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The impulse to gesture : where language, minds, and bodies intersect / Simon Harrison.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom : New York ; Cambridge University Press, 2024Description: xix, 231 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781108404693
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 419 HAR 23
Contents:
The impulse to gesture: spontaneous but constrained -- The grammar-Gesture nexus: A mechanism for regularity in gesture -- Sync points in speech: evidence of grammatical affiliation for gesture -- Gesture as construal: blockage, force, and distance in space and mind -- Gesture sequences: wrist as hinge for shifts in discourse -- Patterns of gesturing: the business of 'horizontal palming' -- Wiping away: embodied interaction in speech and sign -- Impulse theory: how, when, and why we gesture.
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Revision of the author's Ph.D thesis in English Studies from Université Bordeaux 3, 2009.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-227) and index.

The impulse to gesture: spontaneous but constrained -- The grammar-Gesture nexus: A mechanism for regularity in gesture -- Sync points in speech: evidence of grammatical affiliation for gesture -- Gesture as construal: blockage, force, and distance in space and mind -- Gesture sequences: wrist as hinge for shifts in discourse -- Patterns of gesturing: the business of 'horizontal palming' -- Wiping away: embodied interaction in speech and sign -- Impulse theory: how, when, and why we gesture.

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