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In diesem Buch geht es um die grundlegende Frage, wie Sprachverstehen und Situationsverstehen zusammenwirken. Am Beispiel von mundlichen Beschreibungen eines Rundgangs am Potsdamer Platz zeigt die Autorin, wie Zeigegesten mit so genannten Deiktika oder Zeigwortern wie "hier," "da," "dort," "dieser" oder "jener" interagieren, um die eindeutige Lokalisierung von Gegenstanden zu ermoglichen. Dabei steht die Losung von drei Problemen der linguistischen Deixistheorie im Vordergrund: die Losung des Origoproblems (wie ist der zentrale Bezugspunkt (Origo), von dem aus die Gegenstande lokalisiert...

We speak not only with our mouths, but also with our hands. And that is not all: this book advances the argument that the gestures which accompany speech are also part of the material to be considered in a grammatical description of German. Using exemplars from the field of syntax, the study demonstrates that gestures can be typologised and semanticised, that constituent structures can be assigned to them which display the quality of recursivity, and that they can function as attributes in nominal groups in spoken language.

Volume I of the handbook presents contemporary, multidisciplinary, historical, theoretical, and methodological aspects of how body movements relate to language. It documents how leading scholars from differenct disciplinary backgrounds conceptualize and analyze this complex relationship. Five chapters and a total of 72 articles, present current and past approaches, including multidisciplinary methods of analysis. The chapters cover:

I. How the body relates to language and communication: Outlining the subject matter,
II. Perspectives from different...

Volume II of the handbook offers a unique collection of exemplary case studies. In five chapters and 99 articles it presents the state of the art on how body movements are used for communication around the world. Topics include the functions of body movements, their contexts of occurrence, their forms and meanings, their integration with speech, and how bodily motion can function as language. By including an interdisciplinary chapter on 'embodiment', volume II explores the body and its role in the grounding of language and communication from one of the most widely...