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Hand and Mind
What Gestures Reveal about Thought
Human thought is a kind of storytelling, the cognitive scientist Jerome Bruner has argued, an evolving narrative that we constantly and unconsciously construct in order to make sense of the world around us. One expression of that interior storytelling - namely language - was given to us, said the sardonic French philosopher Talleyrand, so that we can disguise those very thoughts, hide them from others behind a mask of words.
David McNeill suggests that another component of storytelling/thinking is a kind of parallel language, one that is far more revealing of what’s going on inside our heads. That language is made up of gestures—those fingered jabs and sweeps into the air, locating us and our actors in the imaginary space of stories. When we relate what happened in a movie we’ve just seen, McNeill writes, we retrace the plot gesturally; our shrugs and symbols betray our opinions, and a skilled observer can literally read our minds from our movements.
| Year | 1996 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | University Of Chicago Press |
| Order: | http://www.amazon.com/Hand-Min... |
| ISBN | 978-0226561349 |
| Keywords | cognitive science, gestural language, mental images, language and gesture |
| Synonym | Virtual Human |
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