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Reinterpreting gesture as language : language "in action" /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; New York :
IOS Press,
©2012.
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| Colección: | Emerging communication ;
v. 11. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.