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1、Thislandmarkstudyexaminestheroleofgesturesinrelationtospeechandthought.Leadingscholars,includingpsychologists,linguists,andanthropologists,offerstate-of-the-artanalysestodemonstratethatges-turesarenotmerelyanembellishmentofspeechbutareintegralpartsoflanguageitself.LanguageandGestureo
2、ffersawiderangeoftheoreticalapproaches,withemphasisnotsimplyonbehavioraldescriptionsbutalsoontheunderlyingprocesses.Thebookhasstrongcross-linguisticandcross-culturalcomponents,examininggesturesbyspeakersofMayan,Australian,andEastAsianaswellasEnglishandotherEuropeanlan-guages.Theconte
3、ntisdiverse,includingchaptersongesturesduringaphasiaandseverestuttering,thefirstemergenceofspeech–gesturecom-binationsinchildren,andasectiononsignlanguage.Inarapidlygrowingfieldofstudythisvolumeopensuptheagendaforresearchintoanewapproachinunderstandinglanguage,thought,andsociety.
4、cisProfessorofPsychologyandLinguisticsattheUniversityofChicago.HeisauthorofHandandMind:WhatGesturesRevealaboutThought.Language,cultureandcognition2LanguageandgestureLanguage,cultureandcognitionGeneraleditorSTEPHENCLEVINSONMaxPlanckInstituteforPsycholinguistics,NijmegenThisseri
5、eslooksattheroleoflanguageinhumancognition–languageinbothitsuniversal,psychologicalaspectsanditsvariable,culturalaspects.Studieswillfocusontherelationbetweensemanticandconceptualcategoriesandprocesses,especiallyastheseareilluminatedbycross-linguisticandcross-culturalstudies,thestudy
6、oflanguageacquisitionandconceptualdevelopment,andthestudyoftherelationofspeechproductionandcomprehensiontootherkindsofbehaviourinculturalcontext.Bookscomeprincipally,thoughnotexclusively,fromresearchassociatedwiththeMaxPlanckInstituteforPsycholinguisticsinNijmegen,andinparticularthe
7、cognitiveAnthropologyResearchGroup.1.JanNuytsandEricPedersen(eds.)Languageandconceptualization2.DavidMcNeill(ed.)Languageandgesture3.MelissaBowermanandStephenLevinson(eds.)Languageacquisitionandconceptualdevelopment4.GunterSenft(ed.),SystemsofnominalclassificationLanguageandGestureEd
8、itedbyDavidMcNeillU