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Gesture and Thought (Paperback)
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Gesture and Thought (Paperback)
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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 and integral component of language.
"Gesture and Thought" expands on McNeill's acclaimed classic "Hand
and Mind." While that earlier work demonstrated what gestures
reveal about thought, here gestures are shown to be active
participants in both speaking and thinking. Expanding on an
approach introduced by Lev Vygotsky in the 1930s, McNeill posits
that gestures are key ingredients in an "imagery-language
dialectic" that fuels both speech "and" thought. Gestures are both
the "imagery" and components of "language." The smallest element of
this dialectic is the "growth point," an "idea unit" of an
utterance at its beginning psychological stage. Utilizing several
innovative experiments he created and administered with subjects
spanning several different age, gender, language, and neurological
groups, McNeill shows how growth points organize themselves into
utterances and extend to discourse at the moment of speaking.
An ambitious project in the ongoing study of the relationship of
human communication and thought, "Gesture and Thought "is a work of
such consequence that it will influence all subsequenttheory on the
subject.
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