Hand and Mind: What Gestures Reveal about Thought

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University of Chicago Press, 1992 - 416 pagina's
Using data from more than ten years of research, David McNeill shows that gestures do not simply form a part of what is said and meant but have an impact on thought itself. Hand and Mind persuasively argues that because gestures directly transfer mental images to visible forms, conveying ideas that language cannot always express, we must examine language and gesture together to unveil the operations of the mind.
 

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Setting the Stage
6
Guide to Gesture Classification Transcription
75
Gestures of the Concrete
105
Experiment on Gestures of the Concrete
134
Gestures of the Abstract
145
Theory
157
Experiments on SelfOrganization
273
Children
295
The Brain
329
Procedures for Eliciting Recording
365
References
393
Index
409
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Over de auteur (1992)

David McNeill is professor emeritus of linguistics and psychology at the University of Chicago and director of the Center for Gesture and Speech. He is the author of four previous books, including Hand and Mind, also published by the University of Chicago Press, and the editor of Language and Gesture.

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