The main ways of telling a story — as a chronicle of events, or as a fable focused on a moral of why it happened — may determine your likelihood of using hand gestures
But if you watch someone tell a story, odds are it will be punctuated by gestures, simple little physical actions and cues by which the narrator guides the audience.
New research by Nicoladis published in the journal Language and Cognition suggests this variation might be more than just a simple question of style. It might reflect a deeper psychological insight, not just about how people use their hands, but how they construct stories in their minds. This reflects two main ways of telling a story, as a summarized chronicle of how it happened, or as a fable focused on the moral of why it happened.
This is the factor that strongly varies among cultures, Nicoladis concluded. Her research showed that native speakers of the Asian languages Hindi and Mandarin showed a clear preference for fables, as compared to the chronological summaries of native French or Spanish speakers.
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