Many nonverbal behaviors--smiling, blushing, shrugging--reveal our
emotions. One nonverbal behavior, gesturing, exposes our thoughts.
This book explores how we move our hands when we talk, and what it
means when we do so.
Susan Goldin-Meadow begins with an intriguing discovery: when
explaining their answer to a task, children sometimes communicate
different ideas with their hand gestures than with their spoken
words. Moreover, children whose gestures do not match their speech
are particularly likely to benefit from instruction in that task.
Not only do gestures provide insight into the unspoken thoughts of
children (one of Goldin-Meadow's central claims), but gestures
reveal a child's readiness to learn, and even suggest which
teaching strategies might be most beneficial.
In addition, Goldin-Meadow characterizes gesture when it
fulfills the entire function of language (as in the case of Sign
Languages of the Deaf), when it is reshaped to suit different
cultures (American and Chinese), and even when it occurs in
children who are blind from birth.
Focusing on what we can discover about speakers--adults and
children alike--by watching their hands, this book discloses the
active role that gesture plays in conversation and, more
fundamentally, in thinking. In general, we are unaware of gesture,
which occurs as an undercurrent alongside an acknowledged verbal
exchange. In this book, Susan Goldin-Meadow makes clear why we must
not ignore the background conversation.
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