nam a22 c 4500 gs.2/659007499 nljbp 250625042329.1 cr ||||||||||| 131216s2009 ne |||||||||||||||||eng|d 2008050994 9789027289827 (e-Book) nljbp eng nljbp nljbp P117 302.2/22 22 CFZ bicssc LAN009000 bisacsh Streeck, Jurgen author Gesturecraft The manu-facture of meaning Jürgen Streeck Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2009 ©2009 1 online resource (xii, 235 pp.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Gesture Studies 1874-6829 2 Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 1. Manufactured understanding -- 2. Gesture as interaction: On methodology -- 3. Hands -- 4. Gathering meaning -- 5. The turn to the hands -- 6. Depicting -- 7. Thinking by hand -- 8. Speech-handling -- 9. A sustainable art The craft of gesture is part of the practical equipment with which we inhabit and understand the world together. Drawing on micro-ethnographic research in diverse interaction settings, this book explores the communicative ecologies in which hand-gestures appear: illuminating the world around us, depicting it, making sense of it, and symbolizing the interaction process itself. Gesture is analyzed as embodied communicative action grounded in the hands' practical and cognitive engagments with material worlds. The book responds to the quest for the role of the human body in cognition and interaction with an analytic perspective informed by phenomenology, conversation analysis, context analysis, praxeology, and cognitive science. Many of the cross-linguistic video-data of everyday interaction investigated in its chapters are available on-line. Provided by publisher. Cognition and language Communication Studies Gesture Studies Pragmatics Streeck, Jürgen author Hardbound version: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2009 9789027228420 Paperback version: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2011 9789027228468 DOI https://doi.org/10.1075/gs.2 JB e-Platform https://www.jbe-platform.com/content/books/9789027289827