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Integrating gestures : the interdisciplinary nature of gesture

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Gestures convey information about culture, discourse, thought, intentionality, emotion, intersubjectivity, cognition, and first and second language acquisition. Additionally, they are used by non-human primates to communicate with their peers and with humans. Consequently, the modern field of gesture studies has attracted researchers from a number of different disciplines such as anthropology, cognitive science, communication, neuroscience, psycholinguistics, primatology, psychology, robotics, sociology and semiotics. This volume presents an overview of the depth and breadth of current research in gesture. Its focus is on the interdisciplinary nature of gesture. The chapters included in the volume are divided into six themes: the nature and functions of gesture, first language development and gesture, second language effects on gesture, gesture in the classroom and in problem solving, gesture aspects of discourse and interaction, and gestural analysis of music and dance.

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808.5 INT i

Publisher

Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company., 2011

Collation

372p. : ill.

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9789027287205

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808.5

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Language and languages--Study and teaching
Second language acquisition
Gesture

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edited by Gale Stam and Mika Ishino

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