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Karl Fast on Interactionism, part 1

The Informed Life

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Why Do People Talk With Their Hands?

There is a whole bunch of different things that we do that really can't be accounted for unless we if everything is a pragmatic action. Why do you talk with your hands when you're phone or, say, on a podcast? You can't see the other person, but people still make these gestures. We actually use these gestures to shape and facilitate and grease our internal cognitive mechanism.

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