Language Is Gesture
$80.73
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
9 September 2025
Summary
A new way of viewing language, as a dynamic mode of meaning-making of which gesture is a fundamental part.
When David McNeill began his work on gesture more than forty years ago, language and the action of speaking were regarded as separate realms. But language, says McNeill in Language Is Gesture, is dynamic and gesture is fundamental to speaking. Central to his conception of language, and distinct from linguistic analysis, is what McNeill calls the “growth point,” the start…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262552912 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262552914 |
| Author: | David McNeill |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 9 September 2025 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
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About The Author
David McNeill
David McNeill is Professor Emeritus, Departments of Psychology and Linguistics, the University of Chicago. His many books include How Language Began and Hand and Mind.
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