Body language communication. Volume 1 : an international handbook on multimodality in human interaction / edited by Cornelia Müller [and five others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Müller, Cornelia, 1960-

Series:

Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft ; 38.1.

Handbooks of linguistics and communication science ; 38.1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human body and language.

Nonverbal communication.

Speech and gesture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1148 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Volume I of the handbook presents contemporary, multidisciplinary, historical, theoretical, and methodological aspects of how body movements relate to language. It documents how leading scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds conceptualize and analyze this complex relationship. Five chapters and a total of 72 articles, present current and past approaches, including multidisciplinary methods of analysis. The chapters cover: I. How the body relates to language and communication: Outlining the subject matter, II. Perspectives from different disciplines, III. Historical dimensions, IV. Contemporary approaches, V. Methods. Authors include: Michael Arbib, Janet Bavelas, Marino Bonaiuto, Paul Bouissac, Judee Burgoon, Martha Davis, Susan Duncan, Konrad Ehlich, Nick Enfield, Pierre Feyereisen, Raymond W. Gibbs, Susan Goldin-Meadow, Uri Hadar, Adam Kendon, Antja Kennedy, David McNeill, Lorenza Mondada, Fernando Poyatos, Klaus Scherer, Margret Selting, Jürgen Streeck, Sherman Wilcox, Jeffrey Wollock, Jordan Zlatev.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Introduction / Müller, Cornelia

I. How the body relates to language and communication: Outlining the subject matter

1. Exploring the utterance roles of visible bodily action: A personal account / Kendon, Adam

2. Gesture as a window onto mind and brain, and the relationship to linguistic relativity and ontogenesis / McNeill, David

3. Gestures and speech from a linguistic perspective: A new field and its history / Müller, Cornelia / Ladewig, Silva H. / Bressem, Jana

4. Emblems, quotable gestures, or conventionalized body movements / Teßendorf, Sedinha

5. Framing, grounding, and coordinating conversational interaction: Posture, gaze, facial expression, and movement in space / Kidwell, Mardi

6. Homesign: When gesture is called upon to be language / Goldin-Meadow, Susan

7. Speech, sign, and gesture / Wilcox, Sherman

II. Perspectives from different disciplines

8. The growth point hypothesis of language and gesture as a dynamic and integrated system / McNeill, David

9. Psycholinguistics of speech and gesture: Production, comprehension, architecture / Feyereisen, Pierre

10. Neuropsychology of gesture production / Lausberg, Hedda

11. Cognitive Linguistics: Spoken language and gesture as expressions of conceptualization / Cienki, Alan

12. Gestures as a medium of expression: The linguistic potential of gestures / Müller, Cornelia

13. Conversation analysis: Talk and bodily resources for the organization of social interaction / Mondada, Lorenza

14. Ethnography: Body, communication, and cultural practices / Meyer, Christian

15. Cognitive Anthropology: Distributed cognition and gesture / F. Williams, Robert

16. Social psychology: Body and language in social interaction / Bonaiuto, Marino / Maricchiolo, Fridanna

17. Multimodal (inter)action analysis: An integrative methodology / Norris, Sigrid

18. Body gestures, manners, and postures in literature / Poyatos, Fernando

III. Historical dimensions

19. Prehistoric gestures: Evidence from artifacts and rock art / Bouissac, Paul

20. Indian traditions: A grammar of gestures in classical dance and dance theatre / Ramesh, Rajyashree

21. Jewish traditions: Active gestural practices in religious life / Katsman, Roman

22. The body in rhetorical delivery and in theater: An overview of classical works / Dutsch, Dorota

23. Medieval perspectives in Europe: Oral culture and bodily practices / Zakharine, Dmitri

24. Renaissance philosophy: Gesture as universal language / Wollock, Jeffrey

25. Enlightenment philosophy: Gestures, language, and the origin of human understanding / Copple, Mary M.

26. 20th century: Empirical research of body, language, and communication / Bressem, Jana

27. Language - gesture - code: Patterns of movement in artistic dance from the Baroque until today / Foellmer, Susanne

28. Communicating with dance: A historiography of aesthetic and anthropological reflections on the relation between dance, language, and representation / Hardt, Yvonne

