Gesture and the Dynamic Dimension of Language: Essays in honor of David McNeill
Edited by Susan D. Duncan, Justine Cassell and Elena T. Levy
[Gesture Studies, 1] 2007. vi, 328 pp.
Susan D. Duncan
List of John Benjamins publications for which Susan D. Duncan plays a role.
Title
Subjects Cognition and language | Communication Studies | Gesture Studies | Signed languages
Articles
2010 Growth points from the very beginning The Emergence of Protolanguage: Holophrasis vs compositionality, Arbib, Michael A. and Derek Bickerton (eds.), pp. 117–132 | Article
Early humans formed language units consisting of global and discrete dimensions of semiosis in dynamic opposition, or ‘growth points.’ At some point, gestures gained the power to orchestrate actions, manual and vocal, with significances other than those of the actions themselves, giving rise to… read more
2008 Growth points from the very beginning Holophrasis vs Compositionality in the Emergence of Protolanguage, Arbib, Michael A. and Derek Bickerton (eds.), pp. 117–132 | Article
Early humans formed language units consisting of global and discrete dimensions of semiosis in dynamic opposition, or ‘growth points.’ At some point, gestures gained the power to orchestrate actions, manual and vocal, with significances other than those of the actions themselves, giving rise to… read more
2007 20 Discourse Focus, Gesture, and Disfluent Aphasia Gesture and the Dynamic Dimension of Language: Essays in honor of David McNeill, Duncan, Susan D., Justine Cassell and Elena T. Levy (eds.), pp. 269–283 | Chapter
2007 1 Introduction: The Dynamic Dimension of Language Gesture and the Dynamic Dimension of Language: Essays in honor of David McNeill, Duncan, Susan D., Justine Cassell and Elena T. Levy (eds.), pp. 1–11 | Chapter
2006 Review of Beattie ((2003)): Visible thought. The new psychology of body language Gesture 6:1, pp. 103–118 | Review
2005 Festschrift Conference Honoring David McNeill, held at the University of Chicago, June 8th 2003 Gesture 4:2, pp. 251–255 | Miscellaneous
2002 Gesture, verb aspect, and the nature of iconic imagery in natural discourse Gesture 2:2, pp. 183–206 | Article
Linguistic analyses of Mandarin Chinese and English have detailed the differences between the two languages in terms of the devices each makes available for expressing distinctions in the temporal contouring of events — verb aspect and Aktionsart. In this study, adult native speakers of each… read more
2001 Catchments, prosody and discourse Gesture 1:1, pp. 9–33 | Article
We present our work on the temporal integration of hierarchies of communicative actions: kinesic, prosodic and discursive. We use the device of the ‘catchment’ as the locus around which this integration proceeds. We present a detailed case study of a gesture and speech elicitation experiment in… read more