From Gesture in Conversation to Visible Action as Utterance

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From Gesture in Conversation to Visible Action as Utterance is written by Mandana Seyfeddinipur and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9027269270 (ISBN 10) and 9789027269270 (ISBN 13).

Language use is fundamentally multimodal. Speakers use their hands to point to locations, to represent content and to comment on ongoing talk; they position their bodies to show their orientation and stance in interaction; they use facial displays to comment on what is being said; and they engage in mutual gaze to establish intersubjectivity. This volume brings together studies by leading scholars from several fields on gaze and facial displays, on the relationship between gestures, sign, and language, on pointing and other conventionalized forms of manual expression, on gestures and language evolution, and on gestures in child development. The papers in this collection honor Adam Kendon whose pioneering work has laid the theoretical and methodological foundations for contemporary studies of multimodality, gestures, and utterance visible action.