Gesturecraft : the manu-facture of meaning / / Jürgen Streeck ; drawings by Jurgen Groethues and Jacob Villanueva

• Autore: Streeck Jürgen
• Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2009
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (247 p.)
• Disciplina: 302.2/22
• Soggetto topico: Gesture; Communication
• Classificazione: 05.12
• Altri autori: GrothuesJürgen VillanuevaJacob
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-227) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Gesturecraft -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Dedication page -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Manufactured understanding -- What this book is about -- The approach taken -- Ecologies of gesture -- Overview -- 2. Gestures as interaction -- An interactionist approach to gesture -- Gregory Bateson and the ''natural history approach'' -- Goffman's micro-studies of the interaction order -- Context analysis -- Kendon on gesture -- Conversation analysis -- Ethnography -- Praxeology -- Visual research on cultural behavior -- Gesture, gestures, culture, cultures: Some conceptual clarifications -- 3. Hands -- The structure of the human hand -- Evolution -- Grasping: Prehension and comprehension -- Repertoires of manual action -- Exploratory and practical actions -- Hands, worlds, and knowledge -- Conclusion -- 4. Gathering meaning -- The world at hand -- Gestures of orientation -- Clearing -- Tracing: Discovering and drawing lines -- Exploratory procedures -- Disassembling objects -- Making action intelligible -- The world in sight -- Contiguity -- Dwelling -- 5. The turn to the hands -- Gaze, visibility, and talk in interaction -- The speaker's look at the hands -- Utterances designed to turn attention to gestures -- The recipient's orientation to gestures -- Gaze and gesture during searches for a word -- Attentional struggle -- 6. Depiction -- Articulating gesture space -- Motion: Real and fictive -- Drawing -- Handling -- Marking and self-marking -- Mimesis: Depicting action -- The heterogeneity of representational practices -- 7. Thinking by hand -- Gestures of emotion -- Gesture as conceptualization -- Further examples of ceiving -- Models for theories -- Gesture and thought revisited -- 8. Speech-handling -- Kendon's pragmatic-gesture families -- Pragmatic gestures, turns at talk, and kinesthetic feedback. ; Open hands and turn-completions -- Giving and receiving -- waiting to receive -- Mid-turn offerings -- Shrugs -- Moving things aside -- Throwing back (re-jecting) -- Negations -- The open hand before tellings -- Implicit objects -- Verbs of speaking -- Conclusion -- 9. A sustainable art -- Appendix. Data and transcript conventions -- Transcription conventions -- Bibliography -- Person index -- Subject index.
• Sommario/riassunto: The craft of gesture is part of the practical equipment with which we inhabit and understand the world together. Drawing on micro-ethnographic research in diverse interaction settings, this book explores the communicative ecologies in which hand-gestures appear: illuminating the world around us, depicting it, making sense of it, and symbolizing the interaction process itself. Gesture is analyzed as embodied communicative action grounded in the hands' practical and cognitive engagments with material worlds. The book responds to the quest for the role of the human body in cognition and interaction with an analytic perspective informed by phenomenology, conversation analysis, context analysis, praxeology, and cognitive science. Many of the cross-linguistic video-data of everyday interaction investigated in its chapters are available on-line.
• Titolo autorizzato: Gesturecraft
• ISBN: 1-282-16993-9; 9786612169939; 90-272-8982-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910808917803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Gesture studies ; ; v. 2.