TY - BOOK ID - 77916063 TI - Reinterpreting gesture as language : language "in action" PY - 2012 SN - 1283433095 9786613433091 1607509768 9781607509769 160750975X 9781607509752 9781283433099 9781607509752 6613433098 PB - Amsterdam ; Washington, D.C. : IOS Press, DB - UniCat KW - Nonverbal communication. KW - Non-verbal communication KW - Communication KW - Expression UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77916063 AB - Gesture is integral to human language. Its function within human communication is as much goal-directed, and subsequently as communicative, as is speech. Indeed, gesture and speech share the same cognitive, psychological and physiological roots. Although the study of gesture has reached maturity as a branch of scholarship which endorses a multidisciplinary approach to communication, and is now integral to many of the sciences (psychology, psycholinguistics and ethnology, among others), little attention has been paid in recent years to the phenomena involved - the communicative function of gest ER -