Gesture, Language and Cognition

This course is an introduction to research on speech accompanying gesture. We will discuss how gesture is coordinated with language and how it contributes to thinking. The course consists of three lectures (gesture typology, self-oriented and communicative functions of gesture, and cross-cultural differences in gesture) and two practical workshops (division of labour between speech and gesture, metaphorical gestures), where you will analyze gestures in video recordings and discuss your observations with the rest of the class.