Raising the ante of communication: Evidence for enhanced gesture use in high stakes situations

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Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 579-593

  Kelly, Spencer ^a   Byrne, Kelly ^a   Holler, Judith ^b,c  

^a Assistant Professor in the University Libraries   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Communication; Gesture; Language; Nonverbal; Pragmatics; Social; Speech

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; STUDENTS;

COLLEGE STUDENTS; HAND GESTURE; PERCEIVED RELEVANCES; SOCIAL COMMUNICATIONS;

SPEECH COMMUNICATION;

EID: 84870937537     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20782489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/info2040579     Document Type: Article

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