He was invited, officials said, as a gesture to his role in creating a democratic Russia and to stress continuity of leadership.
Beckham was widely expected to be included, but Pearce has shown he is not willing to pick England's iconic sporting figure out of sentiment or as a gesture of thanks for his role in bringing the Games to London.
In a gesture intended to highlight the unique role the 19th- century author has played in Britain's cultural heritage, Hunt has tailored his choices to the characters and ministerial roles of his colleagues.
The discussions were held around a U-shaped table in the living room of the ambassador's residence, a Flemish-style country estate that was built in 1963 for Jean Michiels, a chocolatier, and later sold to the United States at a discount as a gesture of gratitude for the American role in World War II.
This means that meaningful gestures have an important role in contextual communication, regardless of the purpose they serve for the speaker: a gesture being intended communicatively and being understood communicatively are two separate entities (de Ruiter, 2000).
Gesture plays a role in maintaining or recalling visual imagery, simulating action, and representing the speaker's nonverbal thoughts (for a review, see Hostetter & Alibali, 2008).
The existence of a modality-independent communication system in the left cerebral hemisphere has been interpreted within a framework about language origins and has led some researchers to assign gestures a key role in the evolution of communication and hemispheric specialization (e.g., Corballis 2003; Vauclair and Cochet 2013).
However, previous research which included other conditions to pull apart gesture's role in attention (using yellow highlighting on a white board while the instructor spoke; Bem et al. 2012) or using non-imagistic gestures with speech (Koumoustakis et al., 2013) showed that speech with gesture was significantly better for learning than highlighting or gesture movement with no meaning.
The current study extends previous research on gesture's role in instruction to young adults' learning of a commonly taught statistical concept, ANOVA.
