Speakers Use Gesture to Amplify Component Features and Concepts

Speakers Use Gesture to Amplify Component Features and Concepts 

In the second variant (Fig. 8.3), Libby s colleague reproduces the notion of strata in her own terms—with hands parallel. In this gesture, Libby s coL 

Strata variant 1 This gesture retains the parallelism that characterizes strata, but the gesture does not highlight the compression component of this gesture. 

Strata variant 2 In this variant, Libby s colleague depicts the movement of the strata as parallel places that. shift, but her gesture does not sh(Jw the compression that Libby depicts in her gesture. 

Strata variant 3 This gesture loses some of the visual character of the strata component as Libby s colleague amplifies the movement characteristic of compression. 

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