Gesture - A Slim Guide

About the author

Lauren Gawne is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Languages and Cultures at La Trobe University. Her research focuses on the use of gesture with speech, cross-cultural variation in gesture, and the use of emoji, particularly the ways text and emoji parallel speech and gesture. She is passionate about communicating linguistics to a range of audiences and co-hosts the podcast Lingthusiasm with Gretchen McCulloch, as well as running the generalist linguistics website Superlinguo.

Summary

This book provides an accessible and engaging introduction to how we use gesture in communication. Lauren Gawne explores the different categories of gesture and how they vary across cultures and languages, the acquisition of gesture, where it lives in the brain, and its role in both the origins of language and the future of communication.

Product details

• Authors: Lauren Gawne, Lauren (Senior Lecturer Gawne, Gawne Lauren
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.03.2025
• EAN: 9780192855077
• ISBN: 978-0-19-285507-7
• No. of pages: 208
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / Child, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Sign Language, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Alphabets & Writing Systems, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Child & developmental psychology, Psycholinguistics, Child, developmental and lifespan psychology, Social and cultural anthropology, Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics, Sign languages, Braille & other linguistic communication, Sign languages, Braille and other linguistic communication