In:From Gesture in Conversation to Visible Action as Utterance: Essays in honor of Adam Kendon
Edited by Mandana Seyfeddinipur and Marianne Gullberg
[Not in series 188] 2014
► pp. v–vi
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Table of contents
A foreword
From gesture in conversation to visible action as utterance
Part I. Gaze and face
Including facial gestures in gesture-speech ensembles
Mutual gaze and recognition: Revisiting Kendon’s “Gaze direction in two-person conversation”
Part II. Manual gestures – quotable gestures and pointing
Gesture in the communicative ecology of a South African township
The emblem as metaphor
Pointing, talk, and the bodies: Reference and joint attention as embodied interactional achievements
Part III. Manual gestures – their nature and relationship to language
Gesture as “deliberate expressive movement”
On the lower limit of gesture
Part IV. Language evolution
The word according to Adam: The role of gesture in language evolution
The intelligibility of gesture within a framework of co-operative action
Part V. Sign systems
Signs and space in Arandic sand narratives
Different strokes: Gesture phrases and gesture units in a family homesign from Chiapas, Mexico
Gesture in all its forms: Following in the footsteps of Adam Kendon
Part VI. Children language development
The development of two pragmatic gestures of the so-called Open Hand Supine family in Italian children
How gestures help children to track reference in narrative
Gestures and multimodal development: Some key issues for language acquisition
Name index
Subject index
