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Sources of Variation in First Language Acquisition
Developmental research has long focused on regularities in language acquisition, minimizing factors that might be responsible for variation. Although researchers are now increasingly concerned with one or another of these factors, this volume brings together research on three different sources of variation: language-specific properties, the nature of the input to children across contexts, and several aspects of the learners themselves. Chapters explore these sources of variation within an interdisciplinary and comparative approach allying theories and methodologies stemming from linguistics, psycholinguistics, developmental psychology, and neuroscience. The comparative perspective involves different languages, contexts of use, types of learners (first/second language acquisition, monolingual/bilingual learners, autism, language impairment), as well as vocal and visuo-gestural communicative modalities (co-verbal gestures, sign language acquisition). The volume points to the need to enhance interdisciplinary research using complementary methodologies to further examine sources of variation and to integrate variation into a more general developmental theory.
From Gesture in Conversation to Visible Action as Utterance
Language use is fundamentally multimodal. Speakers use their hands to point to locations, to represent content and to comment on ongoing talk; they position their bodies to show their orientation and stance in interaction; they use facial displays to comment on what is being said; and they engage in mutual gaze to establish intersubjectivity. This volume brings together studies by leading scholars from several fields on gaze and facial displays, on the relationship between gestures, sign, and language, on pointing and other conventionalized forms of manual expression, on gestures and language evolution, and on gestures in child development. The papers in this collection honor Adam Kendon whose pioneering work has laid the theoretical and methodological foundations for contemporary studies of multimodality, gestures, and utterance visible action.
Gesture in Language
Through constant exposure to adult input in interaction, children’s language gradually develops into rich linguistic constructions containing multiple cross-modal elements subtly used together for communicative functions. Sensorimotor schemas provide the "grounding" of language in experience and lead to children’s access to the symbolic function. With the emergence of vocal or signed productions, gestures do not disappear but remain functional and diversify in form and function as children become skilled adult multimodal conversationalists. This volume examines the role of gesture over the human lifespan in its complex interaction with speech and sign. Gesture is explored in the differen...
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Rhetoric and Cognition
This volume gathers contributions from two disciplines which have much to gain from one another - rhetoric and cognitive science - as they both have much to say in the broad realm of argumentation studies. This collection neither condemns the fallacious effects of specific argument schemes nor adds yet another layer to fallacy criticism, but studies how argumentation and fallacies work, hic et nunc. What are the linguistic and cognitive mechanisms behind the "performance " of fallacious arguments? How do rhetorical strategies work at the interface of cognition, language science and society?
Oralité Et Gestualité
Ce nouveau recueil consacré aux relations entre les gestes et la parole met à jour l'état des connaissances dans une perspective pluridisciplinaire qui recouvre aussi bien la linguistique et la phonétique que la sémiotique et les sciences cognitives. C'est l'occasion d'approfondir l'importance des liens entre l'activité motrice et le vécu biologique et communicationnel de l'individu au sein d'un continuum comportemental multimodal.
Le développement de la parole chez l'enfant âgé de 6 à 11 ans
Propose des analyses des conduites langagières, de l'acquisition du langage, des aspects non verbaux de la communication parlée et de leurs fonctions dans la parole et dans la pensée chez les enfants de 6 à 11 ans.
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Métalangage et terminologie linguistique
This volume contains the proceedings of an international conference held in 1998 (Metalangage et terminologie linguistique, Universite Stendhal - Grenoble III, 14-16 May 1998). The first section contains 18 contributions dealing with foundational issues in linguistic terminology (its status, its constitution, the relationship between metalanguage and terminology, the adequacy of linguistic terminology, etc.). The second section, devoted to the history of linguistic terminology, contains 18 papers dealing with particular stages in the history of linguistic terminology in the West, and 8 papers on the history of linguistic terminology in non-Western traditions (Mesapotamia, Caucasia, Arab trad...
