| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 318 pages) : illustrations |
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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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Gesture.
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Psycholinguistics.
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Thought and thinking.
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Speech.
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Sign language.
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Language and languages.
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Gestures
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Psycholinguistics
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Thinking
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Speech
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Sign Language
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Language
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gesture.
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psycholinguistics.
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thinking.
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speech (communication function)
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Communication Studies.
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Gesture
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Language and languages
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Psycholinguistics
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Sign language
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Speech
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Thought and thinking
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Gestik
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Sprache
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Zeichensprache
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Psycholinguistik
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Denken
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Teckenspråk.
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Perception.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2005000612 |
| ISBN |
9780226514642 |
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0226514641 |
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