This book offers a comprehensive, empirical, and theoretical account of the diverse uses of gesture in social and cognitive life, and a theory of gesture that is based ...
This book offers a comprehensive, empirical, and theoretical account of the diverse uses of gesture in social and cognitive life, and a theory of gesture that is based on these diverse uses, combining a coherent, carefully argued theoretical framework.
Culminating in a vivid analysis of gestural practices by various professionals, it shows how gesture can be developed into a highly specialized craft that is indispensable from the communicative labour of various professions.
Throughout Gesturecraft, the view is articulated that gesture is best understood in terms of a holistic or non-dualist conception of communication, which takes as its starting point the active human actor who inhabits a human-made, cultural world with others.
Gesture is also an intensely personal practice, characterized by great differences in frequency and style between individuals, and acquired and enacted in the form of implicit, non-codifiable personal routines. In the final chapter of the book gesture is thus portrayed as a personal skill that is adapted to the specific lifeworld's that the gesturing body inhabits and to which the embodied mind responds.
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ISBN: 9789027228420 |
£76.00 |