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Published 2007.
Each of the 21 chapters in this volume reflects a view of language as a dynamic phenomenon with emergent structure, and in each, gesture is approached ...
Published 2007.
Each of the 21 chapters in this volume reflects a view of language as a dynamic phenomenon with emergent structure, and in each, gesture is approached as
part of language, not an adjunct to it. Together, these papers support and contribute to David McNeill's theory and methodology.
The introductory chapter by Adam Kenton contextualizes McNeill's perspective within a history of earlier gesture studies. Kendon's own research, from the
early 1970s on, has itself been foundational to the development of McNeill's paradigm and his paper makes clear the historical foundations of all the work
represented in the volume. The rest of the book is divided into two main sections, ?Language and Cognition? and ?Environmental Context and Sociality.? We
might say that the work detailed in the chapters of the first section emphasizes the 'intrapersonal plane', while that in the second section emphasizes the
'interpersonal plane'. The final section, ?Atypical Minds and Bodies,? concerns lessons to be learned from studies of aphasic patients, autistic children,
and artificial humans.
