and speech: A multimodal approach Ellen Fricke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	733
47. The exbodied mind: Cognitive-semiotic principles as motivating forces in gesture Irene Mittelberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	755
48. Articulation as gesture: Gesture and the nature of language Sherman Wilcox Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	785
49. How our gestures help us learn Susan Goldin-Meadow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	792
50. Coverbal gestures: Between communication and speech production Uri Hadar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	804
51. The social interactive nature of gestures: Theory, assumptions, methods, and findings Jennifer Gerwing and Janet Bavelas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	821
V. Methods
52. Experimental methods in co-speech gesture research Judith Holler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	837
53. Documentation of gestures with motion capture Thies Pfeiffer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	857
54. Documentation of gestures with data gloves Thies Pfeiffer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	868
55. Reliability and validity of coding systems for bodily forms of communication Augusto Gnisci, Fridanna Maricchiolo and Marino Bonaiuto Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	879
56. Sequential notation and analysis for bodily forms of communication Augusto Gnisci, Roger Bakeman and Fridanna Maricchiolo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	892
57. Decoding bodily forms of communication Fridanna Maricchiolo, Angiola Di Conza, Augusto Gnisci and Marino Bonaiuto Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	904
58. Analysing facial expression using the facial action coding system (FACS) Bridget M. Waller and Marcia Smith Pasqualini Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	917
59. Coding psychopathology in movement behavior: The movement psychodiagnostic inventory Martha Davis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	932
60. Laban based analysis and notation of body movement Antja Kennedy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	941
61. Kestenberg movement analysis Sabine C. Koch and K. Mark Sossin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	958
62. Doing fieldwork on the body, language, and communication N. J. Enfield Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	974
63. Video as a tool in the social sciences Lorenza Mondada Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	982
64. Approaching notation, coding, and analysis from a conversational analysis point of view Ulrike Bohle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	992
65. Transcribing gesture with speech Susan Duncan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1007
66. Multimodal annotation tools Susan Duncan, Katharina Rohlfing and Dan Loehr Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1015
67. NEUROGES – A coding system for the empirical analysis of hand movement behaviour as a reflection of cognitive, emotional, and interactive processes Hedda Lausberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1022
68. Transcription systems for gestures, speech, prosody, postures, and gaze Jana Bressem Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1037
69. A linguistic perspective on the notation of gesture phases Silva H. Ladewig and Jana Bressem Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1060
70. A linguistic perspective on the notation of form features in gestures Jana Bressem Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1079
71. Linguistic Annotation System for Gestures Jana Bressem, Silva H. Ladewig and Cornelia Müller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1098
72. Transcription systems for sign languages: A sketch of the different graphical representations of sign language and their characteristics Brigitte Garcia and Marie-Anne Sallandre Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1125

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eBook published on:

October 14, 2013

eBook ISBN:

9783110261318

Hardcover published on:

September 17, 2013

Hardcover ISBN:

9783110209624

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Front matter:

8

Main content:

1138

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110261318

eBook ISBN: 9783110261318

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Keywords for this book

Multimodal Communication; Embodiment

Audience(s) for this book

Practitioners in Visual Arts and Communication, Rhetorics, Speech Pathology, Dance, Design of Virtual Agents

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