The Impulse to Gesture: Where Language, Minds, and Bodies Intersect

by Simon Harrison

Gestures are central to the way people use language when they interact. This book places our impulse to gesture at the very heart of linguistic structure: grammar. Based on the phenomenon of negation - a linguistic universal with clear grammatical and gestural manifestations - Simon Harrison argues that linguistic concepts are fundamentally multi modal and shows how they lead to recurrent bindings between grammar and gesture when people speak. Studying...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108417205
• ISBN13: 9781108417204
• Release Date: October 2018
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.2"