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The impulse to gesture : where language, minds, and bodies intersect / Simon Harrison, University of Nottingham, Ningbo Campus, China.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harrison, Simon, 1981- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Speech and gesture.
- English language--Negatives.
- English language.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 231 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom : New York, NY ; Cambridge University Press, 2018.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Revision of the author's Ph.D thesis in English Studies from Université Bordeaux 3, 2009.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9781108417204
- 1108417205
- OCLC:
- 1027128479
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