It Really Is Body Language
A recent article on the Lingformant blog points to some compelling new research on how we parse gestures:
Your ability to make sense of Groucho’s words and Harpo’s pantomimes in an old Marx Brothers movie takes place in the same regions of your brain, says new research funded by the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), one of the National Institutes of Health.
You can read the synopsis at Words, Gestures Are Translated by Same Brain Regions.