Simon Harrison

The Impulse to Gesture

Where Language, Minds, and Bodies Intersect

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Establishing the inseparability of grammar and gesture, this book explains what determines when, how, and why we gesture

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 156mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 529g
• ISBN-13: 9781108417204
• ISBN-10: 1108417205
• Artikelnr.: 51268089

Autorenporträt

Simon Harrison is Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics in the School of English at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China. His research has played a central role in bridging the divide between grammar and gesture.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The impulse to gesture: spontaneous but constrained
2. The grammar-gesture nexus: a mechanism for regularity in gesture
3. Sync points in speech: evidence of grammatical affiliation for gesture
4. Gesture as construal: blockage, force, and distance in space and mind
5. Gesture sequences: wrist as hinge for shifts in discourse
6. Patterns of gesturing: the business of 'horizontal palming'
7. Wiping away: embodied interaction in speech and sign
8. Impulse theory: how, when, and why we gesture.