Hand and Mind: What Gestures Reveal about Thought

by David McNeill

Using data from more than ten years of research, David McNeill shows that gestures do not simply form a part of what is said and meant but have an impact on thought itself. Hand and Mind persuasively argues that because gestures directly transfer mental images to visible forms, conveying ideas that language cannot always express, we must examine language and gesture together to unveil the operations of the mind.

Genres: Linguistics, Psychology, Science

423 pages, Hardcover

First published August 15, 1992

About the author

David McNeill (born 1933 in California, USA)[1] is an American psychologist and writer specializing in scientific research into psycholinguistics and especially the relationship of language to thought, and the gestures that accompany discourse.


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Reviews

[Heather · Rating 4 out of 5]

The inspiration for my undergraduate research.