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Gesture, or visible bodily action intimately involved in the activity of speaking, has long fascinated scholars and laymen alike. Written by a leading authority on the subject, this book draws on the analysis of everyday conversations to demonstrate the varied role of gestures in the construction of utterances. Publication of this definitive account of the topic marks a major development in semiotics as well as in the emerging field of gesture studies.Read more
- Probably the most comprehensive treatment of gesture to be found anywhere
- Presents a series of detailed studies of how gesture is used in conversation which have never been published before
- Chapters on the history of the study of gesture, gesture and sign language, and gesture as part of the communication economy of a culture give it a depth not found in any other book on the topic
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"The treatment of the history of gesture studies is among the finest this reviewer has encountered, so the book seems destined to become a classic. Essential." CHOICE June 2005
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- Date Published: November 2004
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521835251
- length: 412 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 157 x 30 mm
- weight: 0.751kg
- contains: 93 b/w illus.
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
1. The domain of gesture
2. Visible action as gesture
3. Western interest in gesture from classical antiquity to the eighteenth century
4. Four contributions from the nineteenth century: Andrea de Jorio, Edward Tylor, Garrick Mallery and Wilhelm Wundt
5. Gesture studies in the twentieth century: recession and return
6. Classifying gestures
7. Gesture units, gesture phrases and speech
8. Deployments of gesture in the utterance
9. Gesture and speech in semantic interaction
10. Gesture and referential meaning
11. On pointing
12. Gestures of the 'precision-grip': topic, comment and question markers
13. Two gesture families of the open hand
14. Gesture without speech: the emergence of kinesic codes
15. Gesture and sign on common ground
16. Gesture, culture and the communication economy
17. The status of gesture
Appendix I. Transcription conventions
Appendix II. The recordings.
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