Integrating Gestures

The interdisciplinary nature of gesture

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Gale Stam | National Louis University

Mika Ishino | Kansai Gaidai University, Kobe University and University of Hyogo

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Gestures are ubiquitous and natural in our everyday life. They convey information about culture, discourse, thought, intentionality, emotion, intersubjectivity, cognition, and first and second language acquisition. Additionally, they are used by non-human primates to communicate with their peers and with humans. Consequently, the modern field of gesture studies has attracted researchers from a number of different disciplines such as anthropology, cognitive science, communication, neuroscience, psycholinguistics, primatology, psychology, robotics, sociology and semiotics. This volume presents an overview of the depth and breadth of current research in gesture. Its focus is on the interdisciplinary nature of gesture. The twenty-six chapters included in the volume are divided into six sections or themes: the nature and functions of gesture, first language development and gesture, second language effects on gesture, gesture in the classroom and in problem solving, gesture aspects of discourse and interaction, and gestural analysis of music and dance.

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[Gesture Studies, 4] 2011. viii, 372 pp.

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Table of Contents

Part I. Nature and functions of gestures

Chapter 1. Introduction

Mika Ishino and Gale Stam | pp. 3–14

Chapter 2. Addressing the problems of intentionality and granularity in non-human primate gesture

Erica A. Cartmill and Richard W. Byrne | pp. 15–26

Chapter 3. Birth of a Morph

David McNeill and Claudia Sowa | pp. 27–48

Chapter 4. Dyadic evidence for grounding with abstract deictic gestures

Janet Bavelas, Jennifer Gerwing, Meredith Allison and Chantelle Sutton | pp. 49–60

Chapter 5. If you don’t already know, I’m certainly not going to show you! Motivation to communicate affects gesture production

Autumn Hostetter, Martha W. Alibali and Sheree M. Schrager | pp. 61–74

Chapter 6. Measuring the formal diversity of hand gestures by their hamming distance

Katharina Hogrefe, Wolfram Ziegler and Georg Goldenberg | pp. 75–88

Chapter 7. ‘Parallel gesturing’ in adult-child conversations

Maria Graziano, Adam Kendon and Carla Cristilli | pp. 89–102

Part II. First language development and gesture

Chapter 8. Sentences and conversations before speech? Gestures of preverbal children reveal cognitive and social skills that do not wait for words

Claire D. Vallotton | pp. 105–120

Chapter 9. Giving a nod to social cognition: Developmental constraints on the emergence of conventional gestures and infant signs

Maria Fusaro and Claire D. Vallotton | pp. 121–136

Chapter 10. Sensitivity of maternal gesture to interlocutor and context

Maria Zammit and Graham Schafer | pp. 137–152

Chapter 11. The organization of children’s pointing stroke endpoints

Mats Andrén | pp. 153–162

Chapter 12. Is there an iconic gesture spurt at 26 months?

Şeyda Özçalışkan and Susan Goldin-Meadow | pp. 163–174

Chapter 13. The development of spatial perspective in the description of large-scale environments

Kazuki Sekine | pp. 175–186

Chapter 14. Learning to use gesture in narratives: Developmental trends in formal and semantic gesture competence

Olga Capirci, Carla Cristilli, V. De Angelis and Maria Graziano | pp. 187–200

Chapter 15. The changing role of gesture form and function in a picture book interaction between a child with autism and his support teacher

Hannah Sowden, Michael R. Perkins and Judy Clegg | pp. 201–216

Part III. Second language effects on gesture

Chapter 16. A cross-linguistic study of verbal and gestural descriptions in French and Japanese monolingual and bilingual children

Meghan Zvaigzne, Yuriko Oshima-Takane, Fred Genesee and Makiko Hirakawa | pp. 219–230

Chapter 17. Gesture and language shift on the Uruguayan-Brazilian border

Kendra Newbury | pp. 231–242

Part IV. Gesture in the classroom and in problem-solving

Chapter 18. Seeing the graph vs. being the graph: Gesture, engagement and awareness in school mathematics

Susan Gerofsky | pp. 245–256

Chapter 19. How gesture use enables intersubjectivity in the classroom

Mitchell J. Nathan and Martha W. Alibali | pp. 257–266

Chapter 20. Microgenesis of gestures during mental rotation tasks recapitulates ontogenesis

Mingyuan Chu and Sotaro Kita | pp. 267–276

Part V. Gesture aspects of discourse and interaction

Chapter 21. Gesture and discourse: How we use our hands to introduce versus refer back

Stephani Foraker | pp. 279–292

Chapter 22. Speakers’ use of ‘action’ and ‘entity’ gestures with definite and indefinite references

Katie Wilkin and Judith Holler | pp. 293–308

Chapter 23. “Voices” and bodies: Investigating nonverbal parameters of the participation framework

Claire Maury-Rouan | pp. 309–320

Chapter 24. Gestures in overlap: The situated establishment of speakership

Lorenza Mondada and Florence Oloff | pp. 321–338

Part VI. Gestural analysis of music and dance

Chapter 25. Music and leadership: The choir conductor’s multimodal communication

Isabella Poggi | pp. 341–354

Chapter 26. Handjabber: Exploring metaphoric gesture and non-verbal communication via an interactive art installation

Ellen Campana, Jessica Mumford, Cristóbal Martínez, Stjepan Rajko, Todd Ingalls, Lisa Tolentino and Harvey Thornburg | pp. 355–364

Name index | pp. 365–366

Subject index | pp. 367–372

“After decades of methodological self-reflection, the field of gesture studies has now reached a stage which allows steady accumulation of empirically based knowledge. The present volume gives an impressive survey of the kinds and functions of gestures occurring in humans and other primates and introduces the reader into the leading paradigms of contemporary gesture research. The contributors include prominent gesture researchers as well as promising young professionals with an interdisciplinary background and exemplify the successful international cooperation taking place in this fascinating field. The volume is of particular value for readers interested in first and second language development, social cognition, and problem-solving by means of gestures.”

Roland Posner, Honorary President of the International Association for Semiotic Studies IASS, Berlin Institute of Technology

“This outstanding volume presents a vast overview of contemporary research on gesture, covering multiple disciplines and different theoretical and methodological perspectives. It demonstrates the breadth and sophistication of studies that examine visible bodily actions and their intricate relationship to communication and cognition. A treasure trove of observations concerning forms and functions of gestures, their role in development, interaction, problem-solving, and even music-making, it's a volume to return to again and again. Essential reading for all interested in the nature and function of gestures!”

Marianne Gullberg, Lund University

“The study of gesture as a phenomenon has been the focus of much work, but as Integrating Gestures shows so well, the study of gesture has implications for a wider range of fields, including conversation analysis, child language acquisition, cognitive linguistics and semantics, than just the study of gesture in and of itself. [...] This collection of papers is a wonderful celebration of the heterogeneous nature of research currently being undertaken on gesture.”

Lauren Gawne, School of Languages and Linguistics, The University of Melbourne, on Linguist List; Vol. 23-23.390, dated 24/01/2012

“ Integrating Gestures shows us the great strides that gesture researchers have made in recent years, exploring the most diverse realms of human interaction and social and cognitive life. Gesture, perhaps our most ancient means of making sense together, has lost neither its appeal nor its relevance in this age of new media.”

Jürgen Streeck, The University of Texas at Austin

“This collection both advances knowledge of each of these individual themes, and highlights an
integrative agenda for future research.”

Amelia Yeo and Martha W. Alibali, University of Wisconsin–Madison, Applied Linguistics Vol. 35:3 (2014), pp. 357-364

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