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.<br><br><a href="http://www.univie.ac.at/wissenschaftstheorie/srb/srb/gesture.html">http://www.univie.ac.at/wissenschaftstheorie/srb/srb/gesture.html</a><br>
<br>Maggie Ronkin<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 10:31 PM, Amy Sheldon <<a href="mailto:asheldon@umn.edu" target="_blank">asheldon@umn.edu</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
There may not be much empirical descriptive work that is reliable<br>
that's been done.<br>
To make generalizations from fact (not stereotypes) one would have to<br>
analyze actual recorded data, and lots of it.<br>
Technology for doing that is very new.<br>
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There is a journal called Gesture.<br>
At the U of Texas, the proceedings for the First Int'l gesture<br>
conference (about 2002) is on line at the "International House of<br>
gesture" website in the School of Communication.<br>
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I think there's been some work on gender differences in smiling<br>
behe person whose work you'd want to access is Ekman. He's a<br>
communication scholar and has been doing "nonverbal" research for a<br>
long time.<br>
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Amy Sheldon<br>
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On Mar 24, 2008, at 9:02 PM, ABIGAIL RITA ARMOUR wrote:<br>
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> I am trying to write a paper for a gender and language class at my<br>
> university about how men and women use body language in<br>
> conversation. However, I really do not have any idea where to<br>
> start and was wondering if anybody had any suggestions. I am<br>
> really open to anything along these lines because I am ready to go<br>
> where the research will take me. Thank you very much for your help!<br>
><br>
> Abby<br>
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