Susan D. Duncan

List of John Benjamins publications in which Susan D. Duncan is involved.

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Gesture and the Dynamic Dimension of Language: Essays in honor of David McNeill

Edited by Susan D. Duncan, Justine Cassell and Elena T. Levy

Each of the 21 chapters in this volume reflects a view of language as a dynamic phenomenon with emergent structure, and in each, gesture is approached as part of language, not an adjunct to it. In this, all of the authors have been influenced by David McNeill's methods for studying natural… read more

[Gesture Studies, 1] 2007. vi, 328 pp.

Articles (8) | Order by:

McNeill, David, Susan D. Duncan, Jonathan Cole, Shaun Gallagher and Bennett Bertenthal 2010 Growth points from the very beginning The Emergence of Protolanguage: Holophrasis vs compositionality, Arbib, Michael A. and Derek Bickerton (eds.), pp. 117–132 | Article

Early humans formed language units consisting of global and discrete dimensions of semiosis in dynamic opposition, or ‘growth points.’ At some point, gestures gained the power to orchestrate actions, manual and vocal, with significances other than those of the actions themselves, giving rise to… read more

McNeill, David, Susan D. Duncan, Jonathan Cole, Shaun Gallagher and Bennett Bertenthal 2008 Growth points from the very beginning Holophrasis vs Compositionality in the Emergence of Protolanguage, Arbib, Michael A. and Derek Bickerton (eds.), pp. 117–132 | Article

Duncan, Susan D. and Laura Pedelty 2007 20 Discourse Focus, Gesture, and Disfluent Aphasia Gesture and the Dynamic Dimension of Language: Essays in honor of David McNeill, Duncan, Susan D., Justine Cassell and Elena T. Levy (eds.), pp. 269–283 | Chapter

Levy, Elena T., Susan D. Duncan and Justine Cassell 2007 1 Introduction: The Dynamic Dimension of Language Gesture and the Dynamic Dimension of Language: Essays in honor of David McNeill, Duncan, Susan D., Justine Cassell and Elena T. Levy (eds.), pp. 3–11 | Chapter

Duncan, Susan D. 2006 Review of Beattie ((2003)): Visible thought. The new psychology of body language Gesture 6:1, pp. 103–118 | Review

Duncan, Susan D., Amy Franklin, Mika Ishino, Irene Kimbara and Fey Parrill 2005 Festschrift Conference Honoring David McNeill, held at the University of Chicago, June 8th 2003 Gesture 4:2, pp. 251–255 | Miscellaneous

Duncan, Susan D. 2002 Gesture, verb aspect, and the nature of iconic imagery in natural discourse Gesture 2:2, pp. 183–206 | Article

Linguistic analyses of Mandarin Chinese and English have detailed the differences between the two languages in terms of the devices each makes available for expressing distinctions in the temporal contouring of events — verb aspect and Aktionsart. In this study, adult native speakers of each… read more

McNeill, David, Francis Quek, Karl-Erik McCullough, Susan D. Duncan, Nobuhiro Furuyama, Robert Bryll, Rashid Ansari and Rashid Ansari 2001 Catchments, prosody and discourse Gesture 1:1, pp. 9–33 | Article

We present our work on the temporal integration of hierarchies of communicative actions: kinesic, prosodic and discursive. We use the device of the ‘catchment’ as the locus around which this integration proceeds. We present a detailed case study of a gesture and speech elicitation experiment in… read more