
Amanda Gorman, Poet Laureate and Gesturer Laureate
She shows us that gestures are not mere hand-waving. They can convey images that magnify speech or even add new ideas that are not found in the spoken word
Susan Goldin-Meadow is the Beardsley Ruml Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, and has written books and articles on the gestures that we spontaneously use when we talk and how they help us communicate and think.
She shows us that gestures are not mere hand-waving. They can convey images that magnify speech or even add new ideas that are not found in the spoken word
Gestures reveal subconscious knowledge and cement new ideas
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