body language

[Suzanne Evans Wagner]

The work of David McNeil, a psycholinguist who works on gesture,  
might also be of interest. Try:

McNeil, D. 1992. Hand and Mind: What Gestures Reveal About Thought.  
Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

I don't recall whether he looks at gender, but it's a good general  
work on the relationship between kinetics and language.

Suzanne Wagner

On Mar 24, 2008, at 11:34 PM, Liz Ronkin wrote:

> Below is the URL for An Agenda for Gesture Studies by Adam Kendon,  
> which appeared in Vol 7 (3) of the Semiotic Review of Books.  There  
> are excellent references and a bibliography under different topical  
> headings.
>
> http://www.univie.ac.at/wissenschaftstheorie/srb/srb/gesture.html
>
> Maggie Ronkin
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 10:31 PM, Amy Sheldon <asheldon at umn.edu>  
> wrote:
> There may not be much empirical descriptive work  that is reliable
> that's been done.
> To make generalizations from fact (not stereotypes) one would have to
> analyze actual recorded data, and lots of it.
> Technology for doing that is very new.
>
> There is a journal called Gesture.
> At the U of Texas, the proceedings for the First Int'l gesture
> conference (about 2002) is on line at the "International House of
> gesture" website in the School of Communication.
>
> I think there's been some work on gender differences in smiling
> behe person whose work you'd want to access is Ekman. He's a
> communication scholar and has been doing "nonverbal" research for a
> long time.
>
> Amy Sheldon
>
> On Mar 24, 2008, at 9:02 PM, ABIGAIL RITA ARMOUR wrote:
>
> > I am trying to write a paper for a gender and language class at my
> > university about how men and women use body language in
> > conversation.  However, I really do not have any idea where to
> > start and was wondering if anybody had any suggestions.  I am
> > really open to anything along these lines because I am ready to go
> > where the research will take me.  Thank you very much for your help!
> >
> > Abby
>

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