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October 15, 2005
Lunch with Rachel
I was eating lunch at Bartol today with Rachel, and I remembered that I hadn't blogged yet about hand gestures, so I watched Rachel to see if I noticed any. I had never noticed it before, but Rachel is a very expressive person. She used deitic gestures ofen because we were talking about Brookline ave and she was showing me where it was(without realizing it) using gestures whenever she mentioned "Brookline Ave". She also used cohesive gestures to string together related sentences and ideas. Once I stared noticing these gestures, I couldn't stop seeing them which was so weird because I had such a hard time trying to remember to watch for them before. I think because we are so used to seeing people gesture that it just become natural and something that we don't even notice. While watching Rachel, I noticed a pattern that we also saw in class on the computer program, she seems to gesture more when she was using big or important words, or at the beginning or the end of a sentence.
Posted by lcismardin at October 15, 2005 05:14 PM
Comments
I find that we get used to natural movements too. We become so used to people that not only do we not become obstructed by their gestures (if they are very wild) but we may also mimic them. Do you notice that?
Posted by: Jessica Y at October 16, 2005 01:39 PM