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Hearing Gesture : How Our Hands Help Us Think
Hearing Gesture How Our Hands Help Us Think Author:Susan Goldin-Meadow 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. "Hearing Gesture is an engaging (even suspenseful) read and, with its clear and informal style, should be largely... more » accessible to non-experts … Readers will be impressed by [Goldin-Meadow's] extraordinary combination of thoughtful insight, experimental ingenuity and immense persistence and dedication to the search for knowledge … Hearing Gesture stands beside McNeill's Hand and Mind and Language and Gesture as a milestone in the study of gesture's relationship with language and thought." —Eve Sweetser, Nature "Goldin-Meadow summarizes 20 years of her own and others' research. She comments on topics that range from the gestural communication systems used by workers in sawmills, where noise prevents talk, and Trappist monks, whose vows preclude talk, to Australian aboriginal women silent while in mourning, and the gestural lingua franca of Plains Indians." —Chris McManus, Times Higher Education Supplement« less