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THINKING WITH YOUR HANDS
The Surprising Science Behind How Gestures Shape Our Thoughts
This is Goldin-Meadow's first trade book and the one she's been preparing for her entire career. She draws on her previous academic work to make a sweeping and remarkable argument for the centrality of gesture in human communication. Drawing on decades of research into language development, she reveals that gestures are not only universal, but essential to conveying information in conversation - and that by learning to harness them, we can all learn to communicate better.
Imagine a friend who earnestly tells you that he thinks men and women are equally good leaders. But when he talks about men's leadership skills, he places his palm at eye-level, and when he talks about women's leadership skills, he places his palm a bit lower, at mouth-level. His hands have given him away: even if he truly thinks that his views are egalitarian, he holds an implicit belief that is now there for all the word to see. You swear you heard him say something disparaging, even if you don't fully realize why.
In Thinking With Your Hands, Goldin-Meadow reveals just how essential gestures are to how we think and communicate. Drawing on decades of research, including experiments and studies from throughout her own illustrious career, she presents the definitive overview of the most important feature of human communication that you've never thought about. Gesture is a universal behavior common to every culture and language. It's found among Deaf people who use their hands to speak in sign language and blind people who have never seen anyone gesture before. Far from being an affective flourish, Goldin-Meadow argues, gestures are an integral piece of the conversation - even if we don't realize it while we're using them. They give form to ideas that are difficult to phrase in language and help us express ideas that we are grappling with but haven't yet fully grasped. Indeed, understanding gesture compels us to re-think everything from to how we set development milestones for children, to what's admissible in a court of law, to whether FaceTime is a good communication technology.
A landmark achievement by a star in the field of cognitive psychology, Thinking With Your Hands reveals the entire landscape of communication that's hidden in our hands and promises to transform the way we think about language for decades to come.
Susan Goldin-Meadow is the Beardsley Ruml Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Psychology and Committee on Human Development at the University of Chicago. She has made pioneering contributions to the study of language development and cognition, especially her work of how gestures facilitate learning and communication, especially in children. Goldin-Meadow is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the AAAS. She's received a Guggenheim fellowship, a James McKeen Cattell Fellowship, and the Rumelhart Prize. She lives in Chicago, Illinois.
In Thinking With Your Hands, Goldin-Meadow reveals just how essential gestures are to how we think and communicate. Drawing on decades of research, including experiments and studies from throughout her own illustrious career, she presents the definitive overview of the most important feature of human communication that you've never thought about. Gesture is a universal behavior common to every culture and language. It's found among Deaf people who use their hands to speak in sign language and blind people who have never seen anyone gesture before. Far from being an affective flourish, Goldin-Meadow argues, gestures are an integral piece of the conversation - even if we don't realize it while we're using them. They give form to ideas that are difficult to phrase in language and help us express ideas that we are grappling with but haven't yet fully grasped. Indeed, understanding gesture compels us to re-think everything from to how we set development milestones for children, to what's admissible in a court of law, to whether FaceTime is a good communication technology.
A landmark achievement by a star in the field of cognitive psychology, Thinking With Your Hands reveals the entire landscape of communication that's hidden in our hands and promises to transform the way we think about language for decades to come.
Susan Goldin-Meadow is the Beardsley Ruml Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Psychology and Committee on Human Development at the University of Chicago. She has made pioneering contributions to the study of language development and cognition, especially her work of how gestures facilitate learning and communication, especially in children. Goldin-Meadow is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the AAAS. She's received a Guggenheim fellowship, a James McKeen Cattell Fellowship, and the Rumelhart Prize. She lives in Chicago, Illinois.
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