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"The volume sets out to provide a panorama of the diversity of the Francophone Caribbean, an area which is becoming ever more widely studied in Anglophone university departments of French studies. . . . The increasing interest of students of French and Francophone Studies in the Caribbean should ...

"The volume sets out to provide a panorama of the diversity of the Francophone Caribbean, an area which is becoming ever more widely studied in Anglophone university departments of French studies. . . . The increasing interest of students of French and Francophone Studies in the Caribbean should ensure a broader readership, and the volume is wide-ranging enough to serve as a general introductory critical text."

Many researchers claim that emotions arise either from human biology (i.e., biological reductionism) or as products of culture (i.e., social constructionism). Are human emotions best characterized as biological, psychological, or cultural entities? Zoltan Kovecses demonstrates how cultural aspects ...

Many researchers claim that emotions arise either from human biology (i.e., biological reductionism) or as products of culture (i.e., social constructionism). Are human emotions best characterized as biological, psychological, or cultural entities? Zoltan Kovecses demonstrates how cultural aspects, metaphorical language, and human physiology are part of an integrated system. This book challenges the simplistic division between the body and culture by stressing how human emotions are to a large extent "constructed" from individuals' embodied experiences in different cultural settings. Hb ISBN (2000): 0-521-64163-2

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.