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Head, Bessie. A gesture of belonging: Letters from Bessie Head, 1965-1979. Heinemann, 1991.

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Head, Bessie. A gesture of belonging: Letters from Bessie Head, 1965-1979. SA Writers, 1991.

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Robolin, Stéphane. Cultivating Correspondences; or, Other Gestures of Belonging. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252039478.003.0004.

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Transnationalism is not the exclusive province of globe-trotting authors, but also includes the practices of those who could not access the means of transatlantic mobility. This chapter begins by considering Bessie Head's exilic life and her quest for belonging that motivated the grounded transnationalism she expressed. It then investigates one of its most exemplary practices: her letter writing, with particular attention to the set of letters between Head and her four African American correspondents: Nikki Giovanni, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and Michelle Cliff. Some of their epistolary exc

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Shaffer, Barbara, and Terry Janzen. Modality and Mood in American Sign Language. Edited by Jan Nuyts and Johan Van Der Auwera. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199591435.013.17.

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This chapter surveys the expression of modality and mood in American Sign Language (ASL), with a focus on modality and, specifically, modal verbs. Beyond sentence types, mood has not been explored extensively for ASL to date, although recent work on irrealis moods has been fruitful. For a signed language such as ASL, articulation with the hands is accompanied by distinctive facial gestures and body/head postures, which become increasingly important as epistemic readings of modals are obtained. Here we give a detailed discussion of modals in ASL that range from agent-oriented to epistemic, look

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Love Gestures: Let's Heal the Wounds. Lulu Press, Inc., 2022.

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Fuchs, Thomas. The Phenomenology of Affectivity. Edited by K. W. M. Fulford, Martin Davies, Richard G. T. Gipps, et al. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199579563.013.0038.

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In contrast to current opinion which locates mental states including moods and emotions within our head, phenomenology regards affects as encompassing phenomena that connect body, self, and world. Based on the phenomenological approach, the chapter gives a detailed account of: (a) the feeling of being alive or vitality, (b) existential feelings, (c) affective atmospheres, (d) moods, and (e) emotions, emphasizing the embodied as well as intersubjective dimensions of affectivity. Thus, emotions are regarded as resulting from the circular interaction between affective affordances in the environme

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Bosse, Joanna. Interlude. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252039010.003.0002.

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In this interlude, the author describes the events of a typical Friday night social dance at the Regent Ballroom and Banquet Center by sharing her own experience. She narrates how dancers greet each other warmly and tell stories of their week as they change into their dance shoes. The dancers then head to the dance hall. The early minutes of the dance exude a quiet romance not only reserved for newlyweds. The Friday night ballroom dance is date night for many couples in attendance. The author mentions Sylvia, a real estate agent with two adult children, and her husband Jimmy. The two met at th

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Koozin, Timothy. Embodied Expression in Popular Music. Oxford University PressNew York, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197692981.001.0001.

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Abstract This study of embodiment and meaning in popular music explores a wide-ranging repertoire, offering a performance-based analytical methodology that progresses from basic idiomatic gestures, to gestural combinations and interactions with large-scale design, to broader interpretive strategies that engage with theories of embodiment, the musical topic, and narrative. The book examines artistic practices in popular song that draw from a vast range of stylistic sources, including rock, blues, folk, soul, funk, fusion, and hip hop, as well as European classical and African American gospel mu

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Cohn, Neil, and Joost Schilperoord. A Multimodal Language Faculty. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350404861.

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Language has traditionally been held as an “amodal” system that flows into different forms like speech, writing, or signing; however, communication is multimodal by nature. We pair speech with gestures, use emoji with text, and combine writing with drawings and images in places from doodles to comics to advertising. Yet, the linguistic and cognitive theories maintaining the traditional amodal notion of language cannot account for the richness of this multimodal communication. What is needed is a new, multimodal paradigm of language. This book presents a model of a multimodal language faculty w

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Duckett, Victoria. Nullius in Verba. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252039669.003.0002.

