Gestures

Advances in Experimental Social Psychology continues to be one of the most sought after and most often cited series in this field. Containing contributions of major empirical and theoretical interest, this series represents the best and the brightest in new research, theory, and practice in social psychology. Volume 28 includes contributions on arousal regulation, social perception, social norms, and nonverbal behavior.

In Communicating , the anthropologist Ruth Finnegan considers the many and varied modes through which we humans communicate and the multisensory resources we draw on.The book uncovers the amazing array of sounds, sights, smells, gestures, looks, movements, touches and material objects which humans use so creatively to interconnect both nearby and across space and time - resources consistently underestimated in those western ideologies that prioritise 'rationality' and referential language.

In 'Visible Thought', Geoffrey Beattie, the official Big Brother psychologist, shows how being a psychologist helped him gain insights into the link between voice and gesture - saying one thing whilst meaning another.

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.