Body - Language - Communication: Volume 1

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Volume I of the handbook presents contemporary, multidisciplinary, historical, theoretical, and methodological aspects of how body movements relate to language. It documents how leading scholars from differenct disciplinary backgrounds conceptualize and analyze this complex relationship. Five chapters and a total of 72 articles, present current and past approaches, including multidisciplinary methods of analysis. The chapters cover: I. How the body relates to language and communication: Outlining the subject matter, II. Perspectives from different disciplines, III. Historical dimensions, IV. Contemporary approaches, V. Methods. Authors include: Michael Arbib, Janet Bavelas, Marino Bonaiuto, Paul Bouissac, Judee Burgoon, Martha Davis, Susan Duncan, Konrad Ehlich, Nick Enfield, Pierre Feyereisen, Raymond W. Gibbs, Susan Goldin-Meadow, Uri Hadar, Adam Kendon, Antja Kennedy, David McNeill, Lorenza Mondada, Fernando Poyatos, Klaus Scherer, Margret Selting, Jürgen Streeck, Sherman Wilcox, Jeffrey Wollock, Jordan Zlatev. the first reference work of how body movements relate to language and communication it presents current and past perspectives on multimodal communication from  multidisciplinary perspectives 72 chapters by leading international scholars ranging from cognitive sciences to sign linguistics Introduction I. How the body relates to language and communication: Outlining the subject matter 1. Exploring the utterance roles of visible bodily action: A personal account 2. Gesture as a window onto mind and brain, and the relationship to linguistic relativity and ontogenesis 3. Gestures and speech from a linguistic perspective: A new field and its history 4. Emblems, quotable gestures, or conventionalized body movements 5. Framing, grounding, and coordinating conversational interaction: Posture, gaze, facial expression, and movement in space 6. Homesign: When gesture is called upon to be language 7. Speech, sign, and gesture II. Perspectives from different disciplines 8. The growth point hypothesis of language and gesture as a dynamic and integrated system 9. Psycholinguistics of speech and gesture: Production, comprehension, architecture 10. Neuropsychology of gesture production 11. Cognitive Linguistics: Spoken language and gesture as expressions of conceptualization 12. Gestures as a medium of expression: The linguistic potential of gestures 13. Conversation analysis: Talk and bodily resources for the organization of social interaction 14. Ethnography: Body, communication, and cultural practices 15. Cognitive Anthropology: Distributed cognition and gesture 16. Social psychology: Body and language in social interaction 17. Multimodal (inter)action analysis: An integrative methodology 18. Body gestures, manners, and postures in literature III. Historical dimensions 19. Prehistoric gestures: Evidence from artifacts and rock art 20. Indian traditions: A grammar of gestures in classical dance and dance theatre 21. Jewish traditions: Active gestural practices in religious life 22. The body in rhetorical delivery and in theater: An overview of classical works 23. Medieval perspectives in Europe: Oral culture and bodily practices 24. Renaissance philosophy: Gesture as universal language 25. Enlightenment philosophy: Gestures, language, and the origin of human understanding 26. 20th century: Empirical research of body, language, and communication 27. Language – gesture – code: Patterns of movement in artistic dance from the Baroque until today 28. Communicating with dance: A historiography of aesthetic and anthropological reflections on the relation between dance, language, and representation 29. Mimesis: The history of a notion IV. Contemporary approaches 30. Mirror systems and the neurocognitive substrates of bodily communication and language 31. Gesture as precursor to speech in evolution 32. The co-evolution of gesture and speech, and downstream consequences 33. Sensorimotor simulation in speaking, gesturing, and understanding 34. Levels of embodiment and communication 35. Body and speech as expression of inner states 36. Fused Bodies: On the interrelatedness of cognition and interaction 37. Multimodal interaction 38. Verbal, vocal, and visual practices in conversational interaction 39. The codes and functions of nonverbal communication 40. Mind, hands, face, and body: A sketch of a goal and belief view of multimodal communication 41. Nonverbal communication in a functional pragmatic perspective 42. Elements of meaning in gesture: The analogical links 43. Praxeology of gesture 44. A “Composite Utterances” approach to meaning 45. Towards a grammar of gestures: A form-based view 46. Towards a unified grammar of gesture and speech: A multimodal approach 47. The exbodied mind: Cognitive-semiotic principles as motivating forces in gesture 48. Articulation as gesture: Gesture and the nature of language 49. How our gestures help us learn 50. Coverbal gestures: Between communication and speech production 51. The social interactive nature of gestures: Theory, assumptions, methods, and findings V. Methods 52. Experimental methods in co-speech gesture research 53. Documentation of gestures with motion capture 54. Documentation of gestures with data gloves 55. Reliability and validity of coding systems for bodily forms of communication 56. Sequential notation and analysis for bodily forms of communication 57. Decoding bodily forms of communication 58. Analysing facial expression using the facial action coding system (FACS) 59. Coding psychopathology in movement behavior: The movement psychodiagnostic inventory 60. Laban based analysis and notation of body movement 61. Kestenberg movement analysis 62. Doing fieldwork on the body, language, and communication 63. Video as a tool in the social sciences 64. Approaching notation, coding, and analysis from a conversational analysis point of view 65. Transcribing gesture with speech 66. Multimodal annotation tools 67. NEUROGES – A coding system for the empirical analysis of hand movement behaviour as a reflection of cognitive, emotional, and interactive processes 68. Transcription systems for gestures, speech, prosody, postures, and gaze 69. A linguistic perspective on the notation of gesture phases 70. A linguistic perspective on the notation of form features in gestures 71. Linguistic Annotation System for Gestures (LASG) 72. Transcription systems for sign languages: A sketch of the different graphical representations of sign language and their characteristics