Gestures

Author : Romana Lefevre
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-21
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781452110172

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Rude Hand Gestures of the World by Romana Lefevre Pdf

With this illustrated guide, discover what hand gestures can offend others around the world—and whether you avoid making them or not is up to you. A hand gesture is arguably the most effective form of expression, whether you’re defaming a friend’s mother or telling a perfect stranger to get lost. Learn how to go beyond just flipping the bird with this illustrated guide to rude hand gestures all around the world, from asking for sex in the Middle East to calling someone crazy in Italy. Detailed photographs of hand models and subtle tips for proper usage make Rude Hand Gestures of the World the perfect companion for globe-trotters looking to offend. “If you’ve resolved to make the most of your travels, a copy of Rude Hand Gestures of the World to know what gestures you should avoid while abroad. Better safe than sorry!” —Buzzfeed

Author : Vilém Flusser
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781452941899

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Gestures by Vilém Flusser Pdf

Throughout his career, the influential new media theorist Vilém Flusser kept the idea of gesture in mind: that people express their being in the world through a sweeping range of movements. He reconsiders familiar actions—from speaking and painting to smoking and telephoning—in terms of particular movement, opening a surprising new perspective on the ways we share and preserve meaning. A gesture may or may not be linked to specialized apparatus, though its form crucially affects the person who makes it. These essays, published here as a collection in English for the first time, were written over roughly a half century and reflect both an eclectic array of interests and a durable commitment to phenomenological thought. Defining gesture as “a movement of the body or of a tool attached to the body for which there is no satisfactory causal explanation,” Flusser moves around the topic from diverse points of view, angles, and distances: at times he zooms in on a modest, ordinary movement such as taking a photograph, shaving, or listening to music; at others, he pulls back to look at something as vast and varied as human “making,” embracing everything from the fashioning of simple tools to mass manufacturing. But whatever the gesture, Flusser analyzes it as the expression of a particular form of consciousness, that is, as a particular relationship between the world and the one who gestures.

Author : Francois Caradec
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780262547994

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Dictionary of Gestures by Francois Caradec Pdf

An illustrated guide to more than 850 gestures and their meanings around the world, from a nod of the head to a click of the heels. Gestures convey meaning with a flourish. A vigorous nod of the head, a bold jut of the chin, an enthusiastic thumbs-up: all speak louder than words. Yet the same gesture may have different meanings in different parts of the world. What Americans understand as the “A-OK gesture,” for example, is an obscene insult in the Arab world. This volume is the reference book we didn't know we needed—an illustrated dictionary of 850 gestures and their meanings around the world. It catalogs voluntary gestures made to communicate openly—as distinct from sign language, dance moves, involuntary “tells,” or secret handshakes—and explains what the gesture conveys in a variety of locations. It is organized by body part, from top to bottom, from head (nodding, shaking, turning) to foot (scraping, kicking, playing footsie). We learn that “to oscillate the head while gently throwing it back” communicates approval in some countries even though it resembles the headshake of disapproval used in other countries; that “to tap a slightly inflated cheek” constitutes an erotic invitation when accompanied by a wink; that the middle finger pointed in the air signifies approval in South America. We may already know that it is a grave insult in the Middle East and Asia to display the sole of one's shoe, but perhaps not that motorcyclists sometimes greet each other by raising a foot. Illustrated with clever line drawings and documented with quotations from literature (the author, François Caradec, was a distinguished and prolific historian of literature, culture, and humorous oddities, as well as a novelist and poet), this dictionary offers readers unique lessons in polylingual meaning.

Author : Rolf Inge Godøy,Marc Leman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-02-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781135183622

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Musical Gestures by Rolf Inge Godøy,Marc Leman Pdf

We experience and understand the world, including music, through body movement–when we hear something, we are able to make sense of it by relating it to our body movements, or form an image in our minds of body movements. Musical Gestures is a collection of essays that explore the relationship between sound and movement. It takes an interdisciplinary approach to the fundamental issues of this subject, drawing on ideas, theories and methods from disciplines such as musicology, music perception, human movement science, cognitive psychology, and computer science.

Author : Alan J. Cienki,Cornelia Müller
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027228437

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Metaphor and Gesture by Alan J. Cienki,Cornelia Müller Pdf

This volume is the first to offer an overview on metaphor and gesture a new multi-disciplinary area of research. Scholars of metaphor have been paying increasing attention to spontaneous gestures with speech; meanwhile, researchers in gesture studies have been focussing on the abstract ideas which receive physical representation through metaphors when speakers gesture. This book presents a snapshot of the state of the art in these converging fields, offering research papers as well as commentaries from multiple perspectives. In addition to conceptual metaphor theory it includes different theoretical approaches to semiotics, and the methods used range from controlled experimentation, to cognitive ethnography, to lexical semantic analysis. The use of metaphor in gesture is shown to reflect idiosyncracies of thought in the moment of speaking as well as structural, cultural, and interactional patterns. The series of commentaries discusses the potential importance of studying metaphor and gesture from the perspectives of such fields as anthropology, cognitive linguistics, conversation analysis, psychology, and semiotics.

Author : Desmond Morris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Sign language
ISBN : OCLC:393166138

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Gestures by Desmond Morris Pdf

Author : Roger E. Axtell
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040495942

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Do's and Taboos Around the World by Roger E. Axtell Pdf

Author : Andrea B. Rugh
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781597975926

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Simple Gestures by Andrea B. Rugh Pdf

Overturns common misperceptions about the lives of Middle Easterners.

Author : Wilhelm Wundt
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110808285

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The Language of Gestures by Wilhelm Wundt Pdf

Author : R. Breckinridge Church,Martha W. Alibali,Spencer D. Kelly
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027265777

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Why Gesture? by R. Breckinridge Church,Martha W. Alibali,Spencer D. Kelly Pdf

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.

Author : David McNeill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2000-08-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521777615

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Language and Gesture by David McNeill Pdf

Landmark study on the role of gestures in relation to speech and thought.

Author : Vilém Flusser
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816670208

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Into the Universe of Technical Images by Vilém Flusser Pdf

An examination of the promise and peril of digital communication technologies.

Author : Aliyah Morgenstern,Susan Goldin-Meadow
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110565058

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Gesture in Language by Aliyah Morgenstern,Susan Goldin-Meadow Pdf

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 : Simon Harrison
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781108417204

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The Impulse to Gesture by Simon Harrison Pdf

Establishing the inseparability of grammar and gesture, this book explains what determines when, how, and why we gesture.

Author : David McNeill
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780226561349

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Hand and Mind by David McNeill Pdf

A research subject is shown a cartoon like the 1950 Canary Row--a classic Sylvester and Tweedy Bird caper that features Sylvester climbing up a downspout, swallowing a bowling ball and slamming into a brick wall. After watching the cartoon, the subject is videotaped recounting the story from memory to a listener who has not seen the cartoon. Painstaking analysis of the videotapes revealed that although the research subjects--children as well as adults, some neurologically impaired--represented a wide variety of linguistic groupings, the gestures of people speaking English and a half dozen other languages manifest the same principles. Relying on data from more than ten years of research, McNeill shows that gestures do not simply form a part of what is said and meant but have an impact on thought itself.