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Gesture, or visible bodily action that is seen as intimately involved in the activity of speaking, has long fascinated scholars and laymen alike. Written by a leading authority on the subject, this 2004 study provides a comprehensive treatment of gesture and its use in interaction, drawing on the analysis of everyday conversations to demonstrate its varied role in the construction of utterances. Adam Kendon accompanies his analyses with an extended discussion of the history of the study of gesture - a topic not dealt with in any previous publication - as well as exploring the relationship between gesture and sign language, and how the use of gesture varies according to cultural and language differences. Set to become the definitive account of the topic, Gesture will be invaluable to all those interested in human communication. Its publication marks a major development, both in semiotics and in the emerging field of gesture studies.

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• 1 The domain of gesture
• 2 Visible action as gesture
• 3 Western interest in gesture from classical antiquity to the eighteenth century
• 4 Four contributions from the nineteenth century
• 5 Gesture studies in the twentieth century: recession and return
• 6 Classifying gestures
• 7 Gesture units, gesture phrases and speech
• 8 Deployments of gesture in the utterance
• 9 Gesture and speech in semantic interaction
• 10 Gesture and referential meaning
• 11 On pointing
• 12 Gestures of the 'precision-grip': topic, comment and question markers
• 13 Two gesture families of the open hand
• 14 Gesture without speech: the emergence of kinesic codes
• 15 Gesture and sign on common ground
• 16 Gesture, culture and the communication economy
• 17 The status of gesture
• Appendix I Transcription conventions
• Appendix II The recordings

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CHOICE Review

Kendon's fundamental premise is that--willingly or not--human beings continuously inform one another of their intentions, interests, feelings, and ideas by means of visible body action. Though this, of course, occurs whether or not people are speaking, Kendon (Univ. of Pennsylvania) sensibly argues that when people do speak, their utterances cannot be meaningfully interpreted without noting the accompanying visual behavior. The majority of the book deals with the ways in which gestures are and have been studied. The treatment of the history of gesture studies is among the finest this reviewer has encountered, so the book seems destined to become a classic. ^BSumming Up: Essential. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals. S. A. Rollman James Madison University