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Perspectives on Pantomime / edited by Przemyslaw Zywiczynski, Johan Blomberg, and Monika Boruta-Zywiczynska.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Advances in interaction studies ; Volume 12.
- Advances in Interaction Studies ; Volume 12
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pantomime.
- Speech and gesture.
- Nonverbal communication.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (5102 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam, Netherlands : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2024]
- Summary:
- This book brings together authors who are at the forefront of evolutionary linguistics, which challenge the notion that pantomime is merely a fallback mode of expression. This work attempts to unveil the role that pantomime plays in human communication.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Book meta
- Table of contents
- Perspectives on pantomime
- Pantomime within and beyond the evolution of language
- The relations of demonstration and pantomime to causal reasoning and event cognition
- Narrative and pantomime at the origin of language
- Two types of bodily-mimetic communication
- Can pantomime narrate?
- The pantomimic origins of the narrative arts
- The pantomime roots of Sao Tome and Principe Sign Language
- Symbolic distancing in three-year-old children's object-use pantomime
- Gestural mimesis as "as-if" action
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9789027247247
- 9027247242
- OCLC:
- 1419870014
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