Seminars

Gesture as a Window Onto Conceptualization by Gale Stam (National Louis University) According to McNeill (1992, 2005, 2012) gestures are as much a part of language as speech is. Together gesture and speech develop from a 'growth point' that has both imagistic and verbal aspects. This model for verbal thought is ""a 'language-imagery' or language-gesture […]

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart by Albert Costa We are constantly making decisions of many different sorts. From more mundane decisions such as which clothes to wear every morning or where […]