Review of research on gesture

[Everett, Daniel]

Obviously I am not talking about people who have “spent their careers” doing this. I am talking to the average linguist.

However, the fact that you use sign language as your example suggests that the work of McNeill might be profitably be explored. 

Dan

On May 9, 2014, at 12:30 AM, Sherman Wilcox <wilcox at unm.edu> wrote:

> On 8 May 2014, at 15:22, Everett, Daniel wrote:
> 
>> This doesn't quite get the point, Sherman. Gesture is not sign language, though that is part of the continuum.
> 
> My point was not that gesture is sign language. My point was that lots of people have been exploring the relation of language and gesture for a long time. Those of us who have spent our careers doing this have not been working in a gesture vacuum.
> 
> -- 
> Sherman