RSSBook: Body – Language – Communication
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Title: Body – Language – Communication
Subtitle: An International Handbook on Multimodality in Human Interaction Volume 1
Series Title: Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft / Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science (HSK) 38/1
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
http://www.degruyter.com/mouton
Book URL: http://www.degruyter.com/view/product/38327?format=G
Editor: Cornelia Müller
Editor: Alan Cienki
Editor: Ellen Fricke
Editor: Silva H. Ladewig
Editor: David McNeill
Editor: Sedinha Teßendorf
Electronic: ISBN: 9783110261318 Pages: 1138 Price: Europe EURO 299.00
Hardback: ISBN: 9783110209624 Pages: 1138 Price: Europe EURO 299.00
Abstract:
Questions of multimodal communication, language and embodiment have become pertinent in a wide range of research areas: cognitive science, psychology, linguistics, computer science, anthropology, sociology, semiotics, and art. What is lacking is an overview of this fast growing but highly diverse field. This reference work provides encompassing documentation of how body movements relate to language and communication. Chapters authored by leading scholars outline the scope of the phenomenon, present current and past approaches, and provide multidisciplinary methods of analysis.
It offers a perspective on the body as ‘part’ and ‘partner’ of language and communication and contributes to some of the current key issues of the humanities and the sciences: the multimodal nature of language and communication, embodiment as a resource for meaning-making and conceptualisation and as felt experience, and the emergence and evolution of language from body movements. It overcomes the longstanding dichotomy represented in the concepts of verbal and nonverbal communication, and promotes an incorporation of the body as integral part of language and communication. In 5 chapters the handbook documents the bodily and embodied nature of language.
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