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) |
Inhaltsangabe:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Part I: Preliminaries; 1. Why Gestures?; 2. How Gestures Carry Meaning; Part II: Dialectic; 3. Two Dimensions; 4. Imagery-Language Dialectic; 5. Disclosure; 6. Children and Whorf; Part III: Brain and Origins; 7. Neurogesture; 8. The Thought-Language-Hand Link and Language Origins; Appendix; References; Index
- Why gestures?How gestures carry meaning
- Two dimensions
- Imagery-language dialectic
- Discourse
- Children and whorf
- Neurogesture
- The thought-language-hand link and language origins.