Lauren Gawne

Gesture

A Slim Guide. Sprachen: Englisch. 21,9 cm / 13,8 cm / 2,0 cm ( B/H/T )
EAN 9780192855077
55,00 €
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196 Seiten
Juni 2025
Oxford University Press

This book provides an accessible and engaging introduction to how we use gesture in communication. Lauren Gawne explores the different categories of gesture and how they vary across cultures and languages, the acquisition of gesture, where it lives in the brain, and its role in both the origins of language and the future of communication.

Lauren Gawne is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Languages and Cultures at La Trobe University. Her research focuses on the use of gesture with speech, cross-cultural variation in gesture, and the use of emoji, particularly the ways text and emoji parallel speech and gesture. She is passionate about communicating linguistics to a range of audiences and co-hosts the podcast Lingthusiasm with Gretchen McCulloch, as well as running the generalist linguistics website Superlinguo.

- Acknowledgements
- List of figures and tables
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Gesture as an object of study
- 3: Gesture categorization
- 4: Gesture across cultures and languages
- 5: Gesture acquisition and use
- 6: Gesture and cognition
- 7: The past and future
- 8: Conclusion
- Glossary
- References
- Index