Psychology Press Pointing: Where Language, Culture, and Cognition Meet - Psychology Press

Pointing: Where Language, Culture, and Cognition Meet offers a comprehensive look at a subject that has long fascinated scholars across multiple fields. While research on pointing gestures has been spread across many different publications and disciplines, this collection brings those scattered ideas into one central location. This book serves as a dedicated arena for interdisciplinary exchange. It gathers significant papers on pointing gestures from a wide range of academic perspectives. Readers can explore insights from developmental psychology, psycholinguistics, and sign-language linguistics, alongside research from linguistic anthropology, conversational analysis, and primatology. By connecting these diverse studies, the text addresses fundamental questions regarding how pointing functions in communication. It provides a unified resource for students and researchers who need to understand the connection between gesture, language, and human behavior. Whether you are studying cognitive processes or social communication, this volume provides the cross-disciplinary context necessary for deep academic study.