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Hand and Mind (Paperback, New edition)
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Hand and Mind (Paperback, New edition)
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What is the relation between gestures and speech? In terms of
symbolic forms, of course, the spontaneous and unwitting gestures
we make while talking differ sharply from spoken language itself.
Whereas spoken language is linear, segmented, standardized, and
arbitrary, gestures are global, synthetic, idiosyncratic, and
imagistic. In Hand and Mind, David McNeill presents a bold theory
of the essential unity of speech and the gestures that accompany
it. This long-awaited, provocative study argues that the unity of
gestures and language far exceeds the surface level of speech noted
by previous researchers and in fact also includes the semantic and
pragmatic levels of language. In effect, the whole concept of
language must be altered to take into account the nonsegmented,
instantaneous, and holistic images conveyed by gestures. McNeill
and his colleagues carefully devised a standard methodology for
examining the speech and gesture behavior of individuals engaged in
narrative discourse. A research subject is shown a cartoon like the
1950 Canary Row--a classic Sylvester and Tweedy Bird caper that
features Sylvester climbing up a downspout, swallowing a bowling
ball and slamming into a brick wall. After watching the cartoon,
the subject is videotaped recounting the story from memory to a
listener who has not seen the cartoon. Painstaking analysis of the
videotapes revealed that although the research subjects--children
as well as adults, some neurologically impaired--represented a wide
variety of linguistic groupings, the gestures of people speaking
English and a half dozen other languages manifest the same
principles. Relying on data from more than ten years of research,
McNeill shows thatgestures do not simply form a part of what is
said and meant but have an impact on thought itself. He
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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