Conventional Gestures (eBook)

Meaning and Methodology

Richard L Epstein, Alex Raffi (Autoren)

eBook Download: PDF

2018
159 Seiten
Advanced Reasoning Forum (Verlag)
978-1-938421-25-9 (ISBN)

Infos

Conventional gestures are those movements we make, such as waving hello and shaking hands, that are part of a learned, shared, symbolic system. In this book Richard L. Epstein working with the illustrator Alex Raffi examines how such gestures mean and how we can study them. Drawing on their collection of over 400 American gestures, available on the Advanced Reasoning Forum website, they examine problems of methodology and the nature of gestures in relation to the work of others who have studied and collected gestures from various cultures. An extensive annotated bibliography describes and comments on virtually all known collections of conventional gestures.

Inhalt

I Gestures and Communications
II The Methodology of Identifying Gestures
III The Meaning of a Gesture
IV A Grammar of American Conventional Gestures?
V Some Classifications of Conventional Gestures
VI Are There Universal Conventional Gestures?
VII The Evolution of Gestures
VIII Describing and Organizing Gestures in a Gestuary
An Annotated Bibliography of Collections of Conventional Gestures
Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.11.2018
• Reihe/Serie: Conventional Gestures
• Verlagsort: Socorro
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Anthropology • Communication • dictionary • gestures • Linguistics • Meaning
• ISBN-10: 1-938421-25-6 / 1938421256
• ISBN-13: 978-1-938421-25-9 / 9781938421259