Author: Aliyah Morgenstern
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Published: 2021-12-06
Total Pages: 457
ISBN-13: 3110565056
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Through constant exposure to adult input in interaction, children’s language gradually develops into rich linguistic constructions containing multiple cross-modal elements subtly used together for communicative functions. Sensorimotor schemas provide the "grounding" of language in experience and lead to children’s access to the symbolic function. With the emergence of vocal or signed productions, gestures do not disappear but remain functional and diversify in form and function as children become skilled adult multimodal conversationalists. This volume examines the role of gesture over the human lifespan in its complex interaction with speech and sign. Gesture is explored in the different stages before, during, and after language has fully developed and a special focus is placed on the role of gesture in language learning and cognitive development. Specific chapters are devoted to the use of gesture in atypical populations. CONTENTS Contributors Aliyah Morgenstern and Susan Goldin-Meadow 1 Introduction to Gesture in Language Part I: An Emblematic Gesture: Pointing Kensy Cooperrider and Kate Mesh 2 Pointing in Gesture and Sign Aliyah Morgenstern 3 Early Pointing Gestures Part II: Gesture Before Speech Meredith L. Rowe, Ran Wei, and Virginia C. Salo 4 Early Gesture Predicts Later Language Development Olga Capirci, Maria Cristina Caselli, and Virginia Volterra 5 Interaction Among Modalities and Within Development Part III: Gesture With Speech During Language Learning Eve V. Clark and Barbara F. Kelly 6 Constructing a System of Communication With Gestures and Words Pauline Beaupoil-Hourdel 7 Embodying Language Complexity: Co-Speech Gestures Between Age 3 and 4 Casey Hall, Elizabeth Wakefield, and Susan Goldin-Meadow 8 Gesture Can Facilitate Children’s Learning and Generalization of Verbs Part IV: Gesture After Speech Is Mastered Jean-Marc Colletta 9 On the Codevelopment of Gesture and Monologic Discourse in Children Susan Wagner Cook 10 Understanding How Gestures Are Produced and Perceived Tilbe Göksun, Demet Özer, and Seda AkbIyık 11 Gesture in the Aging Brain Part V: Gesture With More Than One Language Elena Nicoladis and Lisa Smithson 12 Gesture in Bilingual Language Acquisition Marianne Gullberg 13 Bimodal Convergence: How Languages Interact in Multicompetent Language Users’ Speech and Gestures Gale Stam and Marion Tellier 14 Gesture Helps Second and Foreign Language Learning and Teaching Aliyah Morgenstern and Susan Goldin-Meadow Afterword: Gesture as Part of Language or Partner to Language Across the Lifespan Index About the Editors
Author: André Leroi-Gourhan
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9780262121736
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Combines in one volume "Technics and Language", in which anthropologist Leroi-Gourhan looks at prehistoric technology in relation to the development of cognitive and liguistic faculties, and "Memory and Rhythms", which addresses instinct and intelligence from a sociological viewpoint.
Author: Naomi Sweller
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Published: 2021-09-14
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 2889713121
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Pierre Feyereisen
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-28
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 1351788272
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Why do we gesture when we speak? The Cognitive Psychology of Speech-Related Gesture offers answers to this question while introducing readers to the huge interdisciplinary field of gesture. Drawing on ideas from cognitive psychology, this book highlights key debates in gesture research alongside advocating new approaches to conventional thinking. Beginning with the definition of the notion of communication, this book explores experimental approaches to gesture production and comprehension, the possible gestural origin of language and its implication for brain organization, and the development of gestural communication from infancy to childhood. Through these discussions the author presents the idea that speech-related gestures are not just peripheral phenomena, but rather a key function of the cognitive architecture, and should consequently be studied alongside traditional concepts in cognitive psychology. The Cognitive Psychology of Speech Related Gesture offers a broad overview which will be essential reading for all students of gesture research and language, as well as speech therapists, teachers and communication practitioners. It will also be of interest to anybody who is curious about why we move our bodies when we talk.
