Jean-Marc Colletta

List of John Benjamins publications for which Jean-Marc Colletta plays a role.

Titles

Verbal and gestural expression of motion and spatial events / L’expression verbale et gestuelle du mouvement et de l’espace: New evidence from different age groups and linguistic environments / nouveaux arguments en provenance de différents groupes d’âge et de différents environnements linguistiques

Edited by Kateřina Fibigerová, Jean-Marc Colletta and Michèle Guidetti

Special issue of Language, Interaction and Acquisition 9:1 (2018) v, 136 pp.

Subjects Cognition and language | Language acquisition | Multilingualism

Gesture and Multimodal Development

Edited by Jean-Marc Colletta and Michèle Guidetti

[Benjamins Current Topics, 39] 2012. xii, 223 pp.

Subjects Cognitive psychology | Gesture Studies | Language acquisition | Signed languages

Gesture and Multimodal Development

Edited by Jean-Marc Colletta and Michèle Guidetti

Special issue of Gesture 10:2/3 (2010) vi, 232 pp.

Subjects Cognitive psychology | Communication Studies | Electronic/Multimedia Products | Gesture Studies | Signed languages

Articles (8) | Order by:

Colletta, Jean-Marc, Ramona Kunene Nicolas and Michèle Guidetti 2018 Chapter 7. Gesture and speech in adults’ and children’s narratives: A cross-linguistic investigation of Zulu and French Sources of Variation in First Language Acquisition: Languages, contexts, and learners, Hickmann, Maya †, Edy Veneziano and Harriet Jisa (eds.), pp. 139–160 | Chapter

This chapter reports on a cross-linguistic developmental study comparing speech and gesture produced in narratives by adults and children speaking either French (a non-pro-drop Romance language) or Zulu (a pro-drop Bantu language). We asked 72 participants (French: 12 adults and 24 children; Zulu:… read more

Fibigerová, Kateřina, Jean-Marc Colletta and Michèle Guidetti 2018 Verbal and gestural expression of motion and spatial events: New evidence from different age groups and linguistic environments Verbal and gestural expression of motion and spatial events / L’expression verbale et gestuelle du mouvement et de l’espace: New evidence from different age groups and linguistic environments / nouveaux arguments en provenance de différents groupes d’âge et de différents environnements linguistiques, Fibigerová, Kateřina, Jean-Marc Colletta and Michèle Guidetti (eds.), pp. 1–10 | Introduction

Fibigerová, Kateřina, Jean-Marc Colletta et Michèle Guidetti 2018 L’expression verbale et gestuelle du mouvement et de l’espace: Nouveaux arguments en provenance de différents groupes d’âge et de différents environnements linguistiques Verbal and gestural expression of motion and spatial events / L’expression verbale et gestuelle du mouvement et de l’espace: New evidence from different age groups and linguistic environments / nouveaux arguments en provenance de différents groupes d’âge et de différents environnements linguistiques, Fibigerová, Kateřina, Jean-Marc Colletta and Michèle Guidetti (eds.), pp. 11–21 | Introduction

Ovendale, Alice, Heather Brookes, Jean-Marc Colletta and Zain Davis 2018 The role of gestural polysigns and gestural sequences in teaching mathematical concepts: The case of halving Gesture 17:1, pp. 128–157 | Article

In this paper, we examine the conceptual pedagogical value of representational gestures in the context of teaching halving to first graders. We use the concept of the ‘polysign’ as an analytical tool and introduce the notion of a ‘mathematics gesture sequence’ to assess the conceptual role… read more

Guidetti, Michèle, Kateřina Fibigerová and Jean-Marc Colletta 2014 Gestures and multimodal development: Some key issues for language acquisition From Gesture in Conversation to Visible Action as Utterance: Essays in honor of Adam Kendon, Seyfeddinipur, Mandana and Marianne Gullberg (eds.), pp. 351–370 | Article

Children begin to gesture long before talking. Gestures, such as pointing or waving goodbye, constitute the principal means of interacting conventionally with others before the emergence of the lexicon. Children continue to gesture after they start to talk, and through to adulthood. In spite of… read more

Guidetti, Michèle and Jean-Marc Colletta 2012 Gesture and multimodal development Gesture and Multimodal Development, Colletta, Jean-Marc and Michèle Guidetti (eds.), pp. 1–6 | Article

Guidetti, Michèle and Jean-Marc Colletta 2010 Gesture and multimodal development Gesture and Multimodal Development, Colletta, Jean-Marc and Michèle Guidetti (eds.), pp. 123–128 | Article

Colletta, Jean-Marc 2009 Comparative analysis of children’s narratives at different ages: A multimodal approach Gesture 9:1, pp. 61–96 | Article

This study addresses two questions. The first question is about how children integrate linguistic, prosodic and kinesic resources into organised discourse behaviour such as oral narratives. Three event reports produced spontaneously by 9- to 11-year-old French children during interviews with an… read more