Pierre Feyereisen

The Cognitive Psychology of Speech-Related Gesture (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Why do we gesture when we speak? The Cognitive Psychology of Speech Related Gesture offers answers to this question while introducing readers to the huge interdisciplinary field of gesture. Drawing on ideas from cognitive psychology, this book highlights key debates in gesture research alongside advocating new approaches to conventional thinking.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351788274
• Artikelnr.: 48959078

Autorenporträt

Pierre Feyereisen is Honorary Research Director of the Fund for Scientific Research - FNRS, Psychological Sciences Research Institute in Belgium.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword 1. Introduction: Matters of terminology and of philosophy. What is
gestural communication about?. Gestures, actions, movements, signs.
Analyses of communication: codes, inferences, social influences. Why are
cognitive psychologists interested in gestural communication? The diversity
of disciplines. Cognitive approaches: the nature of thought. Mental
mechanisms. Research questions - Plan. 2. Speaking hands: inventory of
forms and functions. Pioneers. Wilhelm Wundt (1900): gestures as mental
representations. David Efron (1941): discourse marking by hand movements.
Nonverbal behaviour, a wide-ranging topic. Current perspectives.
Gesticulation and autonomous gestures: break or continuity? Gestures of
monologue and dialogue. Gesture infancy. Gesture impairments in case of
brain damages. Beyond "chirocentrism" 3. Ghosts in the machine : models of
gesture processing. Translucent architectures: gestures reveal thought.
Adam Kendon and the ethnography of communicative action. Susan
Goldin-Meadow: gesture as a window on the mind. Information processing
models. Dynamical models. Pragmatic approaches. Conclusions 4. Production
mechanisms. Do the speakers take perspective of their addressee when they
gesture? Social context. Common ground. Why do some spoken utterances
involve gestures whereas others do not? Activation of visuo-spatial and
motor imagery. Problems in lexical access and in conceptualization.
Performing gestures or not: effects on speech production. How do spoken and
gestural production co-operate? Physical characteristics of oral and manual
movements. Temporal relationships between gestures and speech. Conclusions:
cooperative or competitive relationships? 5. The impact of gestures on
speech comprehension. Is message comprehension influenced by the gestures
of the speaker? How visual and auditory information is integrated in verbal
comprehension? Electrophysiological approaches. 6. Evolution and
neuropsychology of gestures. Does human speech stem out manual skills? Does
gestures and speech involve the same brain regions? Manual preferences in
speech-related gestures. Gesture use by persons suffering from brain
lesions. Neuroimagery of gestural communication. 7. The development of
gestural communication. How do babies learn to read minds and to
communicate their intentions? What is the role of gestures in language
acquisition? Gesture use and atypical language development. 8. Final
remarks