The Impulse to Gesture: Where Language, Minds, and Bodies Intersect

摘要: Gestures are central to the way people use language when they interact. This book places our impulse gesture at very heart of linguistic structure: grammar. Based on phenomenon negation - a universal with clear grammatical and gestural manifestations Simon Harrison argues that concepts fundamentally multi modal shows how lead recurrent bindings between grammar speak. Studying speakers express modally in range social professional contexts, explores gesture, what achieve linguistically discursively their gestures, why we find similar uses different languages (including spoken signed language). Establishing inseparability this is an important reference for any researcher interested relation language, cognition.