body language

[Koller, Veronika]

You may also wish to look at the work by Cornelia Mueller and her team at the Berlin Gesture Centre, some of which has been published in English: http://www.berlingesturecenter.de/. She has in the past collaborated with Alan Cienki at the VU University Amsterdam. 
 
Veronika

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McNeil also has a later book, and I believe there was a festschrift in his honor in the last few years, with his collaborators' work. 
I don't know if there's anything on gender in these books.
But Justine Cassell, who is one of his former students, has done a lot of work on digital avatars, and gender does figure in her work.
You can find her webpage at Northwestern U.
Amy Sheldon

On Mar 25, 2008, at 9:00 AM, Suzanne Evans Wagner wrote:


	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