7 Gesture, sign languages and multimodality

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. List of figures XI
5. List of tables XIII
6. Part I: Outlining anthropological linguistics
7. 1 Studying the relationship of language and culture: Scope and directions 3
8. Part II: Fields of research
9. 2 Language acquisition and language socialization 33
10. 3 Language endangerment and reclamation 53
11. 4 Emerging languages and the creation of new communicative styles 77
12. 5 Language ideologies and social identities 101
13. 6 Conversational organization and genre 127
14. 7 Gesture, sign languages and multimodality 159
15. 8 On ritual speech: Epistemologies, history, and the social order 197
16. 9 The unspoken 217
17. 10 Social indexicality 237
18. 11 Time: Sociocultural structuring beyond the spatialization paradigm 275
19. 12 Emotional language: A brief history of recent research 307
20. Part III: Areal perspectives
21. 13 Research on language and culture in Africa 339
22. 14 Native North America: Notes towards a dialogical ethnopoetics 385
23. 15 Perspectivism through language: A view from Amazonia 425
24. 16 Recent research on language and culture in Australia and Oceania 443
25. 17 Language and culture in Mainland Southeast Asia 471
26. 18 Research on language and culture in Europe 499
27. Part IV: Outlook
28. 19 The language-culture dimension: A space for challenges and opportunities 537
29. About the contributors 545
30. Index 553