Edited by Sotaro Kita
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, 2003
The origin of this volume is the Max Planck Workshop on Pointing, which
was organized by the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in 1997.
The interdisciplinary atmosphere of the workshop engendered exhilarating
synergy among ideas and findings presented by the participants. This
volume aims to share this excitement with a larger world by putting
together the papers written by the participants and some additional
contributors in the field into one volume. The chapters are written for
this volume and illustrate state-of-the-art findings and ideas from
different disciplines.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgments vii
1. Pointing: A Foundational Building Block of Human Communication 1
Sotaro Kita
2. Pointing Is the Royal Road to Language for Babies 9
George Butterworth
3. Chimpanzees' "Pointing": Another Error of the Argument by Analogy? 35
Daniel J. Povinelli, Jesse M. Bering, and Steve Giambrone
4. From Index-Finger Extension to Index-Firiger Pointing:
Ontogenesis of Pointing in Preverbal Infants 69
Nobuo Masataka
5. Pointing Toward Two-Word Speech in Young Children 85
Susan Goldin-Meadow and Cynthia Butcher
6. Pointing by Hand in "Neapolitan" 109
Adam Kendon and Laura Versante
7. How to Point in Zinacantan 139
John B. Haviland
8. Why Pointing With the Index Finger Is Not a Universal
(in Sociocultural and Semiotic Terms) 171
David Wilkins
9. Pointing as Situated Practice 217
Charles Goodwin
10. Pointing and Placing 243
Herbert H. Clark
11. From Pointing to Reference and Predication: Pointing Signs, Eyegaze,
and Head and Body Orientation in Danish Sign Language 269
Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen
12. Pointing and Morality in Chicago 293
David McNeill
13. Interplay of Gaze, Hand, Torso Orientation, and Language in
Pointing 307
Sotaro Kita
Author Index 329
Subject Index 335
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