Author: Frank H. Fenno
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2015-03-11
Total Pages: 170
ISBN-13: 9781508829805
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From the Preface. The following work, taught in connection with the "Art of Rendering," has been for a number of years given to pupils in notes, and is now published for the first time. The principles presented in the two books are not vain experiments, for results are manifest in the successful pupils who are filling places as teachers, preachers, readers, lecturers and entertainers. No claim is made to present some wonderful, new and original system, but both new and old that have been tested and found most helpful from Shoemaker, Emerson, Curry, Brown, Murdoch, Bush, Austin, Plumptre, Delsarte and others, are the sources from which this system is formed. In "The Science of Speech" and "The Art of Rendering" are given principles in the simplest, most concentrated form, which might easily be expanded into chapters. The statements are, as far as possible, shorn of philosophic argument, though there is abundant proof for their truthfulness. On account of brevity and so that the principles may be easily understood, no attention has been given to a fine style but, on the contrary, the matter has been treated with homely language and illustrations, with much given in outline, some thoughts even repeated. The "Laws" were arranged especially for a short course at a Chautauqua Summer School. They have since been found useful to busy people. In this work, which is the result of the author's careful investigations during many years, the unchangeable Laws of Voice and Action are developed step by step, formulated and taught. In this Natural Scientific Method of Voice Culture, Gesture, Enunciation, and Modulation the principle is "Not imitation, but strict conformity to the Laws of Speech, and these laws the only basis of criticism." In thus training the speaking voice, the Keynote is Emotion- Adaptation. This New Method, evolved out of old and new truth, is with confidence presented to the attention of all desirous of improving their vocal powers. It constitutes what might almost be termed an exact Science of Speech, based upon the facts: 1, that human utterance depends upon immutable laws and is not subject to the caprice of every speaker; 2, that imitation is not the faculty through which we should acquire knowledge of reading and speaking; and 3, that every person has as distinct an individuality of speech as of feature that should be carefully preserved, grafting upon it excellencies and pruning it of faults. It is an eminently practical system, with no abstruse philosophy and fanciful reasoning. "The Science of Speech" may be used for lessons one day a week in regular daily class work, in connection with the Steps in Rendering and other drill found in " The Art of Rendering" which should be taken up on the other four lesson days; or the two works may be adapted to suit the time for lessons in near this proportion.
Author: David McNeill
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2008-09-15
Total Pages: 331
ISBN-13: 0226514641
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Gesturing is such an integral yet unconscious part of communication that we are mostly oblivious to it. But if you observe anyone in conversation, you are likely to see his or her fingers, hands, and arms in some form of spontaneous motion. Why? David McNeill, a pioneer in the ongoing study of the relationship between gesture and language, set about answering this question over twenty-five years ago. In Gesture and Thought he brings together years of this research, arguing that gesturing, an act which has been popularly understood as an accessory to speech, is actually a dialectical component of language. Gesture and Thought expands on McNeill’s acclaimed classic Hand and Mind. While that earlier work demonstrated what gestures reveal about thought, here gestures are shown to be active participants in both speaking and thinking. Expanding on an approach introduced by Lev Vygotsky in the 1930s, McNeill posits that gestures are key ingredients in an “imagery-language dialectic” that fuels both speech and thought. Gestures are both the “imagery” and components of “language.” The smallest element of this dialectic is the “growth point,” a snapshot of an utterance at its beginning psychological stage. Utilizing several innovative experiments he created and administered with subjects spanning several different age, gender, and language groups, McNeill shows how growth points organize themselves into utterances and extend to discourse at the moment of speaking. An ambitious project in the ongoing study of the relationship of human communication and thought, Gesture and Thought is a work of such consequence that it will influence all subsequent theory on the subject.
Author: R. Breckinridge Church
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Published: 2017-04-15
Total Pages: 443
ISBN-13: 9027265771
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Co-speech gestures are ubiquitous: when people speak, they almost always produce gestures. Gestures reflect content in the mind of the speaker, often under the radar and frequently using rich mental images that complement speech. What are gestures doing? Why do we use them? This book is the first to systematically explore the functions of gesture in speaking, thinking, and communicating – focusing on the variety of purposes served for the gesturer as well as for the viewer of gestures. Chapters in this edited volume present a range of diverse perspectives (including neural, cognitive, social, developmental and educational), consider gestural behavior in multiple contexts (conversation, narration, persuasion, intervention, and instruction), and utilize an array of methodological approaches (including both naturalistic and experimental). The book demonstrates that gesture influences how humans develop ideas, express and share those ideas to create community, and engineer innovative solutions to problems.