Harrison, Simon,  1981- <br/><br/>
The impulse to gesture :  where language, minds, and bodies intersect / 
Simon Harrison. 
 - xix, 231 pages :  illustrations ;  24 cm 
<br/><br/> Revision of the author's Ph.D thesis in English Studies from Université Bordeaux 3, 2009. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-227) and index. 
<br/><br/>The impulse to gesture: spontaneous but constrained  -- The grammar-Gesture nexus: A mechanism for regularity in gesture  -- Sync points in speech: evidence of grammatical affiliation for gesture -- Gesture as construal: blockage, force, and distance in space and mind  -- Gesture sequences: wrist as hinge for shifts in discourse -- Patterns of gesturing: the business of 'horizontal palming'  -- Wiping away: embodied interaction in speech and sign -- Impulse theory: how, when, and why we gesture. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781108404693 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2018026099 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Speech and gesture.<br/>English language--Negatives.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>419 HAR