Gesture, ritual and memory

Special issue of Gesture 6:2 (2006)

Editor
ORCID logoPaul Bouissac | University of Toronto
[Gesture, 6:2] 2006.  vi, 123 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 16 October 2006
Table of Contents
Articles
Introduction: Gesture, ritual and memory
Paul Bouissac
171–176
The evolutionary socioecology of gestural communication
Marion Blute
177–188
Gesture in evolutionary perspective
Paul Bouissac
189–204
Gestures as embodied cognition: A neurodevelopmental interpretation
Marcel Kinsbourne
205–214
The literal and metaphorical inscription of gesture in religious discourse
Peter Jackson
215–222
The rhetoric of gesture in cross-cultural perspective
Robert A. Yelle
223–240
Actors and the body: Meta-theatrical rhetoric in Shakespeare
John H. Astington
241–259
Book Reviews
Kühn, Christine (2002): Körper — Sprache. Elemente einer sprachwissenschaftlichen Explikation non-verbaler Kommunikation
Renate Fischer
261–272
Review of Poyatos ((2002)): Nonverbal communication across disciplines. Volume 1: Culture, sensory interaction, speech, conversation. Volume 2: Paralanguage, kinesics, silence, personal and environmental interaction. Volume 3: Narrative literature, theater, cinema, translation.
Reviewed by Pierre Feyereisen
273–282
Recent, new, and forthcoming books on gesture and related topics
283–284
Websites
285
ISGS Membership application form
287
Forthcoming events
289–291
Subjects

Communication Studies

Communication Studies

Linguistics

Signed languages

Main BIC Subject

JM: Psychology

Main BISAC Subject

PSY000000: PSYCHOLOGY / General