LINGUIST List 18.528

Fri Feb 16 2007

TOC: Gesture 6/2 (2006)

Editor for this issue: Maria Moreno-Rollins <marialinguistlist.org>


Directory         1.    Paul Peranteau, Gesture Vol 6, No 2 (2006)


Message 1: Gesture Vol 6, No 2 (2006)
Date: 15-Feb-2007
From: Paul Peranteau <paulbenjamins.com>
Subject: Gesture Vol 6, No 2 (2006)


Publisher: John Benjamins
http://www.benjamins.com/

Journal Title: Gesture Volume Number: 6 Issue Number: 2 Issue Date: 2006


Subtitle: Gesture, ritual and memory


Main Text:

Gesture, ritual and memorySpecial issue of Gesture 6:2 (2006)

Edited by Paul BouissacUniversity of Toronto

Table of contents

ArticlesIntroduction: Gesture, ritual and memoryPaul Bouissac 171–176

The evolutionary socioecology of gestural communicationMarion Blute 177–188

Gesture in evolutionary perspectivePaul Bouissac 189–204

Gestures as embodied cognition: A neurodevelopmental interpretationMarcel Kinsbourne 205–214

The literal and metaphorical inscription of gesture in religious discoursePeter Jackson 215–222

The rhetoric of gesture in cross-cultural perspectiveRobert A. Yelle 223–240

Actors and the body: Meta-theatrical rhetoric in ShakespeareJohn H. Astington 241–259

Book ReviewsKühn, Christine (2002): Körper — Sprache. Elemente einersprachwissenschaftlichen Explikation non-verbaler KommunikationRenate Fischer 261–272

Fernando Poyatos (2002). Nonverbal communication across disciplines. Volume 1:Culture, sensory interaction, speech, conversation. Volume 2: Paralanguage,kinesics, silence, personal and environmental interaction. Volume 3: Narrativeliterature, theater, cinema, translation. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.Pierre Feyereisen 273–282

Recent, new, and forthcoming books on gesture and related topics 283–284Websites 285

ISGS Membership application form 287

Forthcoming events 289–291


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