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... GESTURES Gestures we now take for granted as part of the speaker's revelation of his notions and his attitudes about his ideas . Occasionally we may observe gestures about gestures in the same manner that we have words about words ...
... GESTURES Gestures we now take for granted as part of the speaker's revelation of his notions and his attitudes about his ideas . Occasionally we may observe gestures about gestures in the same manner that we have words about words ...
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... gestures ; either those of the adult , or those of the child . In the former case , the child responds first to the adult's gestures - for instance , his mother's outstretched arms - and then he is trained to respond to the accompany ...
... gestures ; either those of the adult , or those of the child . In the former case , the child responds first to the adult's gestures - for instance , his mother's outstretched arms - and then he is trained to respond to the accompany ...
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... gestures : the symbolic , the habitual , and the autistic . Language gestures not only point or portray ; they also symbolize . Apart from the artificial development of a sign language based upon the written alpha- bet , many of the ...
... gestures : the symbolic , the habitual , and the autistic . Language gestures not only point or portray ; they also symbolize . Apart from the artificial development of a sign language based upon the written alpha- bet , many of the ...
Contents
Preface Chapter 1 An Overview I | 1 |
The Mechanisms of Speech | 18 |
The Sound of Speech | 35 |
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Speech: Code, Meaning, and Communication John Wilson Black,Wilbur Erwin Moore No preview available - 1973 |
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A. E. Housman action answer audience become behavior cent cerebral cortex Chap communication Company consonants cortex course Craig Baird culture debate decibels discussion effective evaluation example experience express fact frequency function gestures H. L. Mencken hand hear human ideas individual instance interest knowledge language learned List listeners logical loudness main motion meaning mental microphone mind motives movement muscles nerve observed oral organization patterns pauses person phonetics phrases pitch poem practice privileged motions probably pronunciation Psychology public address question radio reader recording relations response selected sentence Slurvian social sound of speech sound pressure level sound waves speaker speaking speech sounds statement structure style syllable symbols T. S. Eliot talk telephone thinking thought tion topic University utterance vocabulary vocal vocal folds voice vowel Wendell Johnson words York