Recent Perspectives on Gesture and Multimodality

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Recent Perspectives on Gesture and Multimodality is written by Anabela Cruz-Santos and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1527536874 (ISBN 10) and 9781527536876 (ISBN 13).

What is gesture and what does it do? What is the meaning of multimodality? What do these concepts signify within the different theoretical approaches to interaction and communication among human beings? Why do we study gesture and multimodality? The thirteen chapters that make up this volume provide answers to these questions. They bring together an eclectic set of recent studies on visible bodily actions conducted by junior and senior researchers and are a testimony to the curiosity and vitality that have always distinguished gesture studies. This young yet rapidly growing field investigates the semiotic features of gesture in relation to speech as integral parts of utterances, the different uses of gestures with and without speech, such as gestures in language acquisition, gestures in the performing arts (music, dance, theatre) and gestures in Artificial Intelligence.