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24. Renaissance philosophy: Gesture as universal language

From the book Volume 1

  • Jeffrey Wollock
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110261318.364
From the book
Volume 1
Volume 1

Chapters in this book (75)

Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction
I. How the body relates to language and communication: Outlining the subject matter
1. Exploring the utterance roles of visible bodily action: A personal account
2. Gesture as a window onto mind and brain, and the relationship to linguistic relativity and ontogenesis
3. Gestures and speech from a linguistic perspective: A new field and its history
4. Emblems, quotable gestures, or conventionalized body movements
5. Framing, grounding, and coordinating conversational interaction: Posture, gaze, facial expression, and movement in space
6. Homesign: When gesture is called upon to be language
7. Speech, sign, and gesture
II. Perspectives from different disciplines
8. The growth point hypothesis of language and gesture as a dynamic and integrated system
9. Psycholinguistics of speech and gesture: Production, comprehension, architecture
10. Neuropsychology of gesture production
11. Cognitive Linguistics: Spoken language and gesture as expressions of conceptualization
12. Gestures as a medium of expression: The linguistic potential of gestures
13. Conversation analysis: Talk and bodily resources for the organization of social interaction
14. Ethnography: Body, communication, and cultural practices
15. Cognitive Anthropology: Distributed cognition and gesture
16. Social psychology: Body and language in social interaction
17. Multimodal (inter)action analysis: An integrative methodology
18. Body gestures, manners, and postures in literature
III. Historical dimensions
19. Prehistoric gestures: Evidence from artifacts and rock art
20. Indian traditions: A grammar of gestures in classical dance and dance theatre
21. Jewish traditions: Active gestural practices in religious life
22. The body in rhetorical delivery and in theater: An overview of classical works
23. Medieval perspectives in Europe: Oral culture and bodily practices
24. Renaissance philosophy: Gesture as universal language
25. Enlightenment philosophy: Gestures, language, and the origin of human understanding
26. 20th century: Empirical research of body, language, and communication
27. Language – gesture – code: Patterns of movement in artistic dance from the Baroque until today
28. Communicating with dance: A historiography of aesthetic and anthropological reflections on the relation between dance, language, and representation
29. Mimesis: The history of a notion
IV. Contemporary approaches
30. Mirror systems and the neurocognitive substrates of bodily communication and language
31. Gesture as precursor to speech in evolution
32. The co-evolution of gesture and speech, and downstream consequences
33. Sensorimotor simulation in speaking, gesturing, and understanding
34. Levels of embodiment and communication
35. Body and speech as expression of inner states
36. Fused Bodies: On the interrelatedness of cognition and interaction
37. Multimodal interaction
38. Verbal, vocal, and visual practices in conversational interaction
39. The codes and functions of nonverbal communication
40. Mind, hands, face, and body: A sketch of a goal and belief view of multimodal communication
41. Nonverbal communication in a functional pragmatic perspective
42. Elements of meaning in gesture: The analogical links
43. Praxeology of gesture
44. A “Composite Utterances” approach to meaning 45. Towards a grammar of gestures: A form-based view
45. Towards a grammar of gestures: A form-based view
46. Towards a unified grammar of gesture and speech: A multimodal approach
47. The exbodied mind: Cognitive-semiotic principles as motivating forces in gesture
48. Articulation as gesture: Gesture and the nature of language
49. How our gestures help us learn
50. Coverbal gestures: Between communication and speech production
51. The social interactive nature of gestures: Theory, assumptions, methods, and findings
V. Methods
52. Experimental methods in co-speech gesture research
53. Documentation of gestures with motion capture
54. Documentation of gestures with data gloves
55. Reliability and validity of coding systems for bodily forms of communication
56. Sequential notation and analysis for bodily forms of communication
57. Decoding bodily forms of communication
58. Analysing facial expression using the facial action coding system (FACS)
59. Coding psychopathology in movement behavior: The movement psychodiagnostic inventory
60. Laban based analysis and notation of body movement
61. Kestenberg movement analysis
62. Doing fieldwork on the body, language, and communication
63. Video as a tool in the social sciences
64. Approaching notation, coding, and analysis from a conversational analysis point of view
65. Transcribing gesture with speech
66. Multimodal annotation tools
67. NEUROGES – A coding system for the empirical analysis of hand movement behaviour as a reflection of cognitive, emotional, and interactive processes
68. Transcription systems for gestures, speech, prosody, postures, and gaze
69. A linguistic perspective on the notation of gesture phases
70. A linguistic perspective on the notation of form features in gestures
71. Linguistic Annotation System for Gestures
72. Transcription systems for sign languages: A sketch of the different graphical representations of sign language and their characteristics
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