Hand and Mind
What Gestures Reveal about Thought
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Hand and Mind
What Gestures Reveal about Thought
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.
423 pages | 88 line drawings, 28 tables | 6 x 9 | © 1995
Cognitive Science: Human and Animal Cognition
Language and Linguistics: General Language and Linguistics
Psychology: General Psychology
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
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
Awards
The University of Chicago Press: Gordon J. Laing Award
Won
Association of American Publishers: PROSE Book Award
Honorable Mention