Hand and Mind: What Gestures Reveal about Thought

TL;DR: Examination of children making the transition from single words to two-word combinations found that gesture had a tight relation to the children's lexical and syntactic development.

TL;DR: Introduction 1. Historical-Philological Semantics 2. Structuralist Semantics 3. Generativist Semantics 4. NeostructuralistSemantics 5. Cognitive Semantics Conclusion References

TL;DR: The integrated-systems hypothesis is proposed, which explains two ways in which gesture and speech are integrated—through mutual and obligatory interactions—in language comprehension, and it is demonstrated that gesture andspeech form an integrated system in language comprehension.

TL;DR: The authors discusses the consequences and challenges of putting the body at the center of attention in social interaction, and proposes to consider the involvement of entire bodies in social interactions, overcoming a logo-centric vision of communication, as well as a visuo-centric view of embodiment.

TL;DR: Kita et al. as mentioned in this paper examined how representational gestures made by scientists during collaborative discussions in a biochemistry lab, are used as cognitive artifacts for formulating scientific theory, and they found that symbolic gestures serve to reference and animate portions of existing material structure such as models, diagrams, and graphs.

TL;DR: In this article, three sources of communicative success are suggested: the ability of both parties to draw contextually triggered inferences which provide a basis for making perceptual contributions and using communication strategies, the professional knowledge and skill of the interactants which not only enable interaction to proceed but do so toward professional goals.

TL;DR: A recently developed Database of Speech and GEsture based on independent annotation of gesture forms and functions among 119 neurologically unimpaired right-handed native speakers of Cantonese was described and findings of an investigation examining how gesture use was related to age and linguistic performance were presented.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe a practice of speakers of the Brazilian indigenous language Nheengatu of pointing to positions along the east-west axis of the sun's arc for time-of-day reference, and illustrate how it satisfies any of the common criteria for linguistic elements.