TY - BOOK ID - 77939870 TI - From gesture in conversation to visible action as utterance : essays in honor of Adam Kendon AU - Kendon, Adam AU - Gullberg, Marianne AU - Seyfeddinipur, Mandana PY - 2014 SN - 9027269270 9789027269270 9789027212153 9027212155 1306977614 PB - Amsterdam, Netherlands ; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : John Benjamins Publishing Company, DB - UniCat KW - Nonverbal communication. KW - Gesture. KW - Interpersonal communication. KW - Visual communication. KW - Graphic communication KW - Imaginal communication KW - Pictorial communication KW - Communication KW - Interpersonal relations KW - Mudra KW - Acting KW - Body language KW - Elocution KW - Movement (Acting) KW - Oratory KW - Sign language KW - Non-verbal communication KW - Expression UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77939870 AB - Children begin to gesture long before talking. Gestures, such as pointing or waving goodbye, constitute the principal means of interacting conventionally with others before the emergence of the lexicon. Children continue to gesture after they start to talk, and through to adulthood. In spite of that, some key concepts related to gesture and language acquisition, both theoretical and methodological, still remain unclear and/or are out of consensus among scholars, such as gestures and language acquisition and evolution, multimodal development, form and function in gestures, and gesture classific ER -