<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><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></BODY></HTML>