The Cambridge Handbook of Gesture Studies

The study of gesture-the movements people make with their hands when talking-has grown into a well-established field and research is still being pushed into exciting new directions. Bringing together a team of leading scholars, this Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of gesture studies, combining historical overviews as well as current, concise snapshots of state-of-the-art, multidisciplinary research. Organised into five thematic parts, it considers the roles of both psychological and interactional processes in gesture use, and considers the status of gesture in relation to language. Attention is given to different theoretical and methodological frameworks for studying gesture, including semiotic, linguistic, cognitive, developmental, and phenomenological theories and observational, experimental, corpus linguistic, ethnographic, and computational methods. It also contains practical guidelines for gesture analysis along with surveys of empirical research. Wide ranging yet accessible, it is essential reading for academic researchers and students in linguistics and cognitive sciences.

手勢研究-人們在談話時用手做出的動作-已發展成為一個成熟的領域，並且研究仍在不斷推進，朝著令人興奮的新方向發展。本手冊匯集了一支領先學者團隊，提供了手勢研究的全面概述，結合了歷史概述和當前的簡潔綜述，介紹了最新的跨學科研究。本手冊分為五個主題部分，考慮了心理和互動過程在手勢使用中的作用，並考慮了手勢在語言中的地位。注意力集中在不同的理論和方法論框架上，用於研究手勢，包括符號學、語言學、認知學、發展學和現象學理論以及觀察、實驗、語料庫語言學、民族誌和計算方法。它還包含手勢分析的實用指南，以及對實證研究的調查。廣泛而易於理解，這是語言學和認知科學的學術研究人員和學生的必讀之作。