Integrating Gestures

Author : Gale Stam,Mika Ishino
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027228451

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Integrating Gestures by Gale Stam,Mika Ishino Pdf

Gestures are ubiquitous and natural in our everyday life. They convey information about culture, discourse, thought, intentionality, emotion, intersubjectivity, cognition, and first and second language acquisition. Additionally, they are used by non-human primates to communicate with their peers and with humans. Consequently, the modern field of gesture studies has attracted researchers from a number of different disciplines such as anthropology, cognitive science, communication, neuroscience, psycholinguistics, primatology, psychology, robotics, sociology and semiotics. This volume presents an overview of the depth and breadth of current research in gesture. Its focus is on the interdisciplinary nature of gesture. The twenty-six chapters included in the volume are divided into six sections or themes: the nature and functions of gesture, first language development and gesture, second language effects on gesture, gesture in the classroom and in problem solving, gesture aspects of discourse and interaction, and gestural analysis of music and dance.

Author : Silva Ladewig
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110668568

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Integrating Gestures by Silva Ladewig Pdf

Gestures are now viewed as an integral part of spoken language. But little attention has been paid to the recipients’ cognitive processes of integrating both gesture and speech. How do people understand a speaker’s gestures when inserted into gaps in the flow of speech? What cognitive-semiotic mechanisms allow this integration to occur? And what linguistic and gestural properties do people draw on when construing multimodal meaning? This book offers answers by investigating multimodal utterances in which speech is replaced by gestures. Through fine-grained cognitive-linguistic and cognitive-semiotic analyses of multimodal utterances combined with naturalistic perception experiments, six chapters explore gestures’ potential to realize grammatical notions of nouns and verbs and to integrate with speech by merging into multimodal syntactic constructions. Analyses of speech-replacing gestures and a range of related phenomena compel us to consider gestures as well as spoken and signed language as manifestations of the same conceptual system. An overarching framework is proposed for studying these different modalities together – a multimodal cognitive grammar.

Author : Naomi Sweller,Kazuki Sekine,Autumn Hostetter
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889713127

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Gesture-Speech Integration: Combining Gesture and Speech to Create Understanding by Naomi Sweller,Kazuki Sekine,Autumn Hostetter Pdf

Author : Silva Ladewig
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-07-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110668650

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Integrating Gestures by Silva Ladewig Pdf

Gestures are now viewed as an integral part of spoken language. But little attention has been paid to the recipients’ cognitive processes of integrating both gesture and speech. How do people understand a speaker’s gestures when inserted into gaps in the flow of speech? What cognitive-semiotic mechanisms allow this integration to occur? And what linguistic and gestural properties do people draw on when construing multimodal meaning? This book offers answers by investigating multimodal utterances in which speech is replaced by gestures. Through fine-grained cognitive-linguistic and cognitive-semiotic analyses of multimodal utterances combined with naturalistic perception experiments, six chapters explore gestures’ potential to realize grammatical notions of nouns and verbs and to integrate with speech by merging into multimodal syntactic constructions. Analyses of speech-replacing gestures and a range of related phenomena compel us to consider gestures as well as spoken and signed language as manifestations of the same conceptual system. An overarching framework is proposed for studying these different modalities together – a multimodal cognitive grammar.

Author : Matthias Gauger
Publisher : Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783832524692

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Integration of Wireless Sensor Networks in Pervasive Computing Scenarios by Matthias Gauger Pdf

Using wireless sensor networks as part of pervasive computing scenarios is a difficult problem. It involves providing functionality and node behavior required by pervasive computing applications given the very limited capabilities and the constraints of wireless sensor nodes. The goal of this work is to investigate the problem of integrating wireless sensor nodes and wireless sensor networks in pervasive computing scenarios and to develop solutions that facilitate such an integration. Based on an analysis of both research areas, of their specific properties and requirements as well as the similarities and differences of the two fields, we identify and discuss a set of five fundamental problem areas that complicate the integration of sensor networks and pervasive computing: communication, network setup and configuration, user experience, security and flexibility and adaptability. In the main part of this work, we then introduce a total of six solution approaches that deal with different aspects of the identified problem areas.

