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9. From Movement to Gesture

Types of Movement

Instrumental

(reaching, grasping)

 Locomotive

(walking, sitting)

 Expressive

(pointing, gesturing)
Knowledge of movement is in the movement (Merleau-Ponty, 1945)

"Knowledge of gesture is in the gesture" (Paul Ricoeur, 1992)

Is the know-how of gesture (expressive movement) of the same sort as the know-how of instrumental or locomotive movement?

Experiments with IW to answer this question

David McNeill, Psychology and Linguistics, University of Chicago

McNeill. 1992. Hand and Mind

Cole, Gallagher, McNeill, et al (1998)

Gallagher, Cole, and McNeill (in press)

Gestures

  • Morphokinetic properties of gesture: shape and spatial design of gesture

  • Topokinetic properties of gesture: aspects pertaining to location and spatial target

    (Cole and Paillard, 1996)

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