Gestural communication in nonhuman and human primates
The present article offers a condensed overview, of why a comparative view on gestures in human and nonhuman primates may offer important insights to both: researchers of human as well as of nonhuman primates. It is argued that a comparative view may further contribute to the debate over the evoluti...
| Otros Autores: | , , |
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
J. Benjamins Pub. Co
2007.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | Benjamins current topics ;
v.10. |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798379006719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Gestural Communication in Nonhuman and Human Primates
- Editorial page
- Title page
- LCC data
- Dedication
- Table of contents
- About the Authors
- Introduction
- I. Evolution of language and the role of gestural communication
- The syntactic motor system
- II. Gestural communication in non-human primates
- The gestural communication of apes
- Gestural communication in three species of macaques (Macaca mulatta, M. nemestrina, M. arctoides). Use of signals in relation to dominance and social context
- Multimodal concomitants of manual gesture by chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)
- Requesting gestures in captive monkeys and apes
- Cross-fostered chimpanzees modulate signs of American Sign Language
- III. Gestural communication in human primates
- Human twelve-month-olds point cooperatively to share interest with and helpfully provide information for a communicative partner
- From action to language through gesture
- The link and differences between deixis and symbols in children's early gestural-vocal system
- A cross-cultural comparison of communicative gestures in human infants during the transition to language
- How does linguistic framing of events influence co-speech gestures?
- The two faces of gesture
- IV. Future directions
- Gestures in human and nonhuman primates
- Review of "From hand to mouth. The origins of language" by Michael C. Corballis
- Index
- The series Benjamins Current Topics (BCT).
