Denis Newman

List of John Benjamins publications in which Denis Newman is involved.

Article

Crowder, Elaine M. and Denis Newman 1993 Telling what they know: The role of gesture and language in children's science explanations Pragmatics & Cognition 1:2, pp. 341–376 | Article

What is the role of gesture in classroom science talk? This study first approaches the question generally, by asking how children communicate their knowledge of the seasons (through language, gesture and/or deictic references to props). We then ask how gestures function as they interplay with… read more