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Gesture in multiparty interaction

Shaw, Emily, author

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\"Gesture in Multiparty Interaction confronts the competing views that exist regarding gesture's relationship to language. In this work, Emily Shaw examines embodied discourses in American Sign Language and spoken English and seeks to establish connections between sign language and co-speech gesture. By bringing the two modalities together, Shaw illuminates the similarities between certain phenomena and presents a unified analysis of embodied discourse that more clearly captures gesture's connection to language as a whole. Shaw filmed Deaf and hearing participants playing a gesture-based game as part of a social game night. Their interactions were then studied using discourse analysis to see whether and how Deaf and hearing people craft discourses through the use of their bodies. This volume examines gesture, not just for its iconic, imagistic qualities, but also as an interactive resource in signed and spoken discourse. In addition, Shaw addresses the key theoretical barriers that prevent a full accounting of gesture's interface with signed and spoken language. Her study pushes further the notion that language is fundamentally embodied\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Gallaudet University Press
• Subject: American Sign Language. / Sign language Study and teaching United States. / LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics. / LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Sign Language.
• ISBN: 9781944838430, 9781944838447

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
HV2476.4.S53 2019	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE