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Gesture and Thought
David McNeill
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Description for Gesture and Thought
Paperback. The shape and timing of gestures depends not only on what speakers see but on what they take to be distinctive; this, in turn, depends on the context. Those who remembered the same context saw the same distinctions and used similar gestures. This book presents a study of how we communicate and how language is connected to thought. Num Pages: 330 pages, 92 figures, 13 tables. BIC Classification: CFD; JMR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 154 x 231 x 17. Weight in Grams: 458.
David McNeill, a pioneer in the ongoing study of the relationship between gesture and language, here argues that gestures are active participants in both speaking and thinking. He posits that gestures are key ingredients in an "imagery-language dialectic" that fuels speech and thought. The smallest unit of this dialectic is the growth point, a snapshot of an utterance at its beginning psychological stage. In "Gesture and Thought", the central growth point comes from a Tweety Bird cartoon. Over the course of twenty-five years, the McNeill Lab showed this cartoon to numerous subjects who spoke a variety of languages, and a ... Read more
David McNeill, a pioneer in the ongoing study of the relationship between gesture and language, here argues that gestures are active participants in both speaking and thinking. He posits that gestures are key ingredients in an "imagery-language dialectic" that fuels speech and thought. The smallest unit of this dialectic is the growth point, a snapshot of an utterance at its beginning psychological stage. In "Gesture and Thought", the central growth point comes from a Tweety Bird cartoon. Over the course of twenty-five years, the McNeill Lab showed this cartoon to numerous subjects who spoke a variety of languages, and a ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
Weight
458g
Number of Pages
330
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226514635
SKU
V9780226514635
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About David McNeill
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.
Reviews for Gesture and Thought
"David McNeill's book is a momentous contribution to our understanding of kinetic and visual expression.... McNeill's detailed descriptions of how gestures represent ideas contribute greatly to our understanding of images as carriers of abstractions." - Rudolf Arnheim, Leonardo"