Kensy Cooperrider

List of John Benjamins publications in which Kensy Cooperrider is involved.

Journal

Gesture

Edited by Ruth Breckinridge Church and Olivier Le Guen

ISSN 1568-1475 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9773

Cooperrider, Kensy 2019 Universals and diversity in gesture: Research past, present, and future Anthropology of Gesture, Brookes, Heather and Olivier Le Guen (eds.), pp. 209–238 | Article

At the dawn of anthropology, gesture was widely considered a “universal language”. In the 20th century, however, this framing fell out of favor as anthropologists rejected universalism in favor of relativism. These polemical positions were largely fueled by high-flying rhetoric and second-hand… read more

Cooperrider, Kensy 2017 Foreground gesture, background gesture Gesture 16:2, pp. 176–202 | Article

Do speakers intend their gestures to communicate? Central as this question is to the study of gesture, researchers cannot seem to agree on the answer. According to one common framing, gestures are an “unwitting” window into the mind (McNeill, 1992); but, according to another common framing, they… read more

Cooperrider, Kensy and Rafael Núñez 2012 Nose-pointing: Notes on a facial gesture of Papua New Guinea Gesture 12:2, pp. 103–129 | Article

This article describes a previously undocumented deictic facial gesture of Papua New Guinea, which we call nose-pointing. Based on a video corpus of examples produced by speakers of Yupno, an indigenous language of Papua New Guinea’s Finisterre Range, we characterize the gesture’s morphology —… read more

Cooperrider, Kensy 2011 Review of Wharton ((2009)): Pragmatics and non-verbal communication Gesture 11:1, pp. 81–88 | Review

Cooperrider, Kensy 2009 Review of Enfield & Levinson ((2006)): Roots of human sociality: culture, cognition and interaction Gesture 9:3, pp. 373–380 | Review

Cooperrider, Kensy and Rafael Núñez 2009 Across time, across the body: Transversal temporal gestures Gesture 9:2, pp. 181–206 | Article

Talk about time is commonly accompanied by co-speech gesture. Though much recent work has looked at how time is construed as space in the languages of the world, few studies have examined temporal gestures in any detail. Our focus is on a particular pattern among American English speakers —… read more