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

List of contents

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.

About the author

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.

Summary

Based on the phenomenon of negation, this book combines gesture studies and cognitive linguistics to illustrate the multimodality of grammar in language use in social and professional interactions. It explains not only when and how we gesture, but also why we gesture. Ideal for researchers and graduate students in linguistics and cognitive science.

Foreword

Establishing the inseparability of grammar and gesture, this book explains what determines when, how, and why we gesture.

Product details

• Authors: Simon Harrison, Harrison Simon
• Publisher: Cambridge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2024
• EAN: 9781108404693
• ISBN: 978-1-108-40469-3
• Dimensions: 151 mm x 229 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 380 g
• Illustrations: 111 b/w illus. 5 tables, Zeichnungen, schwarz-weiss, Raster,schwarz-weiss, Tabellen, schwarz-weiss, Worked examples or Exercises
• 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