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The chapters cross-reference each other, and engage in inter-disciplinary debate on pointing gestures, a fundamental human communicative behavior, where language, culture, and cognition meet. The volume can be used as a required text in a course on gestural communication with multi-disciplinary ...

The chapters cross-reference each other, and engage in inter-disciplinary debate on pointing gestures, a fundamental human communicative behavior, where language, culture, and cognition meet. The volume can be used as a required text in a course on gestural communication with multi-disciplinary perspectives. It can also be used as supplemental text in advanced undergraduate or graduate course on interpersonal communication, cross-cultural communication, language development, and psychology of language. Contents: S. Kita, Introduction. G. Butterworth, Pointing Is the Royal Road to Language for Babies. D. Povinelli, J.M. Bering, S. Gambrone, Chimpanzees' Pointing: Another Error of the Argument by Analogy? N. Masataka, From Index-Finger Extension to Index-Finger Pointing: Ontogenesis of Pointing in Preverbal Infants. S. Goldin-Meadow, C. Butcher, Pointing Toward Two-Word Speech in Young Children. A. Kendon, L Versante, Pointing by Hand in "Neapolitan." J. Haviland, How to Point in Zinacantan. D. Wilkins, Why Pointing With the Index Finger Is Not a Universal (in Socio-Cultural and Semiotic Terms). C. Goodwin, Pointing as Situated Practice. H. Clark, Pointing and Placing. E. Engberg-Pedersen, From Pointing to Reference and Predication: Pointing Signs, Eyegaze, Head and Body Orientation in Danish Sign Language. D. McNeill, Abstract Deixis and Morality. S. Kita, Interplay of Gaze, Hand, Torso Rotation, and Word in Pointing.

Many varying factors contribute to the dynamics of Chinese communication, which both resembles and differs from its Western counterparts. In this provocative new collection of essays, an international group of scholars challenges the conventional notion of Chinese culture as static, recognizing the ...

Many varying factors contribute to the dynamics of Chinese communication, which both resembles and differs from its Western counterparts. In this provocative new collection of essays, an international group of scholars challenges the conventional notion of Chinese culture as static, recognizing the causes of cultural change and strategies of resistance. Examining communication contexts in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, and comparing them to those of the United States and Europe, Chinese Communication Studies: Context and Comparisons considers the relationship between culture and communication in Chinese political, gender, family, and media contexts, providing the reader with insight both into how enduring Chinese cultural values are, and how they are being appropriated to meet political and economic goals.