| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 339 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Pointing: A Foundational Building Block of Human Communication / Sotaro Kita -- Pointing Is the Royal Road to Language for Babies / George Butterworth -- Chimpanzees Pointing: Another Error of the Argument by Analogy? / Daniel J. Povinelli, Jesse M. Bering, and Steve Giambrone -- From Index-Finger Extension to Index-Finger Pointing: Ontogenesis of Pointing in Preverbal Infants / Nobuo Masataka -- Pointing Toward Two-Word Speech in Young Children / Susan Goldin-Meadow and Cynthia Butcher -- Pointing by Hand in Neapolitan / Adam Kendon and Laura Versante -- How to Point in Zinacantan / John B. Haviland -- Why Pointing With the Index Finger Is Not a Universal (in Sociocultural and Semiotic Terms) / David Wilkins -- Pointing as Situated Practice / Herbert H. Clark -- From Pointing to Reference and Predication: Pointing Signs, Eyegaze, and Head and Body Orientation in Danish Sign Language / Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen -- Pointing and Morality in Chicago / David McNeill -- Interplay of Gaze, Hand, Torso Orientation, and Language in Pointing / Sotaro Kita |
| Summary |
This volume brings together papers on pointing gestures from disciplines, such as developmental psychology, psycholinguistics, sign-language linguistics, lingiustic anthropology, conversational analysis and primatology |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Pointing (Gesture)
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Nonverbal communication.
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Communication and culture.
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Nonverbal Communication
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77.63 social interaction and relations.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Communication Studies.
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Communication and culture
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Nonverbal communication
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Pointing (Gesture)
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Non-verbale communicatie.
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Gebaren.
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Comunicação não-verbal.
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Gestos.
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Comunicação (cultura)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kita, Sotaro, 1963-
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| LC no. |
2002070057 |
| ISBN |
1410607747 |
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9781410607744 |
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9780805840148 |
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0805840141 |
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