Rethinking body language : how hand movements reveal hidden thoughts /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: a new perspective on an old problem
- Two separate languages?
- Where the action is a remarkable biological miracle?
- Images in the hands, images in the mind
- Different vehicles of meaning
- Gestures and the frustrations of everyday life
- Speech is only half the story
- Who or what the hands portray
- How our eyes are drawn to the gestures of others : the gesture limits itself intelligently to what matters?
- Manipulating the salience of individual elements to see how gestures respond
- How metaphoric gestures affect us
- Putting iconic gestures into TV advertisements
- How iconic gestures can leak the truth
- Unconscious gesture can leak unconscious attitude
- Concluding remarks
- References.