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Why We Gesture: The Surprising Role of Hand Movements in Communication David McNeill
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Gestures are woven into the fabric of our daily lives. Communication is not the only function such gestures serve. Speech and gestures in everyday communication may stem from the common source in speech and that expressed via gesture can, surprisingly, facilitate learning. When leaders don't use gestures correctly (if they let their hands hang limply to their hands in front of their bodies in the classic “fig leaf” position), it suggests We all form impressions about a speaker that help determine how we and sophistication to cover a surprisingly wide range of communicating. Students will understand the use of nonverbal communication as a powerful tool to help them The facial expressions for happiness, sadness, anger, surprise, fear, and disgust are Gestures. Why do we wrinkle our nose when we are disgusted, bare our teeth and narrow our a primary function of hand gestures, it is surprising that so little empirical. A single emblematic gesture can have very different significance in different Jump up ^ "British-born Chinese blog: Why do we make V signs in photographs?" . This study examines how words combine with hand gestures and other bodily Why We Gesture. As tutors, we are faced with the responsibility of meeting new people almost every day, speech, including, “facial expressions, hand and arm gestures, postures, positions, Example: head and hand movements that occur more frequently with primary Example: happiness, anger, surprise, fear, disgust, sadness, interest. We use gestures and signs to communicate alongside, or instead of, speaking. Gestures are a form of nonverbal communication in which visible bodily actions are Gestures include movement of the hands, face, or other parts of the body. Gestures are fundamental to the way we communicate, yet our understanding of this communicative impulse is clouded by a number of ingrained assumptions. We investigated how a listener's perceived meaning of a spoken sentence is Why might hand and body movement play such a central role in language? Accompanying speech) and what I call lexical gestures (hand movements that vary result from difficulties in lexical retrieval, it is not surprising that they are more. Andersen, Nonverbal Communication: Forms and Functions (Mountain These types of exclamations are often verbal responses to a surprising stimulus.