Review of research on gesture

[Everett, Daniel]

Excellent points, Ceci.

Dan

On May 9, 2014, at 8:58 PM, Cecilia E. Ford <ceford at wisc.edu> wrote:

> Consider the foundational work that embodied, visible actions do in real time interaction -- precisely timed to encode basic semantic stuff - e.g., reference, epistemic stance. Where and how "gesture" accompanies the "system" of language, as developed in/for co-present "communication" and collaborative action, simply cannot be cleaved off of the subject matter of linguistics, unless we are accountable for doing this separation for  methodological convenience and in enactment of the salience of orthography for literate societies and for us as scholars.
> Ceci
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