Book announcement : Gesture and Multimodal development

[Lorraine McCune]

Dear Michelle,

I will order this immediately! Very exciting. I will be in Paris working
with Maya Hickman 2012/2013, so hopefully we will meet during that time.

Sincerely,
Lorraine



On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 9:37 AM, Guidetti Michèle <guidetti at univ-tlse2.fr>wrote:

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> *Gesture and Multimodal Development*****
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> *Edited by Jean-Marc Colletta and Michèle Guidetti*****
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> Université Stendhal - Grenoble 3 / Université Toulouse 2****
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> We gesture while we talk and children use gestures prior to words to
> communicate during the first year. Later, as words become the preferred
> form of communication, children continue to gesture to reinforce or extend
> the spoken messages or even to replace them. This volume, originally
> published as a Special Issue of *Gesture *10:2/3 (2010), brings together
> studies from language acquisition and developmental psychology. It provides
> a review of common theoretical, methodological and empirical themes, and
> the contributions address topics such as gesture use in prelinguistic
> infants with a special and new focus on pointing, the relationship between
> gestures and lexical development in typically developing and deaf children
> and even how gesture can help to learn mathematics. All in all, it brings
> additional evidence on how gestures are related to language, communication
> and mind development.****
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> *[Benjamins Current Topics, 39] 2012. xii, 223 pp.*
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> http://benjamins.com/#catalog/books/bct.39/main****
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> *Table of contents*****
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> *About the authors*****
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> *Introduction*****
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> Gesture and multimodal development****
>
> *Michèle Guidetti and Jean-Marc Colletta*****
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> *Articles*****
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> Pointing gesture in young children: Hand preference and language
> development****
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> *Hélène Cochet and Jacques Vauclair*****
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> Support or competition? Dynamic development of the relationship between
> manual pointing and symbolic gestures from 6 to 18 months of age****
>
> *Claire D. Vallotton*****
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> From gesture to sign and from gesture to word: Pointing in deaf and
> hearing children****
>
> *Aliyah Morgenstern, Stéphanie Caët, Marie Collombel-Leroy, Fanny
> Limousin and Marion Blondel*****
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> How the hands control attention during early word learning****
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> *Nancy de Villiers Rader and Patricia Zukow-Goldring*****
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> Infant movement as a window into language processing****
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> *Laurel Fais, Julia Leibowich, Ladan Hamadani and Lana Ohira*****
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> Children’s lexical skills and task demands affect gestural behavior in
> mothers of late-talking children and children with typical language
> development****
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> *Angela Grimminger, Katharina J. Rohlfing and Prisca Stenneken*****
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> The type of shared activity shapes caregiver and infant communication****
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> *Daniel Puccini, Mireille Hassemer, Dorothé Salomo and Ulf Liszkowski*****
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> Transcribing and annotating multimodality: How deaf children’s productions
> call into the question the analytical tools****
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> *Agnès Millet and Isabelle Estève*****
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> Mathematical learning and gesture: Character viewpoint and observer
> viewpoint in students’ gestured graphs of functions****
>
> *Susan Gerofsky*
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> “This collection of papers presents a wonderful and vast overview of
> contemporary research on gesture and multimodal development, representing
> multiple theoretical and applied perspectives. [...] It constitutes a major
> contribution not only to the study of gestural and multimodal development,
> but also to the understanding of cognitive and communicative development in
> a more broad sense.”****
>
> *Olga Capirci*, *ISTC – CNR*****
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> “Looking at a variety of languages, input conditions, and contexts of
> language use, these researchers demonstrate how language development is
> necessarily embodied and multimodal. These studies present exciting new
> insights into the dynamic relationships that are necessary for language
> development.”****
>
> *Elena Nicoladis*, *University of Alberta, Canada*****
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Lorraine McCune, EdD
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Graduate School of Education
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