Heather Brookes
List of John Benjamins publications in which Heather Brookes is involved.
Journal
ISSN 1568-1475 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9773
Title
Anthropology of Gesture
Edited by Heather Brookes and Olivier Le Guen
Special issue of Gesture 18:2/3 (2019) vi, 282 pp.
2023 The development of speech and gesture in Sesotho narratives Gesture 22:3, pp. 233–261 | Article
Studies show that speech and gesture develop together with age, and the nature of gestures changes with increasing cognitive and discursive abilities. While there are common developmental trends, cultural differences may also impact development. We examined gesture development in narratives of… read more
2019 Gesture studies and anthropological perspectives: An introduction Anthropology of Gesture, Brookes, Heather and Olivier Le Guen (eds.), pp. 119–141 | Introduction
This contribution is the introduction for the special issue of Gesture entitled “Anthropology of Gesture”. As such, it raises two main questions: how do gestures contribute to the field of anthropology? And, inversely, how anthropology can improve our understanding of gesture and gestural… read more
2018 The role of gestural polysigns and gestural sequences in teaching mathematical concepts: The case of halving Gesture 17:1, pp. 128–157 | Article
In this paper, we examine the conceptual pedagogical value of representational gestures in the context of teaching halving to first graders. We use the concept of the ‘polysign’ as an analytical tool and introduce the notion of a ‘mathematics gesture sequence’ to assess the conceptual role… read more
2016 Review of Agwuele ((2015)): Body talk and cultural identity in the African world: A review Gesture 15:3, pp. 425–430 | Review
2014 Gesture in the communicative ecology of a South African township From Gesture in Conversation to Visible Action as Utterance: Essays in honor of Adam Kendon, Seyfeddinipur, Mandana and Marianne Gullberg (eds.), pp. 59–74 | Article
In his work among Neapolitans, Kendon asks why a particular gesture profile should have come to exist. He suggests investigating communicative styles from historical and ecological perspectives to explain how different cultural patterns of communication develop and are sustained. This chapter… read more
2011 Amangama amathathu ‘The three letters’: The emergence of a quotable gesture (emblem) Gesture 11:2, pp. 194–218 | Article
This paper describes the emergence of a quotable gesture for HIV/AIDS in South Africa. The gesture has its origin in the Zulu phrase amangama amathathu ‘the three letters’, an expression South Africans began to use from the mid-1990s to refer to the acronym HIV. This phrase generated a plethora of… read more
2002 O clever ‘He’s streetwise.’ When gestures become quotable: The case of the clever gesture Gesture 1:2, pp. 167–184 | Article
Among urban black South Africans in the province of Gauteng, quotable gestures are a prominent feature of everyday communication. Most notable is a gesture commonly glossed as clever meaning ‘streetwise’ and ‘city slick.’ An analysis of the clever gesture in everyday communicative situations shows… read more