Review of research on gesture

[Goodwin, Charles]

A paper that might be relevant to this discussion:

2007 Environmentally Coupled Gestures. In Gesture and the Dynamic Dimension of Language. Susan Duncan, Justine Cassell, and Elena Levy, eds. Pp. 195-212. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3327733/Papers PDF/Goodwin Environmentally Gestures.pdf<https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3327733/Papers%20PDF/Goodwin%20Environmentally%20Gestures.pdf>

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Charles Goodwin
cgoodwinCharles Goodwin
     Applied Linguistics
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     UCLA
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On May 8, 2014, at 3:45 AM, Everett, Daniel <DEVERETT at bentley.edu<mailto:DEVERETT at bentley.edu>> wrote:

http://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/002084

Folks,

This paper reviews the very important research on gestures of David McNeill and many others, as well as  the history of gesture studies and their significance for language evolution, as well as for psycholingusitics, typology, functional and formal linguistics. The abstract:

"This paper is a review article about the pioneering work of G. David McNeill and various others on the interaction of gestures with human language and their vital role in the evolution of human language. McNeill argues, for example, that language and gesture must have begun together, that neither could have preceded the other. He also makes the case that the gesture-syntax connection was the most important step in language evolution and that compositionality and recursion played lesser, secondary (though extremely important) roles. I argue that McNeill's work is compatible with various papers and books of my own, especially Everett (2012). I further argue that McNeill's work supports the research program of "embodied cogntion." I argue that linguistic field researchers, theoreticians, and typologists cannot continue to work in a "gesture vacuum.”"

Dan