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This chapter challenges the notion that Sarah Bernhardt mouthed her lines on film due to her inability to act in a fittingly naturalistic way for film, and that her famous “golden voice” is brutally denied in a media that gives us the spectacle of an actress mouthing lines that we cannot hear. The chapter explains why an actress who was famous for her voice and gesture acts on silent film in terms of art nouveau acting, changes in visual literature, and the ongoing use of musical accompaniment—all of which allow us to reinterpret Bernhardt's relationship to the silent screen. It argues that Be

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Classen, Constance. A Touchable God. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252034930.003.0002.

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This chapter argues that the cosmology of the Middle Ages was tactile. Heaven may have seemed to be all light and music and fragrance, but the primordial qualities of the universe were held to be the contrasting forces of hot, cold, moist, and dry. All of these qualities could only be experienced through touch, making touch the only sense open to the fundamental nature of reality. As such, this chapter explores first explores the Biblical narratives of touch, particularly through the person of Jesus Christ. It then turns to another aspect of touch in religion—embodied practice through ritual g

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Gover, K. E. Conclusion. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198768692.003.0007.

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The challenges to artistic authority by contemporary art practice have certainly enlarged our sense of what kinds of things count as artworks, and by extension they have altered our sense of who artists are and what they do. However, while the landscape of art has changed, these ideal or rhetorical challenges to the modernist ideology of artistic authority have not in fact penetrated our most deeply held cultural beliefs and practices surrounding the artist’s special relationship to his or her work. The concept of the artist serves as a regulative ideal, and the gestures by the avant-garde to

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Institute Of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (Fg 2000): 4th IEEE International Conference Held on March 26-30, 2000, Grenoble, France. Institute of Electrical & Electronics Enginee, 2000.

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Gotman, Kélina. ‘The Gift of Seeing Resemblances’. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190840419.003.0011.

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In this penultimate chapter, the ‘choreomania’ diagnosis all but dissolves. Visiting British and other colonial government anthropologists, moving around the colonial world from Jamaica and Papua New Guinea to New Zealand, read islanders performing ecstatic preparations for the ‘Great Awakening’ or the return of ancestors in rafts as participating in yet another iteration of a primitive type of dancing disease. Yet, as this chapter also shows, the ‘cargo cults’, just like the Hauhau movement, conjugated a complex play of counter-mimicry which reappropriated colonial props, language, and gestur

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Gotman, Kélina. Monstrous Grace. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190840419.003.0012.

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The first decades of the twentieth century saw a flurry of dance ‘crazes’, from the tango and the Charleston to the jitterbug, increasingly mapped onto the language of blackness. Jazz, cakewalk, and animal dances infused the social and popular culture of American and European cabarets; yet in the literature on dance and public health, twisting, contortions, hopping, and contagious enthusiasm represented the spectre of sexually taboo and ungainly blackness, against which ‘modern’ (white) dancing set itself. The choreographic discourse on modernity after Sigmund Freud conjugated primitive, infan

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Sperino, Sandra F., and Suja A. Thomas. How Discrimination Disappears. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190278380.003.0003.

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This chapter explores how courts limit harassment, discrimination, and retaliation claims. Searches of federal cases reveal case after case where federal courts rule that conduct is not sufficiently serious to be considered discrimination. Cases are dismissed where women alleged that their bosses or coworkers repeatedly touched their breasts or buttocks, supervisors regularly asked employees on dates or for sexual favors, or employees were continually victims of unwanted sexualized comments and gestures. Some federal courts rule that such conduct is not serious enough to qualify as sexual hara

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Kimmelman, Vadim, and Roland Pfau. Information Structure in Sign Languages. Edited by Caroline Féry and Shinichiro Ishihara. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199642670.013.001.

