Michael Lempert
List of John Benjamins publications for which Michael Lempert plays a role.
Book series
ISSN 1874-6829
Articles
2019 What is an anthropology of gesture? Anthropology of Gesture, Brookes, Heather and Olivier Le Guen (eds.), pp. 173–208 | Article
For gesture research outside anthropology, the promise – and challenge – of anthropological method stems from one or more of its core commitments: its pursuit of human variation, both diachronic and synchronic; its insistence on naturalistic rather than experimental research design; and its… read more
2017 Uncommon resemblance: Pragmatic affinity in political gesture Gesture 16:1, pp. 35–67 | Article
Research on manual gesture has been preoccupied with unconventionalized and conventionalized extremes. Homesigns developed spontaneously by deaf children unexposed to standardized sign languages have been used as a window onto more general socio-cognitive processes of semiotic systemization.… read more
2011 Barack Obama, being sharp: Indexical order in the pragmatics of precision-grip gesture Gesture 11:3, pp. 241–270 | Article
Gesture in political oratory and debate is renowned for its nonreferential indexical functions, for the way it purportedly can indicate qualities of speaker and materialize acts of persuasion — functions famously addressed in Quintilian’s classic writings but understudied today. I revisit this… read more