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Over the past few years, scientists and philosophers have discussed the concept of gesture as promising to overcome hyper-intellectualist conceptions of human beings. Its ascendancy reaffirmed the importance of the pragmatic, relational dimension in human experience and cognitive processes. Many questions arise when we focus on the cognitive role of gestures, especially in the new cultural landscape shaped by the digital revolution. Does the idea of gestures highlight the preeminence of bodily experiences? Does it lead to the thinning of the distinction between humans and nonhuman animals? Do gestures help us rethink the allegedly higher human capacities in an antireductionist vein? Do gestures involve reasoning? Are they purely external actions? Do they serve to communicate, or is all communication a form of gesture? What kinds of social relations are involved in the concept of gesture? According to a multidisciplinary orientation, the book inquiries into the possibilities and issues opened up by attending to a philosophy of gestures in philosophy, sociology, psychology, anthropology, and communication studies. Given the current centrality of gestures, the general aim of the book is to reconsider the meaning of "gestures" and try to answer old and new questions.

PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern. --- Gestures studies. --- Philosophy. --- Pragmatism. --- Social sciences.

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The study centres on the subject of Dance in West Africa, namely a dance of the Ewe in Southern Ghana. Although modernity is having an adverse effect on traditional dancing, it is still important in the society and may be viewed as a mirror of culture. The objectives are to describe the dance and embed this form of expression within a theoretical framework. Every movement has a meaning and in this way it is possible to explain a whole story, a person is speaking through dance.

West Africa --- Togo --- Ghana --- Ewe --- non-verbal communication --- gestures --- body language --- Soziolinguistik

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This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contact

Science: general issues --- Psychology --- visual language --- sign language --- Gestures --- multimodal communication --- compositionality --- Visual prosody --- language acquisition --- Multimodal representation --- visual language --- sign language --- Gestures --- multimodal communication --- compositionality --- Visual prosody --- language acquisition --- Multimodal representation

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Le corps n'est plus seulement un medium et un média de communication, il incarne par ses gestes, postures et attitudes, un mode d'exister dans les gestes professionnels. A travers notre corps, les émotions, les affects, les gestes involontaires, le stress, le désir ou le plaisir, se trahissent malgré nous dans l'interaction pédagogique. La distance des corps, la direction des regards, la qualité du toucher, l'inflexion de la voix, la tenue vestimentaire, l'engagement de notre corps dans l'espace, sont autant d'activités et d'activations de notre corps vivant qui émergent dans le corps vécu (4ème de couverture)

Physical Education and Training --- Gestures --- Gestes. --- Éducation physique et sportive --- Corps. --- Motivation en éducation. --- Pédagogie du corps. --- Étude et enseignement --- Physical Education and Training.

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Dieser Band bietet aufgrund seiner interdisziplinären Perspektive, die Ansätze der Medizin-, Kunst-, Kultur- und Liturgiegeschichte miteinander verbindet, Einsichten in die kulturelle Bedeutung der menschlichen Hand in der Vormoderne. Autorinnen und Autoren aus unterschiedlichen Disziplinen greifen u. a. voneinander abweichende religiöse Traditionen auf und vergleichen diese in einem neuen Licht. Ein besonderer Schwerpunkt liegt dabei auf dem Waschen der Hände (im Christentum, Judentum und Islam), der mit der Hand zusammenhängenden Materialität (Gießgefäße, Handprothesen), auf der Frage des Einsatzes der Hand in verschiedenen Kontexten (als wichtigstes Instrument des Arztes, des Künstlers, in der Masturbation), ihrer symbolischen und liturgischen Aufladung (etwa in der Hagiographie, in Geistergeschichten), auf Gesten (insbesondere Schmähgesten) und der plastischen Abbildung der Hand (mittelalterliche Handreliquiare, medizinische Handmoulagen).

abusive gestures --- aquamanilia --- Schmähgesten --- Reliquien --- relics --- Prothesen --- Polydaktylie --- Aquamanilien --- artificial limbs --- artists' hands --- hand amputation --- Handamputation --- Handwashing --- Händewaschen --- Künstlerhände --- Masturbation --- masturbation --- polydactylia