LEADER 04256nam 2200757 a 450 001 9910809434603321 005 20240418125522.0 010 $a1-281-96594-4 010 $a9786611965945 010 $a0-226-51464-1 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226514642 035 $a(CKB)1000000000578555 035 $a(EBL)408298 035 $a(OCoLC)309886031 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000162472 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11164083 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000162472 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10208037 035 $a(PQKB)11239473 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC408298 035 $a(DE-B1597)523713 035 $a(OCoLC)781253715 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226514642 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL408298 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10266067 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL196594 035 $a(OCoLC)646784361 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000578555 100 $a20050110d2005 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aGesture and thought /$fDavid McNeill 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aChicago $cUniversity of Chicago Press$dc2005 215 $a1 online resource (332 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-226-51462-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aWhy gestures? -- How gestures carry meaning -- Two dimensions -- Imagery-language dialectic -- Discourse -- Children and whorf -- Neurogesture -- The thought-language-hand link and language origins. 330 $aGesturing 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 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 1930's, 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," a snapshot of an utterance at its beginning psychological stage. Utilizing several innovative experiments he created and administered with subjects spanning several different age, gender, and language 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 subsequent theory on the subject. 606 $aGesture 606 $aPsycholinguistics 606 $aThought and thinking 606 $aSpeech 606 $aSign language 606 $aLanguage and languages 610 $agesturing, communication, conversation, linguistics, speech, language, lev vygotsky, thought, cognition, imagery, psycholinguistics, thinking, sign, age, gender, utterances, discourse, cognitive psychology, anthropology, kinetic, expression, embodiment, consciousness, dialectic, neurology, social context, function, mind and body, nonfiction. 615 0$aGesture. 615 0$aPsycholinguistics. 615 0$aThought and thinking. 615 0$aSpeech. 615 0$aSign language. 615 0$aLanguage and languages. 676 $a153.69 676 $a808.5 700 $aMcNeill$b David$0161270 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910809434603321 996 $aGesture and thought$92649820 997 $aUNINA