Description: Pragmatics, Utterance Meaning, and Representational Gesture by Jack Wilson This Element helps understand the role of gesture in communication by answer the following questions positively: Do gestures communicate? Do people produce gestures with an intention to communicate? It uses evidence from experimental and neuroscientific studies to argue that people produce gestures because doing so improves such predictions. FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Humans produce utterances intentionally. Visible bodily action, or gesture, has long been acknowledged as part of the broader activity of speaking, but it is only recently that the role of gesture during utterance production and comprehension has been the focus of investigation. If we are to understand the role of gesture in communication, we must answer the following questions: Do gestures communicate? Do people produce gestures with an intention to communicate? This Element argues that the answer to both these questions is yes. Gestures are (or can be) communicative in all the ways language is. This Element arrives at this conclusion on the basis that communication involves prediction. Communicators predict the behaviours of themselves and others, and such predictions guide the production and comprehension of utterance. This Element uses evidence from experimental and neuroscientific studies to argue that people produce gestures because doing so improves such predictions. Table of Contents 1. Communication, pragmatics and prediction; 2. Incorporating gesture into pragmatic theories of communication; 3. Experimental studies on gesture comprehension and production; 4. Prediction, communication and gesture; 5. Conclusions; References. Promotional Taking ideas from theory, neuropsychological studies and analyses, this Element proposes a model of gesture production and comprehension. Details ISBN1009013793 Author Jack Wilson Publisher Cambridge University Press Series Elements in Pragmatics Year 2024 ISBN-13 9781009013796 Format Paperback Imprint Cambridge University Press Place of Publication Cambridge Country of Publication United Kingdom Alternative 9781009031080 Illustrations Worked examples or Exercises Audience General Publication Date 2024-02-29 UK Release Date 2024-02-29 Pages 96 ISBN-10 1009013793 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:168642115;
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