ISBN:
1410607747
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9781410607744
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (vii, 339 pages)
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illustrations
Parallel Title:
Print version Pointing
DDC:
302.222
Keywords:
Pointing (Gesture)
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Nonverbal communication
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Communication and culture
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Communication and culture
;
Pointing (Gesture)
;
Nonverbal communication
;
Communication and culture
;
Pointing (Gesture)
;
Nonverbal communication
;
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES ; Communication Studies
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Konferenzschrift
Abstract:
This volume brings together papers on pointing gestures from disciplines, such as developmental psychology, psycholinguistics, sign-language linguistics, lingiustic anthropology, conversational analysis and primatology
Description / Table of Contents:
Pointing: A Foundational Building Block of Human Communication / Sotaro KitaPointing Is the Royal Road to Language for Babies / George Butterworth -- Chimpanzees Pointing: Another Error of the Argument by Analogy? / Daniel J. Povinelli, Jesse M. Bering, and Steve Giambrone -- From Index-Finger Extension to Index-Finger Pointing: Ontogenesis of Pointing in Preverbal Infants / Nobuo Masataka -- Pointing Toward Two-Word Speech in Young Children / Susan Goldin-Meadow and Cynthia Butcher -- Pointing by Hand in Neapolitan / Adam Kendon and Laura Versante -- How to Point in Zinacantan / John B. Haviland -- Why Pointing With the Index Finger Is Not a Universal (in Sociocultural and Semiotic Terms) / David Wilkins -- Pointing as Situated Practice / Herbert H. Clark -- From Pointing to Reference and Predication: Pointing Signs, Eyegaze, and Head and Body Orientation in Danish Sign Language / Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen -- Pointing and Morality in Chicago / David McNeill -- Interplay of Gaze, Hand, Torso Orientation, and Language in Pointing / Sotaro Kita.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. - Print version record
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