Gesture as Language
David Trotter, 30 January 1992
A Cultural History of Gestures: From Antiquity to the Present
edited by Jan Bremmer and Herman Roodenburg.
Polity, 220 pp., £35, December 1991,0 7456 0786 1 Show More
edited by Jan Bremmer and Herman Roodenburg.
Polity, 220 pp., £35, December 1991,
The New Oxford Book of 17th-Century Verse
by Alastair Fowler.
Oxford, 830 pp., £25, November 1991,0 19 214164 3 Show More
by Alastair Fowler.
Oxford, 830 pp., £25, November 1991,
“... of this particular gesture, as a basis for inferring what he means by it. Bremmer and Roodenburg’s contributors assume that communication is complete once signal has been decoded into message. In fact, it has barely begun. We have yet to combine the output of decoding with non-linguistic knowledge in such a way as to infer an ... ”
