Gesture and speech jointly enact–and regulate–communicative interaction. Often they share
in representing communicative content; for example, a speaker saying “we drove all around …

Using as data videotapes of archaeologists excavating a prehistoric village this chapter
investigate gestures that cannot be defined completely within the skin of the actor (s), but …

In" Gesture as Comqzunication I"(Streeck, 1993), I described procedures by which speakers
secure the communicative significance of their gestures. For example, they orient to their …

Humans communicate using language, but they also communicate using gesture–
spontaneous movements of the hands and body that universally accompany speech …

As a field of study, gesture has become energized in recent years. There is now an
organization (International Society for Gesture Studies) and a journal (GESTURE, founding …

Most research focuses function of gesture independent of its link to the speech it
accompanies and the coexpressive functions it has together with speech. This chapter …

Human communicators move. Heads tilt, eyebrows raise, hands wave, fingers point, bodies
lean, faces contort, and all synchronize with vibration of vocal chords and the opening and …

The question as to why we move our hands and arms while we speak has intrigued many
researchers in the past, and it still does. However, there has been much debate concerning …

Following a sustained empirical enquiry into the nature and organization of human gesture,
the psychologist Susan Goldin-Meadow (2003) asks an intriguing question: Is gesture …

The four articles that appear in this issue deal with the question of whether, and how,
recipiedts of the utterances of others are affected in their understanding by the gestures that …