| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 318 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Why gestures? -- How gestures carry meaning -- Two dimensions -- Imagery-language dialectic -- Discourse -- Children and whorf -- Neurogesture -- The thought-language-hand link and language origins. |
| Summary |
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 dialectical component. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Gesture.
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Gesture. |
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Psycholinguistics.
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Psycholinguistics. |
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Thought and thinking.
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Thought and thinking. |
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Speech.
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Speech. |
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Sign language.
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Sign language. |
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Language and languages.
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Language and languages. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: McNeill, David. Gesture and thought. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2005 (DLC) 2005000612 |
| ISBN |
9780226514642 (electronic book) |
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0226514641 (electronic book) |
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9780226514628 |
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0226514625 |
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