McNeill, David,

Hand and mind : what gestures reveal about thought / David McNeill. - xi, 416 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-407) and index.

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Setting the Stage -- Images, Inside and Out -- Conventions, Gestures, and Signs -- Varieties of Gesture -- Guide to Gesture Classification, Transcription, and Distribution -- Gestures of the Concrete -- Experiment on Gestures of the Concrete -- Gestures of the Abstract -- Theory -- Gestures and Discourse -- Self-Organization of Gesture and Speech -- How Gestures Affect Thought -- Experiments on Self-Organization -- Topics -- Children -- The Brain -- Appendix: Procedures for Eliciting, Recording, Coding, and Experimenting with Gestures -- References -- Index. Pt. 1. 1. 2. Pt. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Pt. 3. 7. 8. 9. 10. Pt. 4. 11. 12.

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Gesture
Thought and thinking.
Psycholinguistics.

P117 / .M36 1992

401.9