Simon Harrison

The Impulse to Gesture

Where Language, Minds, and Bodies Intersect

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Produktbeschreibung

Based on the phenomenon of negation, this book combines gesture studies and cognitive linguistics to illustrate the multimodality of grammar in language use in social and professional interactions. It explains not only when and how we gesture, but also why we gesture. Ideal for researchers and graduate students in linguistics and cognitive science.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 251
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. März 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 370g
• ISBN-13: 9781108404693
• ISBN-10: 1108404693
• Artikelnr.: 70180109

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.