Language of Asian Gestures

Embodied Words Through the Lens of Film

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

Av Jieun Kiaer, Loli Kim

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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 be informative for students and researchers interested in Asian languages, cultures, film studies, and pragmatics. It bridges the gap between words and gestures, unveiling a world of concealed meanings and enriching our understanding of diverse forms of expression.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-07-30
Mått156 x 234 x 11 mm
Vikt360 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieRoutledge Studies in East Asian Translation
Antal sidor174
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781032331645

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Jieun Kiaer holds the YBMK KF Professorship in Korean Linguistics at the University of Oxford. As a linguist, pragmatist, and specialist in Asian studies, she has published extensively in the fields of theoretical and applied linguistics as well as translation studies. Her research goes beyond the traditionally Western and text-focused approaches to language, embracing non-European and multi-modal perspectives to offer a more nuanced understanding of human communication.Loli Kim is a postdoctoral researcher on the Leverhulme project "Sea, Song and Survival: The Language and Folklore of the Haenyeo Women" at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Oxford. As a multimodalist, semiotician, and specialist in Asian studies, semantics, and film, she publishes across fields of multimodality, semiotics, translation, semantics, pragmatics, and film and media studies—all drawn together by cross-cultural perspectives that seek to contextualise Asian discourses in their own cultures and to develop the methodological tools needed for doing so.

List of FiguresAcknowledgements Preface Part I. Gestures – Moving Words or Words in Action? Gestures – A Bird's Eye ViewProsody as GestureUnderstanding Facial ExpressionsCultural GesturesDiversity in Asian Language and CultureAsian GesturesMultimodal Modulation Hypothesis (MMH)Hierarchy Through GestureDiversity in Asian GesturesBowing Gesturing ProperlyVerbal – Gestural Languages: Division of LabourBorder-Crossing GesturesPart II. Gesture in Asia – Mapped Though FilmHeadSmileKissOpen Mouth, Sticking Out Tongue, and Lip PointingNoddingHead to HandScratching the HeadEar Pulling and Ear HoldingRolling Both Hands Behind EarsEye GazeLowering the HeadClosing Eyes and BlinkingWinkingRaised EyebrowsVoiceWhistlingSlurpingLaughterHissingSilenceSoft SpeakingUpper bodyShouldersArmsCrossed ArmsBowingHandshakeHand Over MouthBeckoningFistWavingPointingTouching the HeartHands Held Together in LapWrist TwistingCutting ThroughPouring for SomeoneOne or Two HandsDrinking GesturesFood GesturesGiving and Receiving Items and GiftsLeft or Right HandTouchNo Touching of the HeadPatting and HittingChin Grabbing/ShakingBrushing and WashingLower bodyCrossing Legs and KneelingCovering Bare Legs When SittingFeetExposing the FeetTouching Someone Else's FeetTouching Things or Gesturing Using FeetPart III. Future Gestures in an Asian ContextThe Evolution of GesturesSmartphone GesturesGestures in a Digital AgeEmoji and Acronym Ambiguity: Interpreting Generational Disparities in Digital CommunicationDecoding Gestures: The Complexities in an Increasingly Mobile World‘Translingual, Transcultural, and Transmedial’: Individual DifferencesTransnational GesturesFandom Gestures: Transcending Borders and CulturesSharing Memes and Emojis: An Act of SolidarityGesture DiversityGesture ConflictsFuture Gestures: Less Hierarchical?Online Gestures MatterAI Gestures in FilmsFuture of Human LanguageFilmographyIntervieweesBibliographyIndex