The semantics and pragmatics of everyday gestures : proceedings of the Berlin conference April 1998 /

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Imprint:Berlin : Weidler, 2004.
Description:262 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:Körper, Zeichen, Kultur ; Bd. 9
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5539390
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Other authors / contributors:Müller, Cornelia, 1960-
Posner, Roland.
ISBN:3896932535 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
Table of Contents:
  • Towards a lexicography of gestures. The structure of dictionary entries: results of empirical investigations / Massimo Serenari
  • Fare le corna and the invention of a novel: Théophile Gautiers Gettatura (1857) and De Jorio's Mimica degli antichi (1832) or, problems of a gesture-etymology / Feinhard Krüger
  • Russian gestures and Russian phraseology I: Types of lexical information and the structure of lexical entries in a dictionary of Russian gestures / Grigorii E. Kreidlin
  • The Italian gestionary: meaning representation, ambiguity, and context / Isabella Poggi
  • Symbolic gestures and gesturing in comunication / Pio Enrico Ricci Bitti, Silvana Contento
  • Notes on pragmatic and social aspects of everyday gestures / Lluís Payrató
  • Problems and rocedures in the study of gestures / Peter Collett
  • Towares a documentation of gesture uses. Expressive gestures used by classical orchestra conductors / Penny Boyes Bräm, Thüring Bräm
  • Déixis représentative / Geneviève Calbris
  • An ontogenetic universal and how to explain it / David McNeill, Karl-Erik McCullough, Susan D. Duncan
  • Contrasts in gesticulation: a Neapolitan and a British speaker compared / Adam Kendon
  • Body signs: Portuguese communication on three continents / Monica Rector, Salvato Trigo
  • Meta-discursive gestures from Iran: some uses of the 'Pistol Hand' / Mandana Seyfeddinipur
  • The conventionalization of the Ring Gesture in German discourse / Ragnhild Neumann
  • Body and soul: gestures as mediators in communication / Christine Kühn
  • Forms and uses of the Palm Up Open Hand: a case of a gesture family? / Cornelia Müller.