language and gesture (language culture and cognition) 2000英文电子图书

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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、cisProfessorofPsychologyandLinguisticsattheUniversityofChicago.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