Why is it harder to talk if we don’t move our hands? Even when we’re talking on the phone we feel the need to gesture to aid communication. A new book offers a look at the relatively new field of gesture studies. And: Ever wonder why we describe the...
The new book Gesture: A Slim Guide (Bookshop|Amazon) by linguist Lauren Gawne includes some fascinating studies about the movements that accompany spoken or signed language. In one, participants were asked to learn rules of a game, then explain...
Why is it harder to talk if we don’t gesture? Why do we still move our hands if we’re talking on the phone but the other person can’t see us? Such questions are tackled in the new book Gesture: A Slim Guide (Bookshop|Amazon), a...