Re: [xmca] Analyses of gesture & speech

I find Chuck Goodwin's work on gesture and embodied practices among
the very best and Candy Goodwin's new book, The Hidden Life of Girls:
Games of Stance, Status, and Exclusion another excellent example.
Both do such terrific work--so instructive yet clear and wonderful to
read. Kris

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On Apr 28, 2007, at 10:33 AM, Emily Duvall wrote:

> Jim Lantolf at Penn State does research on gesture and 2nd
> language. Also, at the University of Nevada LV - Steve McCafferty.
> And...vol, 14 (1) - Jan 2004 - of the International Journal of
> Applied Linguistics has several articles.
> Best,
> Emily
>
> Michael A. Evans wrote:
>> Dear All,
>>
>> I was hoping you could point me to resources that critique discourse
>> analysis as an overly linguistic approach to interaction and meaning
>> making...my request is based on a desire to ground analysis of
>> video data of
>> children using manipulatives (both physical and graphically-based) in
>> collaborative efforts...what I want to capture is not only the
>> speech but
>> also gesture of primary students as they try to make sense of basic
>> geometric concepts and principles using manipulatives (tangrams,
>> pentominoes, geoboards, etc)...I¹m searching for both philosophical
>> (Vygotsky, Dewey, Pierce, Mead) and methodological references that
>> emphasize
>> the need to examine gesture and speech simultaneously...
>>
>> As for the latter, I¹ve recently been working with David McNeill
>> and his
>> group at the U. of Chicago (http://mcneilllab.uchicago.edu/), but
>> was hoping
>> I could get more leads from the group...
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Michael~
>
>
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