Spencer D. Kelly
List of John Benjamins publications for which Spencer D. Kelly plays a role.
Journal
ISSN 1568-1475 | E-ISSN 1569-9773
Title
Why Gesture?: How the hands function in speaking, thinking and communicating
Edited by Ruth Breckinridge Church, Martha W. Alibali and Spencer D. Kelly
[Gesture Studies, 7] 2017. vii, 433 pp.
Subjects Cognition and language | Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Gesture Studies | Pragmatics
2020 Emotion matters: The effect of hand gesture on emotionally valenced sentences Gesture 19:1, pp. 41–71 | Article
Recent theories and neural models of co-speech gesture have extensively considered its cognitive role in language comprehension but have ignored the emotional function. We investigated the integration of speech and co-speech gestures in memory for verbal information with different emotional… read more
2017 Chapter 11. Exploring the boundaries of gesture-speech integration during language comprehension Why Gesture?: How the hands function in speaking, thinking and communicating, Church, Ruth Breckinridge, Martha W. Alibali and Spencer D. Kelly (eds.), pp. 243–265 | Chapter
Abstract
The present review explores the integrated relationship between gesture and speech during language comprehension. Taking a broad view, it presents a conceptual framework that approaches the comprehension of gesture and speech along three different dimensions: (1)… read more
2017 Chapter 1. Understanding gesture: Description, mechanism and function Why Gesture?: How the hands function in speaking, thinking and communicating, Church, Ruth Breckinridge, Martha W. Alibali and Spencer D. Kelly (eds.), pp. 3–10 | Chapter
Abstract
Gestures offer additional information that is not captured in speech. This essential finding is a bouncing off point for the chapters in this book, which attempt to explain what purpose gesture serves when we speak, think and communicate. Aristotle’s framework is used to… read more
2004 Gesture and right hemisphere involvement in evaluating lecture material Gesture 4:1, pp. 25–42 | Article
This study investigated hemispheric lateralization in comprehending and evaluating lecture material with and without nonverbal hand gestures. Participants watched a lecture with and without gesture under conditions of cognitive load in the left or right hemisphere. There were no effects of gesture… read more