Gesture
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Language and Gesture
Author: David McNeill
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 2000-08-03
Landmark study on the role of gestures in relation to speech and thought.
Gesture
Author: Adam Kendon
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date: 2004-09-23
Gesture, or visible bodily action that is seen as intimately involved in the activity of speaking, has long fascinated scholars and laymen alike. Written by a leading authority on the subject, this 2004 study provides a comprehensive treatment of gesture and its use in interaction, drawing on the analysis of everyday conversations to demonstrate its varied role in the construction of utterances. Adam Kendon accompanies his analyses with an extended discussion of the history of the study of gesture - a topic not dealt with in any previous publication - as well as exploring the relationship between gesture and sign language, and how the use of gesture varies according to cultural and language differences. Set to become the definitive account of the topic, Gesture will be invaluable to all those interested in human communication. Its publication marks a major development, both in semiotics and in the emerging field of gesture studies.
Music and Gesture
Author: Anthony Gritten
language: en
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Release Date: 2006
This volume showcases key theoretical ideas and practical considerations in the growing area of scholarship on musical gesture. The book constructs and explores the relations between music and gesture from a range of differing perspectives, identifying theoretical approaches and examining the nature of certain types of gesture in musical performance. The twelve chapters in this volume are organized into a heuristic progression from theory to practice, from essay to case study.