Hand and Mind: What Gestures Reveal about Thought

Hand and Mind: What Gestures Reveal about Thought

by David McNeill
Hand and Mind: What Gestures Reveal about Thought

Hand and Mind: What Gestures Reveal about Thought

by David McNeill

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Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780226561349
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 01/15/1996
Edition description: 1
Pages: 423
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction

Pt. 1: Setting the Stage
1: Images, Inside and Out
2: Conventions, Gestures, and Signs

Pt. 2: Varieties of Gesture
3: Guide to Gesture Classification, Transcription, and Distribution
4: Gestures of the Concrete
5: Experiment on Gestures of the Concrete
6: Gestures of the Abstract

Pt. 3: Theory
7: Gestures and Discourse
8: Self-Organization of Gesture and Speech
9: How Gestures Affect Thought
10: Experiments on Self-Organization

Pt. 4: Topics
11: Children
12: The Brain

Appendix: Procedures for Eliciting, Recording, Coding, and Experimenting with Gestures
References
Index
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