Integrating gestures : the interdisciplinary nature of gesture

381 Pages·2011·7.449 MB·English

by  Gale Stam, Mika Ishino

Integrating Gestures
Gesture Studies (GS)
Gesture Studies aims to publish book-length publications on all aspects of
gesture. These include, for instance, the relationship between gesture and
speech; the role gesture may play in social interaction; gesture and cognition;
the development of gesture in children; the processes by which spontaneously
created gestures may become transformed into codified forms; the
relationship between gesture and sign; biological studies of gesture, including
the place of gesture in language evolution; and gesture in human-machine
interaction. Volumes in this peer-reviewed series may be collected volumes,
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Editor
Adam Kendon
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Volume 4
Integrating Gestures. The interdisciplinary nature of gesture
Edited by Gale Stam and Mika Ishino
Integrating Gestures
The interdisciplinary nature of gesture
Edited by
Gale Stam
National Louis University
Mika Ishino
Kansai Gaidai University, Kobe University and University of Hyogo
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Integrating gestures : the interdisciplinary nature of gesture / edited by Gale Stam, Mika
Ishino.
p. cm. (Gesture Studies, issn 1874-6829 ; v. 4)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1.  Language and languages--Study and teaching. 2.  Gesture. 3.  Second language acquisi-
tion.  I. Stam, Gale. II. Ishino, Mika. III. Title. IV. Series.
P53.4117I58 2011
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isbn 978 90 272 8720 5 (Eb)
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Table of contents
part i. Nature and functions of gestures
chapter 1
Introduction 3
Mika Ishino and Gale Stam
chapter 2
Addressing the problems of intentionality and granularity
in non-human primate gesture 1 5
Erica A. Cartmill and Richard W. Byrne
chapter 3
Birth of a Morph 2 7
David McNeill and Claudia Sowa
chapter 4
Dyadic evidence for grounding with abstract deictic gestures 4 9
Janet Bavelas, Jennifer Gerwing, Meredith Allison and Chantelle Sutton
chapter 5
If you don’t already know, I’m certainly not going to show you!:
Motivation to communicate affects gesture production 6 1
Autumn B. Hostetter, Martha W. Alibali and Sheree M. Schrager
chapter 6
Measuring the formal diversity of hand gestures
by their hamming distance 7 5
Katharina Hogrefe, Wolfram Ziegler and Georg Goldenberg
chapter 7
‘Parallel gesturing’ in adult-child conversations 8 9
Maria Graziano, Adam Kendon and Carla Cristilli
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part ii. First language development and gesture
chapter 8
Sentences and conversations before speech? Gestures of preverbal
children reveal cognitive and social skills that do not wait for words 105
Claire D. Vallotton
chapter 9
Giving a nod to social cognition: Developmental constraints
on the emergence of conventional gestures and infant signs 121
Maria Fusaro and Claire D. Vallotton
chapter 10
Sensitivity of maternal gesture to interlocutor and context 137
Maria Zammit and Graham Schafer
chapter 11
The organization of children’s pointing stroke endpoints 153
Mats Andrén
chapter 12
Is there an iconic gesture spurt at 26 months? 163
Şeyda Özçalışkan and Susan Goldin-Meadow
chapter 13
The development of spatial perspective in the description
of large-scale environments 175
Kazuki Sekine
chapter 14
Learning to use gesture in narratives: Developmental trends in formal
and semantic gesture competence 187
Olga Capirci, Carla Cristilli, Valerio De Angelis, and Maria Graziano
chapter 15
The changing role of gesture form and function in a picture
book interaction between a child with autism and his support teacher 201
Hannah Sowden, Mick Perkins and Judy Clegg
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part iii. Second language effects on gesture
chapter 16
A cross-linguistic study of verbal and gestural descriptions
in French and Japanese monolingual and bilingual children 219
Meghan Zvaigzne, Yuriko Oshima-Takane,
Fred Genesee and Makiko Hirakawa
chapter 17
Gesture and language shift on the Uruguayan-Brazilian border 231
Kendra Newbury
part iv. Gesture in the classroom and in problem-solving
chapter 18
Seeing the graph vs. being the graph: Gesture, engagement
and awareness in school mathematics 245
Susan Gerofsky
chapter 19
How gesture use enables intersubjectivity in the classroom 257
Mitchell J. Nathan and Martha W. Alibali
chapter 20
Microgenesis of gestures during mental rotation tasks
recapitulates ontogenesis 267
Mingyuan Chu and Sotaro Kita
part v. Gesture aspects of discourse and interaction
chapter 21
Gesture and discourse: How we use our hands
to introduce versus refer back 279
Stephani Foraker
chapter 22
Speakers’ use of ‘action’ and ‘entity’ gestures
with definite and indefinite references 293
Katie Wilkin and Judith Holler
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chapter 23
“Voices” and bodies: Investigating nonverbal parameters
of the participation framework 309
Claire Maury-Rouan
chapter 24
Gestures in overlap: The situated establishment of speakership 321
Lorenza Mondada and Florence Oloff
part vi. Gestural analysis of music and dance 339
chapter 25
Music and leadership: The choir conductor’s multimodal communication 341
Isabella Poggi
chapter 26
Handjabber: Exploring metaphoric gesture and non-verbal
communication via an interactive art installation 355
Ellen Campana, Jessica Mumford, Cristóbal Martínez, Stjepan Rajko, Todd
Ingalls, Lisa Tolentino and Harvey Thornburg
Name index 365
Subject index 367
part i
Nature and functions of gestures