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基本説明
異なる言語圏の被験者に同じマンガを見せた際の身ぶりの反応の共通性から、発話と思考に対する身ぶりの関係を＜心像と言語の弁証法＞として、心理的成長の段階に位置付ける、２５年間の研究の集大成。
New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2005. "David McNeill's book is a momentous contribution to our understanding of kinetic and visual expression...McNeill's detailed descriptions of how gestures represent ideas contribute greatly to our understanding of images as carriers of abstractions". - Rudolf Arnhiem.
Full Description
David McNeill, a pioneer in the ongoing study of the relationship between gesture and language, here argues that gestures are active participants in both speaking and thinking. He posits that gestures are key ingredients in an "imagery-language dialectic" that fuels speech and thought. The smallest unit of this dialectic is the growth point, a snapshot of an utterance at its beginning psychological stage. In "Gesture and Thought", the central growth point comes from a Tweety Bird cartoon. Over the course of twenty-five years, the McNeill Lab showed this cartoon to numerous subjects who spoke a variety of languages, and a fascinating pattern emerged. The shape and timing of gestures depends not only on what speakers see but on what they take to be distinctive; this, in turn, depends on the context. Those who remembered the same context saw the same distinctions and used similar gestures; those who forgot the context understood something different and changed gestures or used none at all. Thus, the gesture becomes part of the growth point - the building block of language and thought.
"Gesture and Thought" is an ambitious project in the ongoing study of how we communicate and how language is connected to thought.
