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1 online resource (152 pages). |
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text file |
| Series |
Approaches to Semiotics/Paperback Series ; v. 6
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Approaches to semiotics. Paperback series.
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| Contents |
Acknowledgements; Table of Figures; Introduction; Wundt and the Concept of the Gesture; The Psychophysics of Expression of Wilhelm Wundt; The Language of Gestures; I. Forms of Development of Gestural Communication; 1. Concept and General Characteristics of Gestural Communication; 2. Gestural Communication among Deaf-mutes; 3. Gestural Communication and Primitive Peoples; 4. Inherited Gestures among Civilized Peoples; 5. Gestural Signs among the Cistercian Monks; II. Basic Gestural Forms; 1. Psychological Classification of Gestures; 2. Demonstrative Gestures; 3. Imitative Gestures. |
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4. Connotative Gestures5. Symbolic Gestures; III. Ambiguity and Change of Meaning of Gestures; 1. The Vagueness of the Conceptual Categories; 2. The Transition of Concepts and the Change of Meaning of Gesture; IV. The Syntax of Gestural Communication; 1. The Sequence of Gestures among Deaf-mutes; 2. The Sequence of Gestures among Indians; 3. Psychological Causes of Gestural Syntax; V. The Psychological Development of Gestural Communication; 1. The Origin of Gestures from Expressive Motions; 2. Gestures and the Origin of Graphic Art; 3. Gestural Communication and Pictography. |
| Note |
4. The Psychological Character of Gestural Communication. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Gesture.
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Gesture. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Blumenthal, Arthur L.
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Bühler, Karl, 1879-1963.
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Mead, George Herbert, 1863-1931.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Wundt, Wilhelm. Language of Gestures. Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, ©1973 9789027924865 |
| ISBN |
9783110808285 (electronic book) |
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3110808285 (electronic book) |
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