Pointing : where language, culture, and cognition meet / edited by Sotaro Kita.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kita, Sotaro, 1963-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pointing (Gesture).

Nonverbal communication.

Communication and culture.

Physical Description:

vii, 339 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 2003.

Summary:

This bk attempts to meld the study of language with the study of cognition by examining instances of pointing.It brings together diverse approaches to the topic of pointing including linguistic persp. developmental persp. interactive pers.&cognitive pers

Contents:

1 Pointing: A Foundational Building Block of Human Communication / Sotaro Kita 1

2 Pointing Is the Royal Road to Language for Babies / George Butterworth 9

3 Chimpanzees' "Pointing": Another Error of the Argument by Analogy? / Daniel J. Povinelli, Jesse M. Bering, Steve Giambrone 35

4 From Index-Finger Extension to Index-Finger Pointing: Ontogenesis of Pointing in Preverbal Infants / Nobuo Masataka 69

5 Pointing Toward Two-Word Speech in Young Children / Susan Goldin-Meadow, Cynthia Butcher 85

6 Pointing by Hand in "Neapolitan" / Adam Kendon, Laura Versante 109

7 How to Point in Zinacantan / John B. Haviland 139

8 Why Pointing With the Index Finger Is Not a Universal (in Sociocultural and Semiotic Terms) / David Wilkins 171

9 Pointing as Situated Practice / Charles Goodwin 217

10 Pointing and Placing / Herbert H. Clark 243

11 From Pointing to Reference and Predication: Pointing Signs, Eyegaze, and Head and Body Orientation in Danish Sign Language / Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen 269

12 Pointing and Morality in Chicago / David McNeill 293

13 Interplay of Gaze, Hand, Torso Orientation, and Language in Pointing / Sotaro Kita 307.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0805840141

OCLC:

49727890