Kensy Cooperrider
List of John Benjamins publications for which Kensy Cooperrider plays a role.
Journal
ISSN 1568-1475 | E-ISSN 1569-9773
2019 Universals and diversity in gesture: Research past, present, and future Anthropology of Gesture, Brookes, Heather and Olivier Le Guen (eds.), pp. 209–238 | Article
At the dawn of anthropology, gesture was widely considered a “universal language”. In the 20th century, however, this framing fell out of favor as anthropologists rejected universalism in favor of relativism. These polemical positions were largely fueled by high-flying rhetoric and second-hand… read more
2017 Foreground gesture, background gesture Gesture 16:2, pp. 176–202 | Article
Do speakers intend their gestures to communicate? Central as this question is to the study of gesture, researchers cannot seem to agree on the answer. According to one common framing, gestures are an “unwitting” window into the mind (McNeill, 1992); but, according to another common framing, they… read more
2012 Nose-pointing: Notes on a facial gesture of Papua New Guinea Gesture 12:2, pp. 103–129 | Article
This article describes a previously undocumented deictic facial gesture of Papua New Guinea, which we call nose-pointing. Based on a video corpus of examples produced by speakers of Yupno, an indigenous language of Papua New Guinea’s Finisterre Range, we characterize the gesture’s morphology —… read more
2011 Review of Wharton ((2009)): Pragmatics and non-verbal communication Gesture 11:1, pp. 81–88 | Review
2009 Review of Enfield & Levinson ((2006)): Roots of human sociality: culture, cognition and interaction Gesture 9:3, pp. 373–380 | Review
2009 Across time, across the body: Transversal temporal gestures Gesture 9:2, pp. 181–206 | Article
Talk about time is commonly accompanied by co-speech gesture. Though much recent work has looked at how time is construed as space in the languages of the world, few studies have examined temporal gestures in any detail. Our focus is on a particular pattern among American English speakers —… read more