Language as Sensuous Action: Sir Richard Paget, Kenneth Burke, and Gesture-Speech Theory

Temporal synchrony between speech, action and gesture during language production

Temporal synchrony between speech, action and gesture during language production R. Breckinridge Church, Spencer Kelly & David Holcombe a Psychology Department, Northeastern Illinois University, 5500 N. St. Louis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60625, USA b Psychology Department, Neuroscience Program and Center for Language and Brain, Colgate University, 13 Oak Drive, Hamilton, NY 13346, USA Published onli...

The processing of speech, gesture, and action during language comprehension.

Hand gestures and speech form a single integrated system of meaning during language comprehension, but is gesture processed with speech in a unique fashion? We had subjects watch multimodal videos that presented auditory (words) and visual (gestures and actions on objects) information. Half of the subjects related the audio information to a written prime presented before the video, and the othe...

Sir James Paget (1814-1894).

Sir James Paget (Fig. 1) formed with William Fergusson (1808–1862) and Sir Benjamin Brodie (1783–1762) a triumvirate of surgical ‘greats’ in England in the nineteenth century w1x. Paget was born in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, England, and until 20 yr of age had not ventured further than a few miles from his birthplace. His father, Samuel, was a prosperous businessman who unfortunately went bankrup...

Language in Action a review of Reinterpreting Gesture as Language . Language " in Action

[Sir Richard Doll].

S ir Richard Doll falleció en Oxford a la edad de 92 años el 24 de Julio de 2005 a causa de un fallo cardiaco agudo. Había pasado por varias jubilaciones: de la presidencia de Regius Professor of Medicine en 1979; de Green College, el cual fundó y donde cinco años fue director; y de la Universidad de Oxford en 1983. Tras 22 años de su última jubilación “oficial”, aún se complacía en escribir ar...