Body - Language - Communication. Volume 1 (eBook)

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Cornelia Müller, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany; Alan Cienki, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Ellen Fricke, Technische Universität Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany; Silva H. Ladewig, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany; David McNeill, University of Chicago,USA; Sedinha Teßendorf, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany.

Introduction 9
I. How the body relates to language and communication: Outlining the subject matter 15
1. Exploring the utterance roles of visible bodily action: A personal account 15
2. Gesture as a window onto mind and brain, and the relationship to linguistic relativity and ontogenesis 36
3. Gestures and speech from a linguistic perspective: A new field and its history 63
4. Emblems, quotable gestures, or conventionalized body movements 90
5. Framing, grounding, and coordinating conversational interaction: Posture, gaze, facial expression, and movement in space 108
6. Homesign: When gesture is called upon to be language 121
7. Speech, sign, and gesture 133
II. Perspectives from different disciplines 143
8. The growth point hypothesis of language and gesture as a dynamic and integrated system 143
9. Psycholinguistics of speech and gesture: Production, comprehension, architecture 164
10. Neuropsychology of gesture production 176
11. Cognitive Linguistics: Spoken language and gesture as expressions of conceptualization 190
12. Gestures as a medium of expression: The linguistic potential of gestures 210
13. Conversation analysis: Talk and bodily resources for the organization of social interaction 226
14. Ethnography: Body, communication, and cultural practices 235
15. Cognitive Anthropology: Distributed cognition and gesture 248
16. Social psychology: Body and language in social interaction 266
17. Multimodal (inter)action analysis: An integrative methodology 283
18. Body gestures, manners, and postures in literature 295
III. Historical dimensions 309
19. Prehistoric gestures: Evidence from artifacts and rock art 309
20. Indian traditions: A grammar of gestures in classical dance and dance theatre 314
21. Jewish traditions: Active gestural practices in religious life 328
22. The body in rhetorical delivery and in theater: An overview of classical works 337
23. Medieval perspectives in Europe: Oral culture and bodily practices 351
24. Renaissance philosophy: Gesture as universal language 372
25. Enlightenment philosophy: Gestures, language, and the origin of human understanding 386
26. 20th century: Empirical research of body, language, and communication 401
27. Language – gesture – code: Patterns of movement in artistic dance from the Baroque until today 424
28. Communicating with dance: A historiography of aesthetic and anthropological reflections on the relation between dance, language, and representation 435
29. Mimesis: The history of a notion 446
IV. Contemporary approaches 459
30. Mirror systems and the neurocognitive substrates of bodily communication and language 459
31. Gesture as precursor to speech in evolution 474
32. The co-evolution of gesture and speech, and downstream consequences 488
33. Sensorimotor simulation in speaking, gesturing, and understanding 520
34. Levels of embodiment and communication 541
35. Body and speech as expression of inner states 559
36. Fused Bodies: On the interrelatedness of cognition and interaction 572
37. Multimodal interaction 585
38. Verbal, vocal, and visual practices in conversational interaction 597
39. The codes and functions of nonverbal communication 617
40. Mind, hands, face, and body: A sketch of a goal and belief view of multimodal communication 635
41. Nonverbal communication in a functional pragmatic perspective 656
42. Elements of meaning in gesture: The analogical links 666
43. Praxeology of gesture 682
44. A “Composite Utterances” approach to meaning 697
45. Towards a grammar of gestures: A form-based view 715
46. Towards a unified grammar of gesture and speech: A multimodal approach 741
47. The exbodied mind: Cognitive-semiotic principles as motivating forces in gesture 763
48. Articulation as gesture: Gesture and the nature of language 793
49. How our gestures help us learn 800
50. Coverbal gestures: Between communication and speech production 812
51. The social interactive nature of gestures: Theory, assumptions, methods, and findings 829
V. Methods 845
52. Experimental methods in co-speech gesture research 845
53. Documentation of gestures with motion capture 865
54. Documentation of gestures with data gloves 876
55. Reliability and validity of coding systems for bodily forms of communication 887
56. Sequential notation and analysis for bodily forms of communication 900
57. Decoding bodily forms of communication 912
58. Analysing facial expression using the facial action coding system (FACS) 925
59. Coding psychopathology in movement behavior: The movement psychodiagnostic inventory 940
60. Laban based analysis and notation of body movement 949
61. Kestenberg movement analysis 966
62. Doing fieldwork on the body, language, and communication 982
63. Video as a tool in the social sciences 990
64. Approaching notation, coding, and analysis from a conversational analysis point of view 1000
65. Transcribing gesture with speech 1015
66. Multimodal annotation tools 1023
67. NEUROGES – A coding system for the empirical analysis of hand movement behaviour as a reflection of cognitive, emotional, and interactive processes 1030
68. Transcription systems for gestures, speech, prosody, postures, and gaze 1045
69. A linguistic perspective on the notation of gesture phases 1068
70. A linguistic perspective on the notation of form features in gestures 1087
71. Linguistic Annotation System for Gestures (LASG) 1106
72. Transcription systems for sign languages: A sketch of the different graphical representations of sign language and their characteristics 1133