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Title Why gesture? : how the hands function in speaking, thinking and communicating / edited by R. Breckinridge Church, Martha W. Alibali and Spencer D. Kelly
Published Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2017]
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Series Gesture Studies, 1874-6829 ; Volume 7
Gesture studies ; Volume 7
Contents Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Understanding gesture: Description, mechanism and function / Martha W. Alibali -- pt. 1 function of gesture production -- Section 1 function of gesture production for language -- ch. 2 Representational gestures help speakers package information for speaking / Sotaro Kita -- ch. 3 Function and processing of gesture in the context of language / Ash Ozyurek -- ch. 4 asymmetric redundancy of gesture and speech / J.P. de Ruiter -- ch. 5 Gesture-speech unity: What it is, where it came from / David McNeill -- ch. 5 Supplement Exchange on gesture-speech unity: What it is, where it came from / David McNeill -- Section 2 function of gesture for cognition and social interaction -- ch. 6 function of gesture in learning and memory / Kimberly M. Fenn -- ch. 7 Gestures highlight perceptual-motor representations in thinking / Rebecca Boncoddo -- ch. 8 One function of gesture is to make new ideas: The action-cognition transduction hypothesis / Mitchell J. Nathan -- ch. 9 Gesture in socio-moral reasoning / Leanne Beaudoin-Ryan -- ch. 10 Multi-modal communication of common ground: A review of social functions / Janet Bavelas -- pt. 2 function of gesture comprehension -- ch. 11 Exploring the boundaries of gesture-speech integration during language comprehension / Spencer D. Kelly -- ch. 12 Computational gesture research: Studying the functions of gesture in human-agent interaction / Stefan Kopp -- ch. 13 Making and breaking common ground: How teachers use gesture to foster learning in the classroom / R. Breckinridge Church -- ch. 14 function of gesture in mathematical and scientific discourse in the classroom / Melissa Singer -- ch. 15 Gesture's role in learning interactions: A focus on clinical populations / Jana M. Iverson -- ch. 16 sound of silence: The functions of gestures in pauses in native and non-native interaction / Marion Tellier -- pt. 3 Why gesture? Some theoretical implications -- ch. 17 Understanding gesture as representational action: A functional account of how action and gesture differ with respect to thinking and learning / Susan Goldin-Meadow -- ch. 18 So how does gesture function in speaking, communication, and thinking? / Susan Goldin-Meadow
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Subject Gesture.
Sign language.
gesture.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology.
Gesture
Sign language
Form Electronic book
Author Church, R. Breckinridge, editor
Alibali, Martha Wagner, editor
Kelly, Spencer D., editor
LC no. 2017016293
ISBN 9789027265777
9027265771