Gesture and Thought
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"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 1930s, 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," an "idea unit" of an utterance at its beginning psychological stage. Utilizing several innovative experiments he created and administered with subjects spanning several different age, gender, language, and neurological groups. McNeill's shows how growth points organize themselves into utterances and extend to discourse at the moment of speaking."--BOOK JACKET.
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Both co-speech gestures and gestures independent of speech carry meaning that adults and children can access, regardless of the particular spoken or sign language they use.
“Since both co-speech gestures and gestures independent of speech carry meaning that adults and children can access, regardless of the particular spoken or sign language they use [153,154]”
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- Authors
- McNeill, D.
- Affiliations
- University of Chicago (US)
- Corresponding author
- McNeill, David
- ORCID
- McNeill, David
- Venue
- University of Chicago Press eBooks
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 2005
- OpenAlex
- W1708911126
- Cited by
- 2,157
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
- 2026: 58 · 2025: 95 · 2024: 101 · 2023: 89 · 2022: 115 · 2021: 100 · 2020: 111 · 2019: 123 · 2018: 138 · 2017: 120 · 2016: 101 · 2015: 157 · 2014: 148 · 2013: 151 · 2012: 101
- FWCI
- 116.56
- Type
- book
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- University of Chicago Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Language and Linguistics › Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Hearing Impairment and Communication
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism
- Keywords
- gesture, thinking, growth points, discourse, speech production, Vygotsky, embodied cognition
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