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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.<div>I don't know if there's anything on gender in these books.</div><div>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.</div><div>You can find her webpage at Northwestern U.</div><div>Amy Sheldon</div><div><br><div><html>On Mar 25, 2008, at 9:00 AM, Suzanne Evans Wagner wrote:</html><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>The work of David McNeil, a psycholinguist who works on gesture, might also be of interest. Try:</div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div>McNeil, D. 1992. Hand and Mind: What Gestures Reveal About Thought. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. </div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div>I don't recall whether he looks at gender, but it's a good general work on the relationship between kinetics and language.</div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><div>Suzanne Wagner</div><br><div><div>On Mar 24, 2008, at 11:34 PM, Liz Ronkin wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">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> <br> 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> <br> 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> <font color="#888888"><br> Amy Sheldon<br> </font><div><div></div><div><br> On Mar 24, 2008, at 9:02 PM, ABIGAIL RITA ARMOUR wrote:<br> <br> > 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> </div></div></blockquote></div><br></blockquote></div><br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>