Author : Brian MacWhinney,William O'Grady
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 652 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781118301753

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The Handbook of Language Emergence by Brian MacWhinney,William O'Grady Pdf

This authoritative handbook explores the latest integrated theory for understanding human language, offering the most inclusive text yet published on the rapidly evolving emergentist paradigm. Brings together an international team of contributors, including the most prominent advocates of linguistic emergentism Focuses on the ways in which the learning, processing, and structure of language emerge from a competing set of cognitive, communicative, and biological constraints Examines forces on widely divergent timescales, from instantaneous neurolinguistic processing to historical changes and language evolution Addresses key theoretical, empirical, and methodological issues, making this handbook the most rigorous examination of emergentist linguistic theory ever

Author : Julia Hüttner,Christiane Dalton-Puffer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781040088586

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Building Disciplinary Literacies in Content and Language Integrated Learning by Julia Hüttner,Christiane Dalton-Puffer Pdf

Hüttner and Dalton present research demonstrating the tangible benefits of the long-term sustainability of Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) on participants’ educational outcomes. The chapters outline the argument that the main benefit of CLIL lies in the fact that learners acquire specific literacy practices linked to the curricular subjects they study via the CLIL language and that these go beyond what is commonly learned and studied within a foreign language curriculum. The book provides an orientation as to how such disciplinary literacy or literacies can be conceptualised and understood, and introduces several models that have served to make disciplinary literacies graspable and visible. The various chapters showcase research and development projects from different geographical and educational contexts and therefore elaborate ideas around disciplinary literacies from different vantage points. This book aims at a wide and varied readership, including graduate students studying applied linguistics, foreign language education, and/or teaching methodology; language teachers; content subject teachers with an interest in the linguistic side of their subject; and teacher trainers.

Author : Luca Tonin,Emanuele Menegatti,Damien Coyle
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-07
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9782889666737

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Advances in the Integration of Brain-Machine Interfaces and Robotic Devices by Luca Tonin,Emanuele Menegatti,Damien Coyle Pdf

Author : Aliyah Morgenstern,Susan Goldin-Meadow
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110567526

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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 : Holger Diessel,Kenny Coventry,Harmen Gudde,Olga Capirci
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889667826

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Demonstratives, Deictic Pointing and the Conceptualization of Space by Holger Diessel,Kenny Coventry,Harmen Gudde,Olga Capirci Pdf

Author : Xiao Yan Su,L. Goldschlager,Balasubramaniam Srinivasan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : User interfaces (Computer systems)
ISBN : OCLC:34268349

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Integrating Gestures Into the User Interface Management System by Xiao Yan Su,L. Goldschlager,Balasubramaniam Srinivasan Pdf

Abstract: "This paper describes a gesture as an alternative for users to convey their commands to the user interface, and discusses the representations of a gesture and the recognition algorithm. The system integrates gesture commands into direct manipulation, so that issuing a command and manipulating an object can be done in one stroke. The idea of high-level representations of gestures and the algorithm for detecting a circle are our contributions to gesture recognition. The advantage of our representations is that the number of the representations required to represent a gesture is small (2 to 4 for the 26 small letters and the 10 digits), so we can save storage space as well as time for the look-up process. The advantage of our detecting alogrithm is that it is good at handling circular gestures. Since many letters and digits contain a circle-like component when hand written, successful recognition of a circle or near-circle increases the success rate of gestural recognition. The system can be trained by each end user to accept variations for any gesture. The number of samples required is small."

Author : Kohsia Samuel Huang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCSD:31822009443904

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Multilevel Analysis of Human Body, Face, and Gestures with Networked Omni Video Array by Kohsia Samuel Huang Pdf

Author : R. Breckinridge Church,Martha W. Alibali,Spencer D. Kelly
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 43,5 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 : Jeff Slutsky,Michael Aun
Publisher : Dearborn Trade
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : PSU:000048589222

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The Toastmasters International Guide to Successful Speaking by Jeff Slutsky,Michael Aun Pdf

For everyone who needs to communicate effectively before groups from two to 2,000, this volume teaches readers the best places to start, and how to build their speaking experiences while enhancing their careers, business reputations, and serving the community. Includes tips, techniques and strategies made famous by Toastmaster's International.

Author : Pierre Feyereisen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781351788274

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The Cognitive Psychology of Speech-Related Gesture by Pierre Feyereisen Pdf

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.