Gesture
A Slim Guide
$58.19
- Paperback
196 pages
- Release Date
11 June 2025
Summary
This book provides a short and accessible introduction to how we use gesture in communication. Gestures are those actions made with the human body that accompany spoken or signed language; they are found in every human community that has language, but are far more heavily context dependent than the linguistic elements of communication. In this book, Lauren Gawne explores the different categories of gesture, showing that their use varies across cultures and languages, and even across specific …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780192855084 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0192855085 |
| Author: | Lauren Gawne |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 196 |
| Release Date: | 11 June 2025 |
| Weight: | 264g |
| Dimensions: | 217mm x 136mm x 12mm |
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About The Author
Lauren Gawne
Lauren Gawne is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Languages and Cultures at La Trobe University. Her research focuses on the use of gesture with speech, cross-cultural variation in gesture, and the use of emoji, particularly the ways text and emoji parallel speech and gesture. She is passionate about communicating linguistics to a range of audiences and co-hosts the podcast Lingthusiasm with Gretchen McCulloch.
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