137. Pointing by hand: Types of reference and their influence on gestural form

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. VI. Gestures across cultures
4. 73. Gestures in South Africa 1147
5. 74. Gestures in the Sub-Saharan region 1154
6. 75. Gestures in West Africa: Left hand taboo in Ghana 1161
7. 76. Gestures in West Africa: Wolof 1169
8. 77. Gestures in South America: Spanish and Portuguese 1175
9. 78. Gestures in South American indigenous cultures 1182
10. 79. Gestures in native South America: Ancash Quechua 1193
11. 80. Gestures in native Mexico and Central America: The Mayan cultures 1206
12. 81. Gestures in native Northern America: Bimodal talk in Arapaho 1215
13. 82. Gestures in Southwest India: Dance theater 1226
14. 83. Gestures in China: Universal and culturally specific characteristics 1233
15. 84. Gestures and body language in Southern Europe: Italy 1240
16. 85. Gestures in Southern Europe: Children’s pragmatic gestures in Italy 1253
17. 86. Gestures in Southwest Europe: Portugal 1259
18. 87. Gestures in Southwest Europe: Catalonia 1266
19. 88. Gestures in Western Europe: France 1272
20. 89. Gestures in Northern Europe: Children’s gestures in Sweden 1282
21. 90. Gestures in Northeast Europe: Russia, Poland, Croatia, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia 1289
22. VII. Body movements – Functions, contexts, and interactions
23. 91. Body posture and movement in interaction: Participation management 1301
24. 92. Proxemics and axial orientation 1310
25. 93. The role of gaze in conversational interaction 1324
26. 94. Categories and functions of posture, gaze, face, and body movements 1333
27. 95. Facial expression and social interaction 1342
28. 96. Gestures, postures, gaze, and movement in work and organization 1349
29. 97. Gesture and conversational units 1360
30. 98. The interactive design of gestures 1368
31. 99. Gestures and mimicry 1375
32. 100. Gesture and prosody 1381
33. 101. Structuring discourse: Observations on prosody and gesture in Russian TV-discourse 1392
34. 102. Body movements in political discourse 1400
35. 103. Gestures in industrial settings 1413
36. 104. Identification and interpretation of co-speech gestures in technical systems 1419
37. 105. Gestures, postures, gaze, and other body movements in the 2nd language classroom interaction 1426
38. 106. Bodily interaction (of interpreters) in music performance 1432
39. 107. Gestures in the theater 1440
40. 108. Contemporary classification systems 1453
41. 109. Co-speech gestures: Structures and functions 1461
42. 110. Emblems or quotable gestures: Structures, categories, and functions 1474
43. 111. Semantics and pragmatics of symbolic gestures 1481
44. 112. Head shakes: Variation in form, function, and cultural distribution of a head movement related to “no” 1496
45. 113. Gestures in dictionaries: Physical contact gestures 1502
46. 114. Ring-gestures across cultures and times: Dimensions of variation 1511
47. 115. Gesture and taboo: A cross-cultural perspective 1523
48. VIII. Gesture and language
49. 116. Pragmatic gestures 1531
50. 117. Pragmatic and metaphoric – combining functional with cognitive approaches in the analysis of the “brushing aside gesture” 1540
51. 118. Recurrent gestures 1558
52. 119. A repertoire of German recurrent gestures with pragmatic functions 1575
53. 120. The family of Away gestures: Negation, refusal, and negative assessment 1592
54. 121. The cyclic gesture 1605
55. 122. Kinesthemes: Morphological complexity in co-speech gestures 1618
56. 123. Gesture families and gestural fields 1630
57. 124. Repetitions in gesture 1641
58. 125. Syntactic complexity in co-speech gestures: Constituency and recursion 1650
59. 126. Creating multimodal utterances: The linear integration of gestures into speech 1662
60. 127. Gestures and location in English 1677
61. 128. Gestural modes of representation as techniques of depiction 1687
62. 129. Levels of abstraction 1702
63. 130. Gestures and iconicity 1712
64. 131. Iconic and representational gestures 1732
65. 132. Gestures and metonymy 1747
66. 133. Ways of viewing metaphor in gesture 1766
67. 134. The conceptualization of time in gesture 1781
68. 135. Between reference and meaning: Object-related and interpretant-related gestures in face-to-face interaction 1788
69. 136. Deixis, gesture, and embodiment from a linguistic point of view 1803
70. 137. Pointing by hand: Types of reference and their influence on gestural form 1824
71. IX. Embodiment – The body and its role for cognition, emotion, and communication
72. 138. Gestures and cognitive development 1833
73. 139. Embodied cognition and word acquisition: The challenge of abstract words 1841
74. 140. The blossoming of children’s multimodal skills from 1 to 4 years old 1848
75. 141. Gestures before language: The use of baby signs 1857
76. 142. Gestures and second language acquisition 1868
77. 143. Further changes in L2 Thinking for Speaking? 1875
78. 144. Gesture and the neuropsychology of language 1886
79. 145. Gestures in aphasia 1898
80. 146. Body movements and mental illness: Alterations of movement behavior associated with eating disorders, schizophrenia, and depression 1905
81. 147. Bodily communication and deception 1913
82. 148. Multimodal discourse comprehension 1922
83. 149. Cognitive operations that take place in the Perception-Action Loop 1929
84. 150. Gesture and working memory 1936
85. 151. Body movements in robotics 1943
86. 152. Gestures, postures, gaze, and movements in computer science: Embodied agents 1948
87. 153. The psychology of gestures and gesture-like movements in non-human primates 1955
88. 154. An evolutionary perspective on facial behavior 1962
89. 155. On the consequences of living without facial expression 1969
90. 156. Multimodal forms of expressing emotions: The case of interjections 1982
91. 157. Some issues in the semiotics of gesture: The perspective of comparative semiotics 1989
92. 158. Embodied meaning, inside and out: The coupling of gesture and mental simulation 2000
93. 159. Embodied and distributed contexts of collaborative remembering 2008
94. 160. Living bodies: Co-enacting experience 2016
95. 161. Aproprioception, gesture, and cognitive being 2026
96. 162. Embodying audio-visual media: Concepts and transdisciplinary perspectives 2048
97. 163. Cinematic communication and embodiment 2061
98. 164. The discovery of the acting body 2070
99. 165. Expressive movements in audio-visual media: Modulating affective experience 2081
100. 166. Expressive movement and metaphoric meaning making in audio-visual media 2092
101. 167. Gesture as interactive expressive movement: Inter-affectivity in face-to-face communication 2112
102. X. Sign language – Visible body movements as language
103. 168. Linguistic structures in a manual modality: Phonology and morphology in sign languages 2127
104. 169. The grammaticalization of gestures in sign languages 2133
105. 170. Nonmanual gestures in sign languages 2149
106. 171. Enactment as a (signed) language communicative strategy 2163
107. 172. Gestures in sign language 2170
108. Appendix: Organizations, links, reference publications, and periodicals 2177
109. Indices 2179