Gesture: Visible Action as Utterance.

IX, 400 p.: Ill. Only the cover is slightly rubbed, otherwise a good and clean copy without annotations. - Contents Acknowledgements 1 The domain of gesture 2 Visible action as gesture 3 Western interest in gesture from Classical Antiquity to the eighteenth century 4 Four contributions from the nineteenth century: Andrea de Jorio, Edward Tylor, Garrick Mallery and Wilhelm Wundt 5 Gesture studies in the twentieth century: recession and return 6 Classifying gestures 7 Gesture units, gesture phrases and speech 8 Deployments of gesture in the utterance 9 Gesture and speech in semantic interaction 10 Gesture and referential meaning 11 On pointing 12 Gestures of 'precision grip': topic, comment and question markers 13 Two gesture families of the open hand 14 Gesture without speech: the emergence of kinesic codes 15 'Gesture' and 'sign' on common ground 16 Gesture, culture and the communication economy 17 The status of gesture Appendix I: Transcription conventions Appendix II: The recordings References Index. ISBN 9780521542937