Rim6 and Schiaratura (1991) challenged the view, widely assumed, but not often critically
investigated, that the gesturing that commonly occurs with speech plays a role in …

When people talk they gesture, and those gestures often reflect thoughts not expressed in
their words. In this sense, gesture and the speech it accompanies can mismatch. Gesture …

Gestures are seemingly trivial, but actually they are interesting and crucial components of
language. By studying them, in conjunction with language (not in isolation), we gain new …

Many nonverbal behaviors—smiling, blushing, shrugging—reveal our emotions. One
nonverbal behavior, gesturing, exposes our thoughts. This book explores how we move our …

Observers of human behavior have long been fascinated by the gestures that accompany
speech, and by the contributions to communication they purportedly make.'Yet, despite this …

In a within-subjects design that varied whether speakers were allowed to gesture and the
difficulty of lexical access, speakers were videotaped as they described animated action …

This volume is the first to offer an overview on metaphor and gesture—a new multi-
disciplinary area of research. Scholars of metaphor have been paying increasing attention to …

Publisher Summary This chapter explores how gestures contribute to comprehension, how
gesturing affect speech and what can be learned from studying conversational gestures. The …

During language comprehension, listeners use the global semantic representation from
previous sentence or discourse context to immediately integrate the meaning of each …

In 5 experiments, male and female undergraduates viewed gestures' and tried to select the
words that originally accompanied them; read interpretations of gestures' meanings and …