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Gesture Studies:
Editors: Adam Kendon, Cornelia Müller
ISSN 1874-6829
Amsterdam : Benjamins Publishing, 2007 -
Gesture Studies aims to publish book-length publications on all aspects of gesture. Topics may include, but are not limited to: the relationship between gesture and speech, the role gesture may play in communication in all the circumstances of social interaction, including conversations, the work-place or instructional settings; gesture and cognition, the development of gesture in children, the place of gesture in first and second language acquisition, the processes by which spontaneously created gestures may become transformed into codified forms, the documentation and discussion of vocabularies of "quotable" or "emblemic" gestures, the relationship between gesture and sign, studies of gesture systems or sign languages such as those that have developed in factories, religious communities of all kinds, such as greetings, religious, civic or legal rituals, gestures compared cross-culturally, gestures in primate social interaction, biological studies of gesture, including discussions of the place if gesture in language origins theory, gesture in multi-modal human-machine interaction, historical studies of gesture, and studies in the history of gesture studies, including discussions of gesture in the theater or as a part of rhetoric.
Volumes in this peer-reviewed series may be collective volumes, monographs and reference books, in the English language.
Volume 1: Gesture and the Dynamic Dimension of Language : Essays in honor of David McNeill
Edited by Susan D. Duncan, Justine Cassell and Elena T. Levy
2007. vi, 328 pages
ISBN 978-90-272-2842-0 : EUR 99.00
In preparation:
Volume 2: Gesturecraft
ISBN 978-90-272-2842-0
Volume 3: Metaphor and Gesture
ISBN 978-90-272-2843-7
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