Gestures in Language Development (Benjamins Current Topics)
Marianne Gullberg, Prof. Dr. Kees de Bot
Gestures are prevalent in communication and tightly linked to language and speech. As such they can shed important light on issues of language development across the lifespan. This volume, originally published as a Special Issue of Gesture Volume 8:2 (2008), brings together studies from different disciplines that examine language development in children and adults from varying perspectives. It provides a review of common theoretical and empirical themes, and the contributions address topics such as gesture use in prelinguistic infants, the relationship between gestures and lexical development in typically and atypically developing children and in second language learners, what gestures reveal about discourse, and how all languages that adult second language speakers know can influence each other. The papers exemplify a vibrant new field of study with relevance for multiple disciplines.
Rok:
2010
Wydawnictwo:
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Język:
english
Strony:
149
ISBN 10:
9027222584
Serie:
Benjamins Current Topics 28
Plik:
PDF, 5.09 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2010