Manual Communication The Negotiation of Meaning Embodied in Gesture

Manual Communication The Negotiation of Meaning Embodied in Gesture 

Perhaps the clearest example of the robustness of language comes from the fact that language is not tied to the mouth and ear but can also be processed by the hand and eye.  

Cain t talk about it, honey. Gotta show it.- 

This chapter argues that gestures are not merely the vehicles of semantic content. Instead, individuals can deploy gesture strategically to depict new 

To study how viewpoints affect a speaker s representation of risk, I have focused my analysis on an experienced roof bolter named Libby, who had participated in previous interviews and whose description of the process of roof bolting appears in chap. 6. In a follow-up interview in Osage, West Virginia, in February, 1999, I asked Libby to demonstrate how to insert a roof bolt in three different combinations of speech and gesture. I speculated that different 

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