SubjectsLinguistics / Gesture Studies
Journal
ISSN 1568-1475 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9773
Book series
The Making of Multi-Unit Turns: A spring-loaded door
Rod Gardner, Joe Blythe, Ilana Mushin, Lesley Stirling, Josua Dahmen, Caroline de Dear and Francesco Possemato
The Making of Multi-Unit Turns is the first book-length treatment to comprehensively describe extended turns produced by a single speaker. It draws on multiparty everyday conversations in English, using the methods of Conversation Analysis. It brings together the currently scattered literature on… read more[Studies in Language and Social Interaction, 38] 2025. xix, 378 pp.
Beyond Disfluency: The interplay of speech, gesture, and interaction
Loulou Kosmala
This book pioneers a tridimensional approach to (dis)fluency, evaluating fluency across three different dimensions, mainly speech, gesture, and interaction. Drawing from an extensive video dataset covering different languages and speech genres in French and English, the present research goes beyond… read more[Advances in Interaction Studies, 11] 2024. xii, 264 pp.
Multimodal Im/politeness: Signed, spoken, written
Edited by Andreas H. Jucker, Iris Hübscher and Lucien Brown
Politeness and impoliteness are not just expressed by words. People communicate polite and impolite attitudes towards each other through their intonation, tone of voice, their facial expressions, their gestures, the positioning of their bodies towards each other, and so on. This volume brings… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 333] 2023. vii, 360 pp.
Italian Sign Language from a Cognitive and Socio-semiotic Perspective: Implications for a general language theory
Virginia Volterra, Maria Roccaforte, Alessio Di Renzo and Sabina Fontana
This volume reveals new insights on the faculty of language. By proposing a new approach in the analysis and description of Italian Sign Language (LIS), that can be extended also to other sign languages, this book also enlightens some aspects of spoken languages, which were often overlooked in the… read more[Gesture Studies, 9] 2022. vi, 220 pp.
Multimodal Performance and Interaction in Focus Groups
Kristin Enola Gilbert and Gregory Matoesian
Focus group interviews have seen explosive growth in recent years. They provide evaluations of social science, educational, and marketing projects by soliciting opinions from a number of participants on a given topic. However, there is more to the focus group than soliciting mere opinions. Moving… read more[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 90] 2021. xi, 190 pp.
Recurrent Gestures
Edited by Simon Harrison, Silva H. Ladewig and Jana Bressem
Special issue of Gesture 20:2 (2021) v, 177 pp.
Deafness, Gesture and Sign Language in the 18th Century French Philosophy
Josef Fulka
The book represents a historical overview of the way the topic of gesture and sign language has been treated in the 18th century French philosophy. The texts treated are grouped into several categories based on the view they present of deafness and gesture. While some of those texts obviously view… read more[Gesture Studies, 8] 2020. vii, 166 pp.
Anthropology of Gesture
Edited by Heather Brookes and Olivier Le Guen
Special issue of Gesture 18:2/3 (2019) vi, 282 pp.
Aspectuality across Languages: Event construal in speech and gesture
Edited by Alan Cienki and Olga K. Iriskhanova
The book provides a nuanced, multimodal perspective on how people express events via certain grammatical forms of verbs in speech and certain qualities of movement in manual gestures. The volume is the outcome of an international project that involved three teams: one each from France, Germany, and… read more[Human Cognitive Processing, 62] 2018. xviii, 221 pp.
Time in Embodied Interaction: Synchronicity and sequentiality of multimodal resources
Edited by Arnulf Deppermann and Jürgen Streeck
This is the first book dedicated to the study of the complexities that arise in embodied interaction from the multiplicity of time-scales on which its component processes unfold. It shows in microscopic detail how people synchronize and sequence modal resources such as talk, gaze, gesture, and… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 293] 2018. vi, 354 pp.
