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Gesturecraft : the manu-facture of meaning /

"The craft of gesture is part of the practical equipment with which we inhabit and understand the world together. Drawing on micro-ethnographic research in diverse interaction settings, this book explores the communicative ecologies in which hand-gestures appear: illuminating the world around u...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Streeck, Jürgen
Otros Autores: Grothues, Jürgen, Villanueva, Jacob
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., ©2009.
Colección:Gesture studies ; v. 2.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Manufactured understanding
  • 2. Gestures as interaction
  • 3. Hands
  • 4. Gathering meaning
  • 5. The turn to the hands
  • 6. Depiction
  • 7. Thinking by hand
  • 8. Speech-handling
  • 9. A sustainable art.
  • 1. Manufactured understanding
  • What this book is about
  • The approach taken
  • Ecologies of gesture
  • Overview
  • 2. Gestures as interaction
  • An interactionist approach to gesture
  • Gregory Bateson and the ''natural history approach''
  • Goffman's micro-studies of the interaction order
  • Context analysis
  • Kendon on gesture
  • Conversation analysis
  • Ethnography
  • Praxeology
  • Visual research on cultural behavior
  • Gesture, gestures, culture, cultures: Some conceptual clarifications
  • 3. Hands
  • The structure of the human hand
  • Evolution
  • Grasping: Prehension and comprehension
  • Repertoires of manual action
  • Exploratory and practical actions
  • Hands, worlds, and knowledge
  • Conclusion
  • 4. Gathering meaning
  • The world at hand
  • Gestures of orientation
  • Clearing
  • Tracing: Discovering and drawing lines
  • Exploratory procedures
  • Disassembling objects
  • Making action intelligible
  • The world in sight
  • Contiguity
  • Dwelling
  • 5. The turn to the hands
  • Gaze, visibility, and talk in interaction
  • The speaker's look at the hands
  • Utterances designed to turn attention to gestures
  • The recipient's orientation to gestures
  • Gaze and gesture during searches for a word
  • Attentional struggle
  • 6. Depiction
  • Articulating gesture space
  • Motion: Real and fictive
  • Drawing
  • Handling
  • Marking and self-marking
  • Mimesis: Depicting action
  • The heterogeneity of representational practices
  • 7. Thinking by hand
  • Gestures of emotion
  • Gesture as conceptualization
  • Further examples of ceiving
  • Models for theories
  • Gesture and thought revisited
  • 8. Speech-handling
  • Kendon's pragmatic-gesture families
  • Pragmatic gestures, turns at talk, and kinesthetic feedback
  • Open hands and turn-completions
  • Giving and receiving; waiting to receive
  • Mid-turn offerings
  • Shrugs
  • Moving things aside
  • Throwing back (re-jecting)
  • Negations
  • The open hand before tellings
  • Implicit objects
  • Verbs of speaking
  • Conclusion
  • 9. A sustainable art
  • Appendix. Data and transcript conventions
  • Transcription conventions.