Reinterpreting gesture as language language "in action"
Gesture is integral to human language. Its function within human communication is as much goal-directed, and subsequently as communicative, as is speech. Indeed, gesture and speech share the same cognitive, psychological and physiological roots. Although the study of gesture has reached maturity as...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Washington, D.C. :
IOS Press
c2012.
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
| Series: | Emerging communication ;
v. 11. |
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798198706719 |
| Summary: | Gesture is integral to human language. Its function within human communication is as much goal-directed, and subsequently as communicative, as is speech. Indeed, gesture and speech share the same cognitive, psychological and physiological roots. Although the study of gesture has reached maturity as a branch of scholarship which endorses a multidisciplinary approach to communication, and is now integral to many of the sciences (psychology, psycholinguistics and ethnology, among others), little attention has been paid in recent years to the phenomena involved - the communicative function of gest |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (224 p.) |
| ISBN: | 9781283433099 9786613433091 9781607509769 |
