Panel Discussion by Eve Sweetser and Irene Mittelberg on Gestures in Language Learning, November 5, 2004
Panel Discussion: Gestures in Language Learning Gesture and Language: Reassessing Traditional Boundaries Eve Sweetser, Linguisics Department, UC Berkeley Gesture and language are traditionally treated as two separate and separable phenomena. They are assumed to be crucially different in “kind” in numerous ways: gesture is holistic, flexible, and iconic, while language is analytic, conventional, and formally…