The impulse to gesture where language, minds, and bodies intersect

"Gestures are central to the way people use language when they interact. This book places our impulse to gesture at the very heart of linguistic structure: grammar. Based on the phenomenon of negation - a linguistic universal with clear grammatical and gestural manifestations - Simon Harrison a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Harrison, Simon, 1981- autor (autor)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press [2018]
Colección:CUP ebooks.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b39769884*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The impulse to gesture: spontaneous but constrained
  • The grammar-gesture nexus: a mechanism for regularity in gesture
  • Sync points in speech: evidence of grammatical affiliation for gesture
  • Gesture as construal: blockage, force, and distance in space and mind
  • Gesture sequences: wrist as hinge for shifts in discourse
  • Patterns of gesturing: the business of 'horizontal palming'
  • Wiping away: embodied interaction in speech and sign
  • Impulse theory: how, when, and why we gesture.