Mind in Motion
Page 40
by Barbara Tversky
words, 184–186
abstraction, 142
acquisition by children, 36
for action, 184–185, 284–285
arbitrary nature of, 113
in comics, 249
denoting certainty versus uncertainty, 181
describing actions, objects, locations, or relationships, 184–185
gestures compared to, 110
literal and abstract usage, 185
mismatches with gestures, 120–121
pictures contrasting with, 249–250
pictures remembered better than, 242
remote associations among, 266
of seeing, 184
as symbols, 141
world, designing of the, 277–280, 277 (fig.)–280 (fig.)
writing, 192, 194
yawns, contagious nature of, 42
zero, 178–179