Cognitive linguists are increasingly extending their paradigm to include the study of
gestures. The bottom‐up, usage‐based approach in cognitive linguistics has advanced the …

Gestures are now viewed as an integral part of spoken language. But little attention has
been paid to the recipients' cognitive processes of integrating both gesture and speech. How …

Previous research has found that iconic gestures (ie, gestures that depict the actions,
motions or shapes of entities) identify referents that are also lexically specified in the co …

The semantic specificity of gesture was assessed by the ability of untrained participants to
recognize the meaning of ideational gestures in a forced-choice paradigm. Untrained …

In current discussions of gesture a dominant orientation is psychological in the sense that
gestures, at least those considered spontaneous accompaniments to speaking and …

Metaphor is an exercise in conceptual mapping: linking elements of one domain with
elements of another. For conventional metaphors, these cross-domain mappings are well …

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 …

In this paper we review a series of studies that show empirically that the lexical and syntactic
structure a speaker uses to express information influences the way iconic gestures are …

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

Abstract The fields of Cognitive Linguistics and gesture studies have begun to find each
other of great interest in recent years. The cross-recognition is making for a healthy …