Reinterpreting gesture as language : language "in action" / Nicla Rossini.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Gesture is integral to human language. Its function within human communication is as much goal-directed, and subsequently as communicative, as is speech. Indeed, gesture and speech share the same cognitive, psychological and physiological roots. Although the study of gesture has reached maturity as a branch of scholarship which endorses a multidisciplinary approach to communication, and is now integral to many of the sciences (psychology, psycholinguistics and ethnology, among others), little attention has been paid in recent years to the phenomena involved - the communicative function of gest.

Title Page; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Index of Figures; Index of Tables; Contents; Introduction; Precise; Non-Verbal Communication: Towards a Definition; Overview; State of the Art; The Place for Linguistics; Non-verbal Communication vs. Non-verbal Behaviour: Towards a Definition; Summary; Defining Gesture; Overview; What Is Gesture? Getting More Focused; Terminological Note About the Classification of Gestures: Adopting McNeill's Model; Summary; The Cognitive Foundations of Gesture; Overview; On the Psychological Foundations of Gesture: Is Gesture "Non-Verbal"?

The Functions of Gesture Within Communicative ActsThe Emergence of Gesture in Infants; Gesture and Aphasia; Gesture in Blind Subjects; Towards the Interpretation of Gesture as a Prototype Category: Gestures for the Speaker?; Overview; Gestures for the Speaker? State of the Art; Reinterpreting Gesture as a Prototype Category; Results; Is Gesture Communicative?; Summary; Language "in Action"; Overview; The Neurological Correlates of Language; Gesture in the Brain: Experiment on Gesture-Speech Synchronisation in Multi-Tasking Activities; State of the Art; Experiment Setting; Results.

Discussion and Further ResearchSummary; Gesture in Deaf Orally-Educated Subjects: An Experiment; Overview; The Experiment; Analysis of the Data; Gesture in Deaf Subjects: Some Remarkable Phenomena; Locus; Point of Articulation; Gesturing Rate; Why Do We Gesture? First Conclusions; Summary; Reintegrating Gesture: Towards a New Parsing Model; Overview; The Audio-Visual Communication System; About the Morphology of Gesture; Handling Recursion; Existing Models; Towards a Computational Model for AVC Parsing; Summary; Private Language; Overview; State of the Art; The Map-Task Experiment.

Co-Verbal Gestures and Other Non-Verbal Cues in Map-Task Activities: Language for the SelfA Case Study of Map-Task Activity: Full Transcripts; Co-Verbal Gestures and Planning in Conditions of Blocked Visibility and Face-to-Face: An Overall View; Lateralization Phenomena in Gesture; Instances of Lateralized Gestural Processing; Discussion; Summary; The Importance of Gesture and Other Non-Verbal Cues in Human-Machine Interaction: Applications; Overview; State of the Art; Architecture of ECAs; Architecture of a Robot; Expressions and Gestures in Artificial Agents.

Patterns of Synchronisation of Non-Verbal Cues and Speech in Agents: Analysis of Common ProblemsProposal for a More "Natural" Agent; Summary; Conclusions; References; Appendix I; Appendix II; Index of Topics; Index of Authors.

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