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Gesture and Thought by David McNeill
Booksplease Price: $63.90David 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... -
Language and Gesture by David McNeill 9780521777612
RRP: $94.50Booksplease Price: $87.40This landmark study examines the role of gestures in relation to speech and thought. Leading scholars, including psychologists, linguists and anthropologists, offer state-of-the-art analyses to... -
Language and Gesture by David McNeill 9780521771665
RRP: $100.80Booksplease Price: $97.84This landmark study examines the role of gestures in relation to speech and thought. Leading scholars, including psychologists, linguists and anthropologists, offer state-of-the-art analyses to... -
Gesture and Thought by David Mcneill 9780226514628
Booksplease Price: $198.74Gesturing is such an integral yet unconscious part of communication that we are mostly oblivious to it. But if you observe anyone in conversation, you are likely to see his or her fingers, hands, and... -
The Conceptual Basis of Language by David McNeill 9781138988958
RRP: $102.88Booksplease Price: $92.27In this volume, the author deals explicitly and literally with the speech-thought relationship. Departing boldly from contemporary linguistic and psycholinguistic thinking, the author offers us one... -
Language Is Gesture G. David McNeill 9780262552912
RRP: $90.30Booksplease Price: $72.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262552912Author G. David McNeillFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press... -
Hand and Mind: What Gestures Reveal about Thought David McNeill 9780226561349
RRP: $90.30Booksplease Price: $90.13Using data from more than ten years of research, David McNeill shows that gestures do not simply form a part of what is said and meant but have an impact on thought itself. Hand and Mind persuasively... -
How Language Began: Gesture and Speech in Human Evolution by David McNeill 9781107021211
RRP: $157.50Booksplease Price: $151.77Human language is not the same as human speech. We use gestures and signs to communicate alongside, or instead of, speaking. Yet gestures and speech are processed in the same areas of the human... -
How Language Began: Gesture and Speech in Human Evolution by David McNeill 9781107605497
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $61.07Human language is not the same as human speech. We use gestures and signs to communicate alongside, or instead of, speaking. Yet gestures and speech are processed in the same areas of the human... -
Why We Gesture: The Surprising Role of Hand Movements in Communication by David McNeill 9781316502365
RRP: $58.80Booksplease Price: $55.17Gestures are fundamental to the way we communicate, yet our understanding of this communicative impulse is clouded by a number of ingrained assumptions. Are gestures merely ornamentation to speech?... -
Gesture and Film: Signalling New Critical Perspectives by Nicholas Chare
RRP: $88.18Booksplease Price: $83.35Gesture has held a crucial role in cinema since its inception. In the absence of spoken words, early cinema frequently exploited the communicative potential of the gestures of actors. As this book... -
Semantics: An Interdisciplinary Reader in Philosophy, Linguistics and Psychology by Danny D. Steinberg 9780521204996
RRP: $119.70Booksplease Price: $116.45This 1978 book is a collaborative volume bringing together work in semantics from various disciplines, so that each may inform the other. Papers on philosophy from Charles Caton, David Wiggins,... -
A History of Japan, 1582-1941: Internal and External Worlds by L.M. Cullen 9780521529181
RRP: $75.60Booksplease Price: $70.98This 2003 book offers a distinctive overview of the internal and external pressures responsible for the making of modern Japan. L. M. Cullen argues that Japanese policies and fears have often been... -
Natural Disaster and Reconstruction in Asian Economies: A Global Synthesis of Shared Experiences by Kinnia Shuk-Ting Yau 9781137374936
Booksplease Price: $190.18Based on conference proceedings presented at The Chinese University of Hong Kong in November 2012, Natural Disaster and Reconstruction in Asian Economies offers leading insight into and viewpoints on... -
Ideophones and the Evolution of Language by John Haiman 9781107069602
RRP: $174.30Booksplease Price: $159.22Ideophones have been recognized in modern linguistics at least since 1935, but they still lie far outside the concerns of mainstream (Western) linguistic debate, in part because they are most richly... -
Japan Now! A Japanese Language Reader: 17 Bilingual Stories and Essays about Contemporary Japanese Culture (With Free Online Audio Recordings) Eriko Sato, Ph.D. 9784805317846
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $24.68Learn about contemporary Japan while improving your language skills!JAPAN NOW! A Japanese Language Reader contains 17 fascinating stories and essays about contemporary Japanese society in parallel... -
Natural Disaster and Reconstruction in Asian Economies: A Global Synthesis of Shared Experiences by Yau Shuk-Ting Kinnia 9781349477128
Booksplease Price: $190.18Based on conference proceedings presented at The Chinese University of Hong Kong in November 2012, Natural Disaster and Reconstruction in Asian Economies offers leading insight into and viewpoints on... -
Nationalism in Asia – A History Since 1945 by J Kingston 9780470673010
RRP: $136.40Booksplease Price: $126.76Using a comparative, interdisciplinary approach, Nationalism in Asia analyzes currents of nationalism in five contemporary Asian societies: China, India, Indonesia, Japan, and South Korea. Explores... -
An Image of the Soul in Speech: Plato and the Problem of Socrates by David N. McNeill 9780271035864
Booksplease Price: $76.19In this book, David McNeill illuminates Plato's distinctive approach to philosophy by examining how his literary portrayal of Socrates manifests an essential interdependence between philosophic and... -
An Image of the Soul in Speech: Plato and the Problem of Socrates by David N. McNeill 9780271035857
RRP: $130.18Booksplease Price: $125.06In this book, David McNeill illuminates Plato's distinctive approach to philosophy by examining how his literary portrayal of Socrates manifests an essential interdependence between philosophic and... -
The Best of Technology Writing by Brendan I. Koerner 9780472031955
Booksplease Price: $45.89"The essays collected in this book are sparkling, imaginative pieces of journalism that just happen to be about technology. People steeped in the world of AJAX or Massively Mulitplayer Online Games... -
Our Racist Heart?: An Exploration of Unconscious Prejudice in Everyday Life by Geoffrey Beattie
RRP: $60.88Booksplease Price: $57.18Few people today would admit to being a racist, or to making assumptions about individuals based on their skin colour, or on their gender or social class. In this book, leading psychologist Geoffrey... -
Rethinking Body Language: How Hand Movements Reveal Hidden Thoughts by Geoffrey Beattie
Booksplease Price: $87.57Challenging all of our old assumptions about the subject, Rethinking Body Language builds on the most recent cutting-edge research to offer a new theoretical perspective on this subject that will... -
Why Aren't We Saving the Planet?: A Psychologist's Perspective by Geoffrey Beattie
RRP: $52.48Booksplease Price: $50.00Global warming. Many of us believe that it is somebody else's problem, that it will affect other people and that other people will come up with the solution. This is not true. "Global" warming is a...