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From gesture in conversation to visible action as utterance : essays in honor of Adam Kendon /

Children begin to gesture long before talking. Gestures, such as pointing or waving goodbye, constitute the principal means of interacting conventionally with others before the emergence of the lexicon. Children continue to gesture after they start to talk, and through to adulthood. In spite of that...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Seyfeddinipur, Mandana (Editor ), Gullberg, Marianne (Editor ), Kendon, Adam (honouree.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2014]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Children begin to gesture long before talking. Gestures, such as pointing or waving goodbye, constitute the principal means of interacting conventionally with others before the emergence of the lexicon. Children continue to gesture after they start to talk, and through to adulthood. In spite of that, some key concepts related to gesture and language acquisition, both theoretical and methodological, still remain unclear and/or are out of consensus among scholars, such as gestures and language acquisition and evolution, multimodal development, form and function in gestures, and gesture classific ...
Descripción Física:1 online resource (viii, 379 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789027269270
9027269270