Gesture and Thought
Gesturing is such an integral yet unconscious part of communication that we are mostly oblivious to it. But if you observe anyone in conversation, you are likely to see his or her fingers, hands, and arms in some form of spontaneous motion. Why? David McNeill, a pioneer in the ongoing study of the r...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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Chicago, IL : University of Chicago Press,
2008
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| Schlagworte: | Psycholinguistics Language and languages Sign language Gesture Speech Thought and thinking Electronic books |
| Umfang: | Online-Ressource (332 p) |
| Zusammenfassung: | Gesturing is such an integral yet unconscious part of communication that we are mostly oblivious to it. But if you observe anyone in conversation, you are likely to see his or her fingers, hands, and arms in some form of spontaneous motion. Why? David McNeill, a pioneer in the ongoing study of the relationship between gesture and language, set about answering this question over twenty-five years ago. In Gesture and Thought he brings together years of this research, arguing that gesturing, an act which has been popularly understood as an accessory to speech, is actually a dialectica |
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| Beschreibung: | Description based upon print version of record |
| Beschreibung: | Online-Ressource (332 p) |
| ISBN: | 9780226514635 0226514633 9780226514642 0226514641 9780226514628 0226514625 |