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1 online resource (viii, 379 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Summary |
Children begin to gesture long before talking. Gestures, such as pointing or waving goodbye, constitute the principal means of interacting conventionally with others before the emergence of the lexicon. Children continue to gesture after they start to talk, and through to adulthood. In spite of that, some key concepts related to gesture and language acquisition, both theoretical and methodological, still remain unclear and/or are out of consensus among scholars, such as gestures and language acquisition and evolution, multimodal development, form and function in gestures, and gesture classific ... |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Nonverbal communication.
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Nonverbal communication. |
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Gesture.
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Gesture. |
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Interpersonal communication.
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Interpersonal communication. |
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Visual communication.
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Visual communication. |
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Electronic books.
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Festschriften.
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Festschriften.
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Seyfeddinipur, Mandana, editor.
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Gullberg, Marianne, editor.
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Kendon, Adam, honouree.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: From gesture in conversation to visible action as utterance. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2014] 9789027212153 (DLC) 2014027401 (OCoLC)883511022 |
| ISBN |
9789027269270 (electronic book) |
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9027269270 (electronic book) |
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9789027212153 (Hb : alkaline paper) |
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9027212155 (Hb : alkaline paper) |
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