Publications

Publication details [#28490]

Crowder, Elaine M. and Denis Newman. 1993. Telling what they know: The role of gesture and language in children´s science explanations. Pragmatics & Cognition 1 (2) : 341–376.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

child language | classroom conversation | gesture | representational structure | scientific discussion

Place, Publisher

John Benjamins

ISBN

0929-0907

Journal DOI

10.1075/pc

Annotation

This study shows that representational gestures in the science classroom function as redundant to or enhancing of ideas communicated via speech, or as carriers of scientific insights.