Adam KendonCambridge University PressEdition: Illustrated, 9/23/2004EAN 9780521835251, ISBN10: 0521835259Hardcover, 412 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.7 cmLanguage: EnglishGesture, or visible bodily action that is seen as intimately involved in the activity of speaking, has long fascinated scholars and laymen alike. Written by a leading authority on the subject, this 2004 study provides a comprehensive treatment of gesture and its use in interaction, drawing on the analysis of everyday conversations to demonstrate its varied role in the construction of utterances. Adam Kendon accompanies his analyses with an extended discussion of the history of the study of gesture - a topic not dealt with in any previous publication - as well as exploring the relationship between gesture and sign language, and how the use of gesture varies according to cultural and language differences. Set to become the definitive account of the topic, Gesture will be invaluable to all those interested in human communication. Its publication marks a major development, both in semiotics and in the emerging field of gesture studies.1. The domain of gesture2. Visible action as gesture3. Western interest in gesture from classical antiquity to the eighteenth century4. Four contributions from the nineteenth centuryAndrea de Jorio, Edward Tylor, Garrick Mallery and Wilhelm Wundt5. Gesture studies in the twentieth centuryrecession and return6. Classifying gestures7. Gesture units, gesture phrases and speech8. Deployments of gesture in the utterance9. Gesture and speech in semantic interaction10. Gesture and referential meaning11. On pointing12. Gestures of the 'precision-grip'topic, comment and question markers13. Two gesture families of the open hand14. Gesture without speechthe emergence of kinesic codes15. Gesture and sign on common ground16. Gesture, culture and the communication economy17. The status of gestureAppendix I. Transcription conventionsAppendix II. The recordings.
