body language

[Amy Sheldon]

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.
I don't know if there's anything on gender in these books.
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.
You can find her webpage at Northwestern U.
Amy Sheldon

On Mar 25, 2008, at 9:00 AM, Suzanne Evans Wagner wrote:

> The work of David McNeil, a psycholinguist who works on gesture,  
> might also be of interest. Try:
>
> McNeil, D. 1992. Hand and Mind: What Gestures Reveal About Thought.  
> Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
>
> I don't recall whether he looks at gender, but it's a good general  
> work on the relationship between kinetics and language.
>
> Suzanne Wagner
>
> On Mar 24, 2008, at 11:34 PM, Liz Ronkin wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>> http://www.univie.ac.at/wissenschaftstheorie/srb/srb/gesture.html
>>
>> Maggie Ronkin
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 10:31 PM, Amy Sheldon <asheldon at umn.edu>  
>> wrote:
>> There may not be much empirical descriptive work  that is reliable
>> that's been done.
>> To make generalizations from fact (not stereotypes) one would have to
>> analyze actual recorded data, and lots of it.
>> Technology for doing that is very new.
>>
>> There is a journal called Gesture.
>> At the U of Texas, the proceedings for the First Int'l gesture
>> conference (about 2002) is on line at the "International House of
>> gesture" website in the School of Communication.
>>
>> I think there's been some work on gender differences in smiling
>> behe person whose work you'd want to access is Ekman. He's a
>> communication scholar and has been doing "nonverbal" research for a
>> long time.
>>
>> Amy Sheldon
>>
>> On Mar 24, 2008, at 9:02 PM, ABIGAIL RITA ARMOUR wrote:
>>
>> > I am trying to write a paper for a gender and language class at my
>> > university about how men and women use body language in
>> > conversation.  However, I really do not have any idea where to
>> > start and was wondering if anybody had any suggestions.  I am
>> > really open to anything along these lines because I am ready to go
>> > where the research will take me.  Thank you very much for your  
>> help!
>> >
>> > Abby
>>
>

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