Pointing: A foundational building block in human communication

By Sotaro Kita. 2003

101 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Mechanical Engineering

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/32d2519da075c66e58d09a38a95dd9d5827474f5

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In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. Holger Diessel
2. Bencie Woll
3. Kearsy Cormier
4. A. Schembri

In Mechanical Engineering

1. Holger Diessel

Citations in the corpus

• Demonstratives, joint attention, and the emergence of grammar (2006, background): “Deictic pointing is a communicative device that people of all cultures use to establish joint attention (cf. Kita 2003b).”
• Pronouns and pointing in sign languages (2013, background): “There is some evidence of specific patterns of pointing gestures within particular cultures (Kita, 2003c; Wilkins, 2003), but there has been little crosscultural comparison of pointing gestures.”