Download or read book Pragmatics, Utterance Meaning, and Representational Gesture written by Jack Wilson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-29 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Element helps understand the role of gesture in communication by answer the following questions positively: Do gestures communicate? Do people produce gestures with an intention to communicate? It uses evidence from experimental and neuroscientific studies to argue that people produce gestures because doing so improves such predictions.