Ruth Breckinridge Church

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List of John Benjamins publications for which Ruth Breckinridge Church plays a role.

Journal

Gesture (GEST)

Edited by Ruth Breckinridge Church

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

[Gesture Studies, 7] 2017. vii, 433 pp.

Subjects Cognition and language | Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Gesture Studies | Pragmatics

Articles

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Church, Ruth Breckinridge and Susan Goldin-Meadow 2017 Chapter 18. So how does gesture function in speaking, communication, and thinking? Why Gesture?: How the hands function in speaking, thinking and communicating, Church, Ruth Breckinridge, Martha W. Alibali and Spencer D. Kelly (eds.), pp. 397–412 | Chapter

Abstract This concluding chapter reflects on the book’s collected works that encapsulate, in the Aristotelian sense, gesture’s efficient causes (i.e., mechanisms that stimulate gesture) and its final causes (i.e., purposes that gesture serves). We conclude that gesture is… read more

Kelly, Spencer D., Ruth Breckinridge Church and Martha W. Alibali 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

Nathan, Mitchell J., Martha W. Alibali and Ruth Breckinridge Church 2017 Chapter 13. Making and breaking common ground: How teachers use gesture to foster learning in the classroom Why Gesture?: How the hands function in speaking, thinking and communicating, Church, Ruth Breckinridge, Martha W. Alibali and Spencer D. Kelly (eds.), pp. 285–316 | Chapter

Abstract Teachers regularly use gesture as part of multimodal instruction to both break and make common ground. Teachers break common ground when they introduce new ideas and new mathematical practices. Teachers make common ground by connecting new ideas to students’ prior… read more

Carlson, Crystal, Steven A. Jacobs, Michelle Perry and Ruth Breckinridge Church 2014 The effect of gestured instruction on the learning of physical causality problems Gesture 14:1, pp. 26–45 | Article

Recent research has demonstrated instruction that includes gesture can greatly impact the learning of certain mathematics tasks for children and much of this work relies on face-to-face instruction. We extend the work on this problem by asking how gesture in instruction impacts adult learning from… read more

Alibali, Martha W., Andrew G. Young, Noelle M. Crooks, Amelia Yeo, Matthew S. Wolfgram, Iasmine M. Ledesma, Mitchell J. Nathan, Ruth Breckinridge Church and Eric J. Knuth 2013 Students learn more when their teacher has learned to gesture effectively Gesture 13:2, pp. 210–233 | Article

Teachers’ gestures are an integral part of their instructional communication. In this study, we provided a teacher with a tutorial about ways to use gesture in connecting ideas in mathematics instruction, and we asked the teacher to teach sample lessons about slope and intercept before and after… read more

Church, Ruth Breckinridge, Philip Garber and Kathryn Rogalski 2007 The role of gesture in memory and social communication Gesture 7:2, pp. 137–158 | Article

This study asked whether: (1) adults process representational gesture and (2) gesture is remembered over time. Forty-five college students (ages 22–38) were each randomly assigned to watch a set of Speech Only and Speech + Gesture video stimuli (containing statements that were extracted from social… read more