TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wundt,Wilhelm
AU  - Blumenthal,Arthur L.
AU  - Bühler,Karl
AU  - Mead,George Herbert
TI  - The Language of Gestures
T2  - Approaches to Semiotics/Paperback Series
SN  - 9783110808285
AV  - P117 
U1  - 808.5 
PY  - 1973///
CY  - Berlin
PB  - De Gruyter Mouton
KW  - Gesture
KW  - Gestes
KW  - gesture
KW  - aat
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES
KW  - Communication Studies
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Speech
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 4. The Psychological Character of Gestural Communication; Acknowledgements; Table of Figures; Introduction; Wundt and the Concept of the Gesture; The Psychophysics of Expression of Wilhelm Wundt; The Language of Gestures; I. Forms of Development of Gestural Communication; 1. Concept and General Characteristics of Gestural Communication; 2. Gestural Communication among Deaf-mutes; 3. Gestural Communication and Primitive Peoples; 4. Inherited Gestures among Civilized Peoples; 5. Gestural Signs among the Cistercian Monks; II. Basic Gestural Forms; 1. Psychological Classification of Gestures; 2. Demonstrative Gestures; 3. Imitative Gestures; 4. Connotative Gestures5. Symbolic Gestures; III. Ambiguity and Change of Meaning of Gestures; 1. The Vagueness of the Conceptual Categories; 2. The Transition of Concepts and the Change of Meaning of Gesture; IV. The Syntax of Gestural Communication; 1. The Sequence of Gestures among Deaf-mutes; 2. The Sequence of Gestures among Indians; 3. Psychological Causes of Gestural Syntax; V. The Psychological Development of Gestural Communication; 1. The Origin of Gestures from Expressive Motions; 2. Gestures and the Origin of Graphic Art; 3. Gestural Communication and Pictography
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