Why Gesture?: How the hands function in speaking, thinking and communicating
Edited by Ruth Breckinridge Church, Martha W. Alibali and Spencer D. Kelly
Co-speech gestures are ubiquitous: when people speak, they almost always produce gestures. Gestures reflect content in the mind of the speaker, often under the radar and frequently using rich mental images that complement speech. What are gestures doing? Why do we use them? This book is the first… read more[Gesture Studies, 7] 2017. vii, 433 pp.
Where do nouns come from?
Edited by John B. Haviland
The noun is an apparent cross-linguistic universal; nouns are central targets of language acquisition; they are frequently prototypical exemplars of Saussurian arbitrariness. This volume considers nouns in sign languages and in the evanescent performances of homesigners (and gesturers), which… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 70] 2015. v, 140 pp.
From Gesture in Conversation to Visible Action as Utterance: Essays in honor of Adam Kendon
Edited by Mandana Seyfeddinipur and Marianne Gullberg
Language use is fundamentally multimodal. Speakers use their hands to point to locations, to represent content and to comment on ongoing talk; they position their bodies to show their orientation and stance in interaction; they use facial displays to comment on what is being said; and they engage… read more[Not in series, 188] 2014. ix, 379 pp.
Moving Imagination: Explorations of gesture and inner movement
Edited by Helena De Preester
This volume brings together contributions by philosophers, art historians and artists who discuss, interpret and analyse the moving and gesturing body in the arts. Broadly inspired by phenomenology, and taking into account insights from cognitive science, the contribution of the motor body in… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 89] 2013. vi, 320 pp.
Nonmanuals in Sign Language
Edited by Annika Herrmann and Markus Steinbach
In addition to the hands, sign languages make extensive use of nonmanual articulators such as the body, head, and face to convey linguistic information. This collected volume focuses on the forms and functions of nonmanuals in sign languages. The articles discuss various aspects of specific… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 53] 2013. v, 197 pp.
Body Memory, Metaphor and Movement
Edited by Sabine C. Koch, Thomas Fuchs, Michela Summa and Cornelia Müller
Body Memory, Metaphor and Movement is an interdisciplinary volume with contributions from philosophers, cognitive scientists, and movement therapists. Part one provides the phenomenologically grounded definition of body memory with its different typologies. Part two follows the aim to integrate… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 84] 2012. vii, 468 pp.
Developments in Primate Gesture Research
Edited by Simone Pika and Katja Liebal
The book is a themed, mutually referenced collection of articles from a very high-powered set of authors based on the workshop on “Current developments in non-human primate gesture research”, which was held in July 2010 at the European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany. The motivation… read more[Gesture Studies, 6] 2012. xiii, 256 pp.
Gesture and Multimodal Development
Edited by Jean-Marc Colletta and Michèle Guidetti
We gesture while we talk and children use gestures prior to words to communicate during the first year. Later, as words become the preferred form of communication, children continue to gesture to reinforce or extend the spoken messages or even to replace them. This volume, originally published as a… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 39] 2012. xii, 223 pp.
Becoming Human: From pointing gestures to syntax
Teresa Bejarano
What do the pointing gesture, the imitation of new complex motor patterns, the evocation of absent objects and the grasping of others’ false beliefs all have in common? Apart from being (one way or other) involved in the language, they all would share a demanding requirement – a second mental… read more[Advances in Consciousness Research, 81] 2011. xvii, 402 pp.
Elements of Meaning in Gesture
Geneviève Calbris
Summarizing her pioneering work on the semiotic analysis of gestures in conversational settings, Geneviève Calbris offers a comprehensive account of her unique perspective on the relationship between gesture, speech, and thought. She highlights the various functions of gesture and especially shows… read more[Gesture Studies, 5] 2011. xx, 378 pp.
