Gesture Studies and Second Language Acquisition: A Review

Abstract

Although this volume focuses primarily on gesture, it is important to acknowledge that gesture is a part of nonverbal communication as a whole and has been studied as such (see Chapter 2), despite the fact that gesture studies has become a discipline in its own right. Communication is of course multimodal, taking place through “kinesic, kinetic, vocal, chemical, thermal, and dermal” channels for “emission,” and “visual, auditory, olfactory, dermal, and kinesthetic” channels for “perception” (Poyatos 1980, p. 114). Moreover, although we recognize that the term “embodiment” is ambiguous, having taken on a number of philosophical and theoretical determinations (see Zlatev 2005), for our purposes we want to embrace the general principle that as human beings we live our lives through embodied experience within specific cultural historical contexts, and that this has an impact on how we communicate as well as how we think.

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