ISBN:
9789027285171
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (398 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
302.2/22
Keywords:
Civics -- Study and teaching
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Political science -- Study and teaching
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Citizenship -- Study and teaching
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Gesture
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Psycholinguistics
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Semiotics
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Speech
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Thought and thinking
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Summarizing her pioneering work on the semiotic analysis of gestures in conversational settings, Geneviève Calbris offers a comprehensive account of her unique perspective on the relationship between gesture, speech, and thought. She highlights the various functions of gesture and especially shows how various gestural signs can be created in the same gesture by analogical links between physical and semantic elements. Originating in our world experience via mimetic and metonymic processes, these analogical links are activated by contexts of use and thus lead to a diverse range of semantic constructions rather as, from the components of a Meccano kit, many different objects can be assembled. By (re)presenting perceptual schemata that mediate between the concrete and the abstract, gesture may frequently anticipate verbal formulation. Arguing for gesture as a symbolic system in its own right that interfaces with thought and speech production, Calbris' book brings a challenging new perspective to gesture studies and will be seminal for generations of gesture researchers.
Abstract:
Elements of Meaning in Gesture -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The gestural sign and related key concepts -- 1. The gestural sign drawn from physical experience -- 1.1 Experience of the physical world -- 1.2 Representation of the physical world -- 2. The gestural sign in discourse -- 2.1 Identifying gestural units -- 2.2 Characteristics of the gestural sign demonstrated by examples of Ring gestures -- 2.2.1 A cultural sign -- 2.2.2 A contextual sign -- 2.2.2.1 The kinesic context. -- 2.2.2.2 The verbal context. -- 2.2.3 An analogical sign -- 2.2.4 An isomorphic analogical sign -- 2.3 The symbolic relations between gestures and notions -- 2.3.1 Several gestures represent one notion: Variation -- 2.3.1.1 Gesture variants and cumulative variants. -- 2.3.2 One gesture represents several notions: Polysemy & polysign -- 2.3.2.1 The polysemous gesture. -- 2.3.2.2 The polysign gesture. -- 2.3.2.3 The polysemous polysign gesture. -- 2.4 Interaction between the phenomena of variation and polysemy -- 2.4.1 How to find the analogical link -- 2.4.2 Gestural sequencing -- PART I. The functions of gesture in relation to speech -- Chapter 2. The demarcative function of gesture -- 1. Multimodal communication -- 1.1 Nonverbal aspects of multimodal communication -- 1.2 The multifunctionality of each communication channel -- 2. The demarcative function of gesture in association with the voice -- 2.1 Hierarchic segmentation of discourse -- 2.1.1 Kinesic segmentation of discourse into ideational units -- 2.1.2 Kinesic segmentation of ideational units into rhythmic-semantic groups -- 2.1.3 Kinesic segmentation of rhythmic-semantic groups into words -- 2.2 Recurrence in segmentation of discourse -- 2.2.1 Prosodic recurrence -- 2.2.2 Kinesic recurrence.
Description / Table of Contents:
Elements of Meaning in Gesture; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1. The gestural sign and related key concepts; 1. The gestural sign drawn from physical experience; 1.1 Experience of the physical world; 1.2 Representation of the physical world; 2. The gestural sign in discourse; 2.1 Identifying gestural units; 2.2 Characteristics of the gestural sign demonstrated by examples of Ring gestures; 2.2.1 A cultural sign; 2.2.2 A contextual sign; 2.2.2.1 The kinesic context.; 2.2.2.2 The verbal context.
Description / Table of Contents:
2.2.3 An analogical sign2.2.4 An isomorphic analogical sign; 2.3 The symbolic relations between gestures and notions; 2.3.1 Several gestures represent one notion: Variation; 2.3.1.1 Gesture variants and cumulative variants.; 2.3.2 One gesture represents several notions: Polysemy & polysign; 2.3.2.1 The polysemous gesture.; 2.3.2.2 The polysign gesture.; 2.3.2.3 The polysemous polysign gesture.; 2.4 Interaction between the phenomena of variation and polysemy; 2.4.1 How to find the analogical link; 2.4.2 Gestural sequencing; PART I. The functions of gesture in relation to speech
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 2. The demarcative function of gesture1. Multimodal communication; 1.1 Nonverbal aspects of multimodal communication; 1.2 The multifunctionality of each communication channel; 2. The demarcative function of gesture in association with the voice; 2.1 Hierarchic segmentation of discourse; 2.1.1 Kinesic segmentation of discourse into ideational units; 2.1.2 Kinesic segmentation of ideational units into rhythmic-semantic groups; 2.1.3 Kinesic segmentation of rhythmic-semantic groups into words; 2.2 Recurrence in segmentation of discourse; 2.2.1 Prosodic recurrence
Description / Table of Contents:
2.2.2 Kinesic recurrence2.2.3 Discourse choreography; 2.2.4 Semantic choreography; 2.2.5 Segmentation of gestural units related to the referential function; Chapter 3. Identifying the referential function of gesture; 1. Some precepts in visual representation; 1.1 The relation precedes the elements to be related; 1.1.1 Relation of transfer or of substitution; 1.1.2 Temporal relation; 1.1.3 Relation between numbered values; 1.2 Designation precedes qualification; 2. The importance of context for identifying the meaning of a gesture; 2.1 The vocal context
Description / Table of Contents:
2.2 The simultaneous and the successive kinesic contexts3. Example of analysis.; 4. The representational gesture is not a word illustrator; PART II. The systematic organization of gestural signs; Chapter 4. Classification of referential gestures according to their priority components; 1. The context indicates the relevant body part; 2. Localization: Body-focused gestures; 3. Movement: Gestures in space; 3.1 Form of movement; 3.1.1 Straight-line gestures and their secondary components; 3.1.1.1 Directional axes of movement in relation to the planar position and orientation of the body part.
Description / Table of Contents:
3.1.1.2 The body part and the plane in which it is positioned.
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