Integrating Gestures: The interdisciplinary nature of gesture
Edited by Gale Stam and Mika Ishino
Gestures are ubiquitous and natural in our everyday life. They convey information about culture, discourse, thought, intentionality, emotion, intersubjectivity, cognition, and first and second language acquisition. Additionally, they are used by non-human primates to communicate with their peers… read more
Primate Communication and Human Language: Vocalisation, gestures, imitation and deixis in humans and non-humans
Edited by Anne Vilain, Jean-Luc Schwartz, Christian Abry and Jacques Vauclair
After a long period where it has been conceived as iconoclastic and almost forbidden, the question of language origins is now at the centre of a rich debate, confronting acute proposals and original theories. Most importantly, the debate is nourished by a large set of experimental data from… read more[Advances in Interaction Studies, 1] 2011. vi, 239 pp.
Transcribing Talk and Interaction: Issues in the representation of communication data
Christopher Jenks
Interest in transcript-based research has grown significantly in recent years. Alongside this growth has been an increase in awareness of the empirical utility of naturalistic research on language use in interaction. However, a quick scan of the literature reveals that very few transcription books… read more[Not in series, 165] 2011. xi, 120 pp.
Body, Language and Meaning in Conflict Situations: A semiotic analysis of gesture-word mismatches in Israeli-Jewish and Arab discourse
Orit Sônia Waisman
This original research applies semiotics to linguistic and non-linguistic segments in a text in search of potential correlations between them. The resultant mapping is applied to cases of gesture-word mismatches that are evident in conflict situations. The current study adopts the word systems… read more[Studies in Functional and Structural Linguistics, 62] 2010. xi, 191 pp.
Gesture and Multimodal Development
Edited by Jean-Marc Colletta and Michèle Guidetti
Special issue of Gesture 10:2/3 (2010) vi, 232 pp.
Gestures in Language Development
Edited by Marianne Gullberg and Kees de Bot
Gestures are prevalent in communication and tightly linked to language and speech. As such they can shed important light on issues of language development across the lifespan. This volume, originally published as a Special Issue of Gesture Volume 8:2 (2008), brings together studies from different… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 28] 2010. viii, 139 pp.
Gesturecraft: The manu-facture of meaning
Jürgen Streeck
The craft of gesture is part of the practical equipment with which we inhabit and understand the world together. Drawing on micro-ethnographic research in diverse interaction settings, this book explores the communicative ecologies in which hand-gestures appear: illuminating the world around us,… read more[Gesture Studies, 2] 2009. xii, 235 pp.
Dimensions of gesture
Edited by Adam Kendon † and Tommaso Russo Cardona
Special issue of Gesture 8:1 (2008) 153 pp.
Gestures in language development
Edited by Marianne Gullberg and Kees de Bot
Special issue of Gesture 8:2 (2008) 145 pp.
Metaphor and Gesture
Edited by Alan Cienki and Cornelia Müller
This volume is the first to offer an overview on metaphor and gesture — a new multi-disciplinary area of research. Scholars of metaphor have been paying increasing attention to spontaneous gestures with speech; meanwhile, researchers in gesture studies have been focussing on the abstract ideas… read more[Gesture Studies, 3] 2008. ix, 306 pp.
Gestural Communication in Nonhuman and Human Primates
Edited by Katja Liebal, Cornelia Müller and Simone Pika
Research into gestures represents a multifaceted field comprising a wide range of disciplines and research topics, varying methods and approaches, and even different species such as humans, apes and monkeys. The aim of this volume (originally published as a Special Issue of Gesture 5:1/2 (2005)) is… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 10] 2007. xiv, 284 pp.
Gesture and the Dynamic Dimension of Language: Essays in honor of David McNeill
Edited by Susan D. Duncan, Justine Cassell and Elena T. Levy
Each of the 21 chapters in this volume reflects a view of language as a dynamic phenomenon with emergent structure, and in each, gesture is approached as part of language, not an adjunct to it. In this, all of the authors have been influenced by David McNeill's methods for studying natural… read more[Gesture Studies, 1] 2007. vi, 328 pp.