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Gesture

Volume 25, Issue 1 (2026)

Expected November 2026. ca. 125 pp.

Publishing status: In production

© John Benjamins Publishing Company

Table of Contents

This is a provisional table of contents, and subject to changes.

Arabic speakers gesture more than English speakers in a storytelling task Elena Nicoladis and Yasmine Boulos	1–17
Different embodied motivations converge in a single recurrent gesture: The Two-Handed-Alternation-Sagittal (2HAS) gesture Daiya Kuryu, Jordan Zlatev and Harry Polfeldt	18–50
How is multimodality used in early communication? Relationships with pragmatic function, referential-specificity level, and grammar María Fernández-Flecha, María Blume and Andrea Junyent	51–80
The silent order: Gestural emblems and symbolic meaning-making in Jordanian street coffee shops Muna Alalya, Aseel Zibin and Abdel Rahman Mitib Altakhaineh	81–110

Subjects and metadata

Main BIC Subject

CF: Linguistics

Main BISAC Subject

LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General