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Pragmatics, Utterance Meaning, and Representational Gesture
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Pages: 96
Authors: Jack Wilson
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-02-28 - Publisher:

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Humans produce utterances intentionally. Visible bodily action, or gesture, has long been acknowledged as part of the broader activity of speaking, but it is on
Recurrent Gestures of Hausa Speakers
Language: en
Pages: 313
Authors: Izabela Will
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-11-15 - Publisher: BRILL

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This book presents a repertoire of conventionalized co-speech gestures used by Hausa speakers from northern Nigeria.
Elements of Meaning in Gesture
Language: en
Pages: 399
Authors: Geneviève Calbris
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing

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Summarizing her pioneering work on the semiotic analysis of gestures in conversational settings, Geneviève Calbris offers a comprehensive account of her unique
Psycholinguistics
Language: en
Pages: 312
Authors: David McNeill
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 1987 - Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

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From Gesture in Conversation to Visible Action as Utterance
Language: en
Pages: 389
Authors: Mandana Seyfeddinipur
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-08-06 - Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Language use is fundamentally multimodal. Speakers use their hands to point to locations, to represent content and to comment on ongoing talk; they position the