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Handbook of Pragmatics: 22nd Annual Installment
Edited by Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren
[Handbook of Pragmatics 22] 2019
► pp. 1–30

Gesture research

Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.The attraction of gestures
  • 3.Contemporary research on gesture
  • 4.Gestures’ environments
  • 5.Indexical gesture
  • 6.Depiction
  • 7.Conceptual action
  • 8.Gesturing the search for a word: Two perspectives
  • 9.Pragmatics
  • 10.The view from cognitive linguistics
  • 11.An anthropological perspective on gesture
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 23 December 2019
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