Pointing : where language, culture, and cognition meet / edited by Sotaro Kita.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Pointing: A Foundational Building Block of Human Communication / Sotaro Kita -- Pointing Is the Royal Road to Language for Babies / George Butterworth -- Chimpanzees Pointing: Another Error of the Argument by Analogy? / Daniel J. Povinelli, Jesse M. Bering, and Steve Giambrone -- From Index-Finger Extension to Index-Finger Pointing: Ontogenesis of Pointing in Preverbal Infants / Nobuo Masataka -- Pointing Toward Two-Word Speech in Young Children / Susan Goldin-Meadow and Cynthia Butcher -- Pointing by Hand in Neapolitan / Adam Kendon and Laura Versante -- How to Point in Zinacantan / John B. Haviland -- Why Pointing With the Index Finger Is Not a Universal (in Sociocultural and Semiotic Terms) / David Wilkins -- Pointing as Situated Practice / Herbert H. Clark -- From Pointing to Reference and Predication: Pointing Signs, Eyegaze, and Head and Body Orientation in Danish Sign Language / Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen -- Pointing and Morality in Chicago / David McNeill -- Interplay of Gaze, Hand, Torso Orientation, and Language in Pointing / Sotaro Kita.

This volume brings together papers on pointing gestures from disciplines, such as developmental psychology, psycholinguistics, sign-language linguistics, lingiustic anthropology, conversational analysis and primatology.

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