29. Mimesis: The history of a notion / Gebauer, Gunter / Wulf, Christoph

IV. Contemporary approaches

30. Mirror systems and the neurocognitive substrates of bodily communication and language / Arbib, Michael A.

31. Gesture as precursor to speech in evolution / Corballis, Michael C.

32. The co-evolution of gesture and speech, and downstream consequences / McNeill, David

33. Sensorimotor simulation in speaking, gesturing, and understanding / Perlman, Marcus / Gibbs, Raymond W.

34. Levels of embodiment and communication / Zlatev, Jordan

35. Body and speech as expression of inner states / Krumhuber, Eva / Kaiser, Susanne / Arvid, Kappas / Scherer, Klaus R.

36. Fused Bodies: On the interrelatedness of cognition and interaction / Hougaard, Anders R. / Rasmussen, Gitte

37. Multimodal interaction / Mondada, Lorenza

38. Verbal, vocal, and visual practices in conversational interaction / Selting, Margret

39. The codes and functions of nonverbal communication / Burgoon, Judee K. / Guerrero, Laura K. / White, Cindy H.

40. Mind, hands, face, and body: A sketch of a goal and belief view of multimodal communication / Poggi, Isabella

41. Nonverbal communication in a functional pragmatic perspective / Ehlich, Konrad

42. Elements of meaning in gesture: The analogical links / Calbris, Geneviève

43. Praxeology of gesture / Streeck, Jürgen

44. A "Composite Utterances" approach to meaning 45. Towards a grammar of gestures: A form-based view / Enfield, N. J.

45. Towards a grammar of gestures: A form-based view / Müller, Cornelia / Bressem, Jana / Ladewig, Silva H.

46. Towards a unified grammar of gesture and speech: A multimodal approach / Fricke, Ellen

47. The exbodied mind: Cognitive-semiotic principles as motivating forces in gesture / Mittelberg, Irene

48. Articulation as gesture: Gesture and the nature of language / Wilcox, Sherman

49. How our gestures help us learn / Goldin-Meadow, Susan

50. Coverbal gestures: Between communication and speech production / Hadar, Uri

51. The social interactive nature of gestures: Theory, assumptions, methods, and findings / Gerwing, Jennifer / Bavelas, Janet

V. Methods

52. Experimental methods in co-speech gesture research / Holler, Judith

53. Documentation of gestures with motion capture / Pfeiffer, Thies

54. Documentation of gestures with data gloves / Pfeiffer, Thies

55. Reliability and validity of coding systems for bodily forms of communication / Gnisci, Augusto / Maricchiolo, Fridanna / Bonaiuto, Marino

56. Sequential notation and analysis for bodily forms of communication / Gnisci, Augusto / Bakeman, Roger / Maricchiolo, Fridanna

57. Decoding bodily forms of communication / Maricchiolo, Fridanna / Di Conza, Angiola / Gnisci, Augusto / Bonaiuto, Marino

58. Analysing facial expression using the facial action coding system (FACS) / Waller, Bridget M. / Pasqualini, Marcia Smith

59. Coding psychopathology in movement behavior: The movement psychodiagnostic inventory / Davis, Martha

60. Laban based analysis and notation of body movement / Kennedy, Antja

61. Kestenberg movement analysis / Koch, Sabine C. / Sossin, K. Mark

62. Doing fieldwork on the body, language, and communication / Enfield, N. J.

63. Video as a tool in the social sciences / Mondada, Lorenza

64. Approaching notation, coding, and analysis from a conversational analysis point of view / Bohle, Ulrike

65. Transcribing gesture with speech / Duncan, Susan

66. Multimodal annotation tools / Duncan, Susan / Rohlfing, Katharina / Loehr, Dan

67. NEUROGES - A coding system for the empirical analysis of hand movement behaviour as a reflection of cognitive, emotional, and interactive processes / Lausberg, Hedda

68. Transcription systems for gestures, speech, prosody, postures, and gaze / Bressem, Jana

69. A linguistic perspective on the notation of gesture phases / Ladewig, Silva H. / Bressem, Jana

70. A linguistic perspective on the notation of form features in gestures / Bressem, Jana

71. Linguistic Annotation System for Gestures / Bressem, Jana / Ladewig, Silva H. / Müller, Cornelia

72. Transcription systems for sign languages: A sketch of the different graphical representations of sign language and their characteristics / Garcia, Brigitte / Sallandre, Marie-Anne

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

3-11-026131-6

OCLC:

863202691