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Author McNeill, David, 1933-

Title Hand and mind : what gestures reveal about thought / David McNeill
Edition First paperback edition
Published Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1992

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Description xi, 416 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents Pt. 1. Setting the Stage -- 1. Images, Inside and Out -- 2. Conventions, Gestures, and Signs -- Pt. 2. Varieties of Gesture -- 3. Guide to Gesture Classification, Transcription, and Distribution -- 4. Gestures of the Concrete -- 5. Experiment on Gestures of the Concrete -- 6. Gestures of the Abstract -- Pt. 3. Theory -- 7. Gestures and Discourse -- 8. Self-Organization of Gesture and Speech -- 9. How Gestures Affect Thought -- 10. Experiments on Self-Organization -- Pt. 4. Topics -- 11. Children -- 12. The Brain -- Appendix: Procedures for Eliciting, Recording, Coding, and Experimenting with Gestures
Analysis Psycholinguistics
Notes Bibliography: p393-407. - Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-407) and index
Subject Gesture.
Psycholinguistics.
Thought and thinking.
LC no. 91032575
ISBN 0226561321 (cloth)