Spencer D. Kelly
List of John Benjamins publications in which Spencer D. Kelly is involved.
Journal
ISSN 1568-1475 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9773
Title
Why Gesture?: How the hands function in speaking, thinking and communicating
Edited by Ruth Breckinridge Church, Martha W. Alibali and Spencer D. Kelly
Co-speech gestures are ubiquitous: when people speak, they almost always produce gestures. Gestures reflect content in the mind of the speaker, often under the radar and frequently using rich mental images that complement speech. What are gestures doing? Why do we use them? This book is the first… read more[Gesture Studies, 7] 2017. vii, 433 pp.
2020 Emotion matters: The effect of hand gesture on emotionally valenced sentences Gesture 19:1, pp. 41–71 | Article
Recent theories and neural models of co-speech gesture have extensively considered its cognitive role in language comprehension but have ignored the emotional function. We investigated the integration of speech and co-speech gestures in memory for verbal information with different emotional… read more
2017 Chapter 11. Exploring the boundaries of gesture-speech integration during language comprehension Why Gesture?: How the hands function in speaking, thinking and communicating, Church, Ruth Breckinridge, Martha W. Alibali and Spencer D. Kelly (eds.), pp. 243–265 | Chapter
Abstract
The present review explores the integrated relationship between gesture and speech during language comprehension. Taking a broad view, it presents a conceptual framework that approaches the comprehension of gesture and speech along three different dimensions: (1)… read more
2017 Chapter 1. Understanding gesture: Description, mechanism and function Why Gesture?: How the hands function in speaking, thinking and communicating, Church, Ruth Breckinridge, Martha W. Alibali and Spencer D. Kelly (eds.), pp. 3–10 | Chapter
Abstract
Gestures offer additional information that is not captured in speech. This essential finding is a bouncing off point for the chapters in this book, which attempt to explain what purpose gesture serves when we speak, think and communicate. Aristotle’s framework is used to… read more
2004 Gesture and right hemisphere involvement in evaluating lecture material Gesture 4:1, pp. 25–42 | Article
This study investigated hemispheric lateralization in comprehending and evaluating lecture material with and without nonverbal hand gestures. Participants watched a lecture with and without gesture under conditions of cognitive load in the left or right hemisphere. There were no effects of gesture… read more
Phonetic and affective roles of co-speech gesture in L2 pronunciation Journal of Second Language Pronunciation: Online-First Articles | Article
Second-language (L2) instructors often use hand gestures to teach pronunciation, yet empirical benefits vary in size and scope. Focusing on L2 Mandarin tone production, we explored whether physically exaggerating and emotionally emphasizing tone gestures enhanced pronunciation. Participants… read more