ISBN:
9789004449794
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (313 pages)
Series Statement:
Brill's Studies in Language, Cognition and Culture Ser.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
153.69
Keywords:
Speech and gesture
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Speech and gesture-Africa, West
;
Hausa language-Social aspects
;
Nonverbal communication-Africa, West
;
Speech and gesture
;
Hausa language Social aspects
;
Nonverbal communication
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Figures and Tables -- Notational Conventions -- Introduction -- Data and Method of Analysis -- Content of the Book -- Chapter 1. Function, Meaning and Form of Gestures -- 1.1. What is a Gesture? -- 1.2. Gesture Phase -- 1.3. Form of the Gesture -- 1.4. The Role of Context in Determining the Function and Meaning of Gestures in an Utterance -- 1.5. Human Hands as a Tool of Performing Gestures -- 1.6. Types of Gestures -- 1.6.1. Co-speech Gestures -- 1.6.2. Gestures Produced Independently of Speech Production -- 1.6.3. Conventionalized versus Non-conventionalized Gestures-a Dichotomy? -- 1.7. Formal Approach Towards Gestures -- 1.7.1. Gesture Families and Types of Recurrent Gestures -- 1.7.2. Recurrent Gestures versus Emblems-Similarities and Differences -- 1.7.3. Form, Meaning and Contextual Use of Recurrent Gestures -- 1.7.4. Assigning Function to Recurrent Gestures -- 1.7.5. Universal and Regional Features of Recurrent Gestures -- Chapter 2. Gestures, Language and Cognition -- 2.1. Why Do We Gesture? -- 2.1.1. Learning Process and the Emergence and Use of Gestures -- 2.1.2. Routine -- 2.2. Physical and Mental Integration of Language and Gestures -- 2.3. Correlations between Lexicon and Gestures -- 2.3.1. Gestural Idioms -- 2.3.2. Multimodal Constructions -- 2.4. Correlations between Gestures and Grammar: Gesture-Grammar Nexus -- 2.5. Schema-the Way to Understand Gesture and Language -- 2.5.1. Image Schemas -- 2.5.2. Force Gestalts -- 2.5.3. Mimetic Schemas -- 2.5.4. Frame -- 2.5.5. Opposition and (Bi)polarity as a Part of a Schema -- 2.6. The Role of Metonymy in Language and Gestures -- 2.7. Gestures and Metaphors -- Chapter 3. Hausa Culture, Society and Conceptualization of the World Exposed in Gestures -- 3.1. Overview of the Hausa Culture.
Abstract:
"Is the relation between gestures and language conventionalized? Is it possible to investigate the backgrounds of the users by means of these gestures? This book offers an in-depth analysis and description of five recurrent gestures used by Hausa speakers from northern Nigeria, examined from a cross-cultural perspective. The method based on studying naturalistic data available online (sermons, interviews and talk shows) can be applied to other languages with no speech corpora. Particular attention is paid to cultural practices and routinized behavior that affect both the performance of a gesture and its meaning and function. Everyday activities, such as greetings and religious rituals, as well as social hierarchy and gender differences are reflected in gestures. The results show that gestures and language reveal the shared cultural background of the speakers and reflect identical cognitive processes"--
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