Gesture Studies

Editor

Jürgen Streeck | The University of Texas at Austin

Founding Editor

Adam Kendon † | University College London

Gesture Studies aims to publish book-length publications on all aspects of gesture. Topics may include, but are by not limited to: the relationship between gesture and speech; the role gesture may play in communication in all the circumstances of social interaction, including conversations, the work-place or instructional settings; gesture and cognition; the development of gesture in children; the place of gesture in first and second language acquisition; the processes by which spontaneously created gestures may become transformed into codified forms; the documentation and discussion of vocabularies of ‘quotable’ or ‘emblematic’ gestures; the relationship between gesture and sign; studies of gesture systems or sign languages such as those that have developed in factories, religious communities or in tribal societies; the role of gesture in ritual interactions of all kinds, such as greetings, religious, civic or legal rituals; gestures compared cross-culturally; gestures in primate social interaction; biological studies of gesture, including discussions of the place of gesture in language origins theory; gesture in multi-modal human-machine interaction; historical studies of gesture; and studies in the history of gesture studies, including discussions of gesture in the theatre or as a part of rhetoric.
Volumes in this peer-reviewed series may be collected volumes, monographs, or reference books, in the English language.

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ISSN: 1874-6829

https://doi.org/10.1075/gs

Volumes

9	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 2022. vi, 220 pp.
8	Deafness, Gesture and Sign Language in the 18th Century French Philosophy Josef Fulka 2020. vii, 166 pp.
7	Why Gesture?: How the hands function in speaking, thinking and communicating Edited by Ruth Breckinridge Church, Martha W. Alibali and Spencer D. Kelly 2017. vii, 433 pp.
6	Developments in Primate Gesture Research Edited by Simone Pika and Katja Liebal 2012. xiii, 256 pp.
5	Elements of Meaning in Gesture Geneviève Calbris 2011. xx, 378 pp.
4	Integrating Gestures: The interdisciplinary nature of gesture Edited by Gale Stam and Mika Ishino 2011. viii, 372 pp.
3	Metaphor and Gesture Edited by Alan Cienki and Cornelia Müller 2008. ix, 306 pp.
2	Gesturecraft: The manu-facture of meaning Jürgen Streeck 2009. xii, 235 pp.
1	Gesture and the Dynamic Dimension of Language: Essays in honor of David McNeill Edited by Susan D. Duncan, Justine Cassell and Elena T. Levy 2007. vi, 328 pp.

Board

Editorial Board

Martha W. Alibali | University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA

Josep Call | University of St Andrews, UK

Vito Evola | Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal

Josef Fulka | Charles University, Czech Republic

Jennifer Green | University of Melbourne, Australia

Marianne Gullberg | Lund University, Sweden

Simon Harrison | City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Judith Holler | Radboud Universiteit, Netherlands

Kobin H. Kendrick | University of York, UK

Olivier Le Guen | Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropologia Social, Mexico

Michael Lempert | University of Michigan, USA

Simone Pika | Universität Osnabrück, Germany

Emily Shaw | Gallaudet University, USA

Submission

The series welcomes submissions. Book proposals, preferably structured along the lines indicated in our Guidelines for Book Proposals, can be sent to the series editor, Adam Kendon (adamkdca.net)

Subjects

Communication Studies

Linguistics

Cognition and language

Gesture Studies

Psychology

Cognitive psychology