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Kita, Sotaro and Emmorey, Karen (2023) Gesture links language and cognition for spoken and signed languages. Nature Reviews Psychology, 2 . pp. 407-420. doi:10.1038/s44159-023-00186-9 ISSN 2731-0574.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1038/s44159-023-00186-9
Abstract
Human communication combines language with gesture. Gesture contributes to human's unique ability to communicate about an infinite number of ideas in an efficient way and to generate representations that are useful for thinking. Gesture and language can be distinguished by distinct underlying modes of thinking and by gradations of conventionalization and the transparency of form-meaning relations. However, it is not always possible or useful to draw a sharp line between gesture and language. In this Review, we first describe how speakers and signers produce facial, manual, and body gestures. Then we describe how representational gesture encodes information, considering constraints from properties of languages, and how speakers and signers orchestrate language and gesture. Next, we review how gesture production shapes thinking for both signers and speakers. Then we consider gesture comprehension and how the meaning of gestures is integrated with language. We conclude with suggestions for further exploration of gesture as a critical part of the human mind.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Nature Reviews Psychology | ||||||||
Publisher: | Springer | ||||||||
ISSN: | 2731-0574 | ||||||||
Official Date: | July 2023 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 2 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 407-420 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1038/s44159-023-00186-9 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 13 April 2023 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 26 November 2023 | ||||||||
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