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30: Why do we gesture when we talk?

Lingthusiasm - A podcast that's enthusiastic about linguistics

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Is Gesture a Language?

i'm so pleased that i managed to convince you to reference gesture, even in a book on the intonet. We haven't come across a speech community yet who don't have gesture in their communicative little toolkit. But signed languages do have components that really should be analyzed gesturaly. Once you stop paying attention to gesture, it's really hard to stop. And i really apologize to all of you watching the spidio who are now going to be analyzing our gestures. I'm sure grection is going to a half the episode.

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