Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO

Amount

$300,000.00

Award Date

7/30/2009

Administering Agency

National Science Foundation

CDFA Number

47.082

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NSF Recovery Act Reasearch Support

Description

Anyone who has had a phone conversation about how to how to change the oil in a car or how to make lasagna knows the importance of explanatory gestures for communication. Multimodal discourse involves the use of both visual (gestures) and auditory (speech