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The language of Asian gestures

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"The Language of Asian Gestures explores Asian gestures as a non-verbal language within the context of films and dramas. This book provides a cross-cultural Asian perspective on a range of important common gestures and their meanings, covering a range of Asian regions including Korea, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan, Vietnam, Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, India, and Pakistan. While most studies focus on text-based communication, gestures find themselves overshadowed by text and speech. Asian gestures, too, often reside in the shadow of Eurocentric viewpoints. This book will shift this dynamic and amplify the voices that have typically been marginalised within 20th-century Eurocentric discussions. The book will inform students and researchers with an interest in Asian languages, cultures, and film studies, as well as pragmatics. It bridges the gap between words and gestures, unveiling a world of concealed meanings and enriching our understanding of diverse forms of expression"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Gestures - A Bird's Eye View -- Prosody as Gesture -- Understanding Facial Expressions -- Cultural Gestures -- Diversity in Asian Language and Culture -- Asian Gestures -- Multimodal Modulation Hypothesis (MMH) -- Hierarchy Through Gesture -- Diversity in Asian Gestures -- Gesturing Properly -- Verbal - Gestural Languages: Division of Labour -- Border-crossing Gestures -- Head -- Upper body -- Lower body -- The Evolution of Gestures -- Smartphone Gestures -- Gestures in a Digital Age -- Emoji and Acronym Ambiguity: Interpreting Generational Disparities in Digital Communication -- Decoding Gestures: The Complexities in an Increasingly Mobile World -- 'Translingual, Transcultural, and Transmedial': Individual Differences -- Transnational Gestures -- Fandom Gestures: Transcending Borders and Cultures -- Sharing Memes and Emojis: An Act of Solidarity -- Gesture Diversity -- Future Gestures: Less Hierarchical? -- Online Gestures Matter -- AI Gestures in Films -- Future of Human Language.

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Kiaer, Jieun. The language of Asian gestures

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  • Date: 2026-09-11T20:18:47.537476+00:00
  • Agent: cbc
  • Status: c
  • Derived from: 23416208

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  • Date: 2026-09-11
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  • Description level: http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe-2-6-0/
  • Description language: eng
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