Description
Book SynopsisThis book investigates the rich and complex ways in which gesture precedes language development and then is used in conjunction with language over the lifespan.
Trade ReviewNo more handwaving at gesture! The authors of this comprehensive volume examine moving and interacting bodies and minds across ages and languages, across theories and methods.
Gesture in Language is an invaluable resource for anyone who wonders how we manage to understand each other—or, for that matter, to think our own thoughts. -- Dan I. Slobin, PhD, Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley, CA, United States
This volume presents the latest thinking by leading scholars in the field. It is essential reading for researchers interested in the development of language and communication. This is also a great resource for teaching advanced undergraduates and graduate students. -- Sotaro Kita, PhD, Department of Psychology, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
Morgenstern and Goldin-Meadow open a fascinating new chapter on what our hands and visible body reveal about language development, learning, bilingualism, and aging. A must-read game-changer volume for linguists and cognitive scientists who are interested in human capacity for language and cognition in general. -- Asli Ozyurek, PhD, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, and Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Table of ContentsContributors
Chapter 1. Introduction to Gesture in Language
Aliyah Morgenstern and Susan Goldin-Meadow Part I: An Emblematic Gesture: PointingChapter 2. Pointing in Gesture and Sign
Kensy Cooperrider and Kate MeshChapter 3. Early Pointing Gestures
Aliyah MorgensternPart II: Gesture Before SpeechChapter 4. Early Gesture Predicts Later Language Development
Meredith L. Rowe, Ran Wei, and Virginia C. SaloChapter 5. Interaction Between Modalities and Within Development
Olga Capirci, Maria Cristina Caselli, and Virginia Volterra Part III: Gesture With Speech During Language LearningChapter 6. Constructing a System of Communication with Gestures and Words
Eve V. Clark and Barbara F. KellyChapter 7. Embodying Language Complexity: Co-Speech Gestures Between Age 3 and 4
Pauline Beaupoil-HourdelChapter 8. Gesture Can Facilitate Children's Learning and Generalization of Verbs
Casey Hall, Elizabeth Wakefield, and Susan Goldin-Meadow Part IV: Gesture After Speech is MasteredChapter 9. On the Codevelopment of Gesture and Monologic Discourse in Children
Jean-Marc CollettaChapter 10. Understanding How Gestures are Produced and Perceived
Susan Wagner CookChapter 11. Gesture in the Aging Brain
Tilbe Göksun, Demet Özer, and Seda Akbiyik Part V: Gesture With More Than One LanguageChapter 12. Gesture in Bilingual Language Acquisition
Elena Nicoladis and Lisa Smithson Chapter 13. Bimodal Convergence: How Languages Interact in Multicompetent Language Users' Speech and Gestures
Marianne Gullberg Chapter 14. Gesture Helps Second and Foreign Language Learning and Teaching
Gale Stam and Marion TellierAfterword: Gesture as
Part of Language or
Partner to Language Across the Lifespan
Aliyah Morgenstern and Susan Goldin-MeadowIndex
About the Editors
