Recurrent gestures

How the mental reflects the social

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ID12824459
AuthorsDavid Mcneill (0000-0002-6892-5902, University of Chicago, corresponding author)
Year2018
Volume17
Issue2
Pages229-244
Publication date2018-12-31
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueGesture (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1568-1475 • E-ISSN: 1569-9773
PublisherJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/gest.18012.mcn
OpenAlexW2953937677
LanguageEN
Citations received8
References cited16

Using recurrent gestures as the model, this essay considers how an inside-looking-out view of speech-gesture production reflects the interactive-social exterior. The inside view may appear to ignore the social context of speaking and gesture, but this is far from the truth. What an exterior view sees as important appears in the interior but in a different way. The difference leads to misunderstandings of the interior view and what it does. It is not a substitute for the exterior. It is the interior reflecting the social exterior and shaping it to fit its own demands. Topics are: recurrent gestures; gesture-speech co-expressivity; expunged real-world goals; “in-betweenness”; phenomenological “inhabitance” and material carriers; metaphoricity and imagery; social deixis and social relations; realizations of the self; world-views; and lastly the want of mutual outside and inside intellectual perceptions and what can be done about it

Aesthetics · Art · Context (archaeology · Deixis · Epistemology · Expressivity · Gesture · Linguistics · Perception · Sociology · Communication · Hearing Impairment and Communication · History · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Philosophy · Psychology

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