Repetitions in Gesture

Repetitions in Gesture
Author: Jana Bressem
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2021-09-07
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3110697904

Repetitive sequences play a major role as a pattern-building device and are a basic syntagmatic linguistic means on all language levels in spoken and signed languages. Little attention has been paid to investigating them in multimodal language use. Do gestures exhibit different types of repetitive sequences? Do they build complex units based on these types and if so, how is the pattern building to be described? How is the interrelation of gestural and spoken units in such complex units? Is it possible to identify repetitive patterns that are comparable to spoken and signed languages and/or patterns specific to the gestural modality? Based on a corpus-analysis of multimodal usage-events, 7 chapters explore gestural repetitions with regard to their structure, semantic and syntactic relevance for multimodal utterances, and cognitive saliency. Fine-grained cognitive-linguistic analyses of multimodal usage events reveal that gestural repetitions are not only a basic principle of building patterns in spoken and signed languages, but also in gestures. By addressing questions of mediality and multimodality of language-in-use, the book contributes to the investigation of repetition as a fundamental means of sign and meaning construction (crosscutting modalities) and enhances the understanding of the multimodal character of language in use.

Recurrent Gestures of Hausa Speakers

Recurrent Gestures of Hausa Speakers
Author: Izabela Will
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2021-11-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9004449795

This book presents a repertoire of conventionalized co-speech gestures used by Hausa speakers from northern Nigeria.

The Impulse to Gesture

The Impulse to Gesture
Author: Simon Harrison
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2018-08-23
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1108417205

Establishing the inseparability of grammar and gesture, this book explains what determines when, how, and why we gesture.

Coverbal Synchrony in Human-Machine Interaction

Coverbal Synchrony in Human-Machine Interaction
Author: Matej Rojc
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 436
Release: 2013-10-25
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1466598255

Embodied conversational agents (ECA) and speech-based human–machine interfaces can together represent more advanced and more natural human–machine interaction. Fusion of both topics is a challenging agenda in research and production spheres. The important goal of human–machine interfaces is to provide content or functionality in the form of a dialog resembling face-to-face conversations. All natural interfaces strive to exploit and use different communication strategies that provide additional meaning to the content, whether they are human–machine interfaces for controlling an application or different ECA-based human–machine interfaces directly simulating face-to-face conversation. Coverbal Synchrony in Human-Machine Interaction presents state-of-the-art concepts of advanced environment-independent multimodal human–machine interfaces that can be used in different contexts, ranging from simple multimodal web-browsers (for example, multimodal content reader) to more complex multimodal human–machine interfaces for ambient intelligent environments (such as supportive environments for elderly and agent-guided household environments). They can also be used in different computing environments—from pervasive computing to desktop environments. Within these concepts, the contributors discuss several communication strategies, used to provide different aspects of human–machine interaction.

Applied Informatics

Applied Informatics
Author: Hector Florez
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 512
Release: 2021-10-23
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3030896544

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed papers of the 4th International Conference on Applied Informatics, ICAI 2021, held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in October, 2021.The 35 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 89 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on artificial intelligence; data analysis; decision systems; health care information systems; image processing; security services; simulation and emulation; smart cities; software and systems modeling; software design engineering.

Elements of Meaning in Gesture

Elements of Meaning in Gesture
Author: Geneviève Calbris
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Total Pages: 399
Release: 2011
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027228477

Summarizing her pioneering work on the semiotic analysis of gestures in conversational settings, Geneviève Calbris offers a comprehensive account of her unique perspective on the relationship between gesture, speech, and thought. She highlights the various functions of gesture and especially shows how various gestural signs can be created in the same gesture by analogical links between physical and semantic elements. Originating in our world experience via mimetic and metonymic processes, these analogical links are activated by contexts of use and thus lead to a diverse range of semantic constructions rather as, from the components of a Meccano kit, many different objects can be assembled. By (re)presenting perceptual schemata that mediate between the concrete and the abstract, gesture may frequently anticipate verbal formulation. Arguing for gesture as a symbolic system in its own right that interfaces with thought and speech production, Calbris' book brings a challenging new perspective to gesture studies and will be seminal for generations of gesture researchers.

Homer and the Poetics of Gesture

Homer and the Poetics of Gesture
Author: Alex C. Purves
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2019
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0190857927

This book draws on studies of movement, gesture, and early film to offer a series of readings on repetition through the body in Homer. Each chapter presents an argument based on a specific posture, action or gesture (falling, running, leaping, standing, and crouching), through which to rethink epic practices of embodiment and formularity.

Milestones

Milestones
Author: John W. Oller
Publisher: Plural Publishing
Total Pages: 625
Release: 2012-12-20
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1597566799