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This chapter demonstrates that the Information Structure notions Topic and Focus are relevant for sign languages, just as they are for spoken languages. Data from various sign languages reveal that, across sign languages, Information Structure is encoded by syntactic and prosodic strategies, often in combination. As for topics, we address the familiar semantic (e.g. aboutness vs. scene-setting topic) and syntactic (e.g. moved vs. base-generated topic) classifications in turn and we also discuss the possibility of topic stacking. As for focus, we show how information, contrastive, and emphatic

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Gotman, Kélina. Translatio. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190840419.003.0004.

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Renegade physician Paracelsus compared St. John’s Day dances to earthquakes, epileptic tremors, and tics. This ecosophical and vitalist concept, according to which all sorts of bodies echo one another’s shaking motions, countered long-held academic prejudice against witchcraft; neither choreomaniacs nor witches were subject to supernatural forces. Rather, the ‘vital spirits’ caused limbs, like branches, to shake. What’s more, dancing was now thought to cure dancing, and municipal authorities keen to keep a Strasbourg dancing mania in check employed guards to help wear dancers out—while exorcis

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Ferrarese, Estelle. The Fragility of Concern for Others. Translated by Steven Corcoran. Edinburgh University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474467391.001.0001.

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The book’s underlying project is to renew and sharpen Critical Theory through feminism. It aims to develop our thinking about the social conditions of caring for others, while arguing for an understanding of morality that is materialist and political – always-already political. Offering the first systematic study of the idea of “coldness” in Adorno’s philosophy, Ferrarese’s book is the first to stage a dialogue between Adornian Critical Theory and the ethics of care. It thereby endeavours to think through the mechanisms of the social fragility of caring for others, the moral gesture it enjoins

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Brower, Virgil W. Jacques Derrida. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474423632.003.0025.

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There’s kinship, no doubt. Traces of Derrida ever haunt Agamben, brilliantly, even in the dark. He is expressly ingratiated by ‘Derrida’s critique of the metaphysical tradition‘ (LD 39, original italics). Amid the myriad of his coeval influences, it is certainly worth considering that Derrida is Agamben’s ‘primary contemporary interlocutor’. His ‘critical engagement with deconstruction can indeed be identified as the context out of which emerge almost all of his key concepts’.2 Attell offers compelling discussions of this polemical relationship with regard to voicing language, sovereignty and

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Bernstein, Zachary. Thinking In and About Music. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190949235.001.0001.

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Milton Babbitt (1916–2011) was, at once, one of the century’s foremost composers and a founder of American music theory. These two aspects of his creative life—“thinking in” and “thinking about” music, as he would put it—nourished each other. Theory and analysis inspired fresh compositional ideas, and compositional concerns focused theoretical and analytical inquiry. Accordingly, this book undertakes an excavation of the sources of his theorizing as a guide to analysis of his music. Babbitt’s idiosyncratic synthesis of ideas from Heinrich Schenker, analytic philosophy, and cognitive science—at

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Bencke, Ida, and Jørgen Bruhn, eds. Multispecies Storytelling in Intermedial Practices. punctum books, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.53288/0338.1.00.

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Multispecies Storytelling in Intermedial Practices is a speculative endeavor asking how we may represent, relay, and read worlds differently by seeing other species as protagonists in their own rights. What other stories are to be invented and told from within those many-tongued chatters of multispecies collectives? Could such stories teach us how to become human otherwise? Often, the human is defined as the sole creature who holds language, and consequently is capable of articulating, representing, and reflecting upon the world. And yet, the world is made and remade by ongoing and many-tongue

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Bickford, Tyler. Schooling New Media. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190654146.001.0001.

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Schooling New Media is an ethnography of children’s music and media consumption practices at a small elementary and middle school in Vermont. It examines how transformations in music technologies influence the way children, their peers, and adults relate to one another in school. Focusing especially on digital music devices—MP3 players—it reveals the key role of intimate, face-to-face relationships in structuring children’s uses of music technologies. It explores how headphones mediate face-to-face peer relationships, as children share earbuds and listen to music with friends while participati

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