Impulse to Gesture - Where Language, Minds, and Bodies Intersect

Informationen zum Autor Simon Harrison is Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics in the School of English at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China. His research has played a central role in bridging the divide between grammar and gesture. Klappentext Establishing the inseparability of grammar and gesture, this book explains what determines when, how, and why we gesture Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The impulse to gesture: spontaneous but constrained; 2. The grammar-gesture nexus: a mechanism for regularity in gesture; 3. Sync points in speech: evidence of grammatical affiliation for gesture; 4. Gesture as construal: blockage, force, and distance in space and mind; 5. Gesture sequences: wrist as hinge for shifts in discourse; 6. Patterns of gesturing: the business of 'horizontal palming'; 7. Wiping away: embodied interaction in speech and sign; 8. Impulse theory: how, when, and why we gesture.

Product details

• Authors: Simon Harrison, Harrison Simon
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9781108417204
• ISBN: 978-1-108-41720-4
• No. of pages: 248
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Sign Language, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Communication Studies, Grammar, syntax & morphology, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Grammar, syntax and morphology