Gesture and Multimodal Development: 39 (Benjamins Current Topics) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9027202583 ISBN 13: 9789027202581

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co, 2012

Synopsis

We gesture while we talk and children use gestures prior to words to communicate during the first year. Later, as words become the preferred form of communication, children continue to gesture to reinforce or extend the spoken messages or even to replace them. This volume, originally published as a Special Issue of Gesture 10:2/3 (2010), brings together studies from language acquisition and developmental psychology. It provides a review of common theoretical, methodological and empirical themes, and the contributions address topics such as gesture use in prelinguistic infants with a special and new focus on pointing, the relationship between gestures and lexical development in typically developing and deaf children and even how gesture can help to learn mathematics. All in all, it brings additional evidence on how gestures are related to language, communication and mind development.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Co
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9027202583
• ISBN 13: 9789027202581
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 235
• Editor: Colletta Jean-Marc, Guidetti Michèle