We present a formal analysis of iconic coverbal gesture. Our model describes the
incomplete meaning of gesture that's derivable from its form, and the pragmatic reasoning …

The gestures that speakers use in tandem with speech include not only conventionalized
actions with identifiable meanings (so-called narrow gloss gestures or emblems) but also …

Do speakers intend their gestures to communicate? Central as this question is to the study of
gesture, researchers cannot seem to agree on the answer. According to one common …

Gesture is typically produced with speech, forming a fully integrated system with that speech.
However, under unusual circumstances, gesture can be produced completely on its own …

In face-to-face conversation, communicators orchestrate multimodal contributions that
meaningfully combine the linguistic resources of spoken language and the visuo-spatial …

Despite various theories about the exact origin of gestures in speech production,
researchers generally accept that gesture and speech constitute the product of a single unit …

As semanticists, we are interested in how meaning works in natural language. However,
when we have an utterance, different parts of its meaning will behave differently with respect …

Current formal semantic theories aim at capturing gestural semantic contributions and in
particular their interplay with the semantics that stems from cooccurring speech. To grasp …

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 …

Gesture-first theories of language propose the transparent intelligibility of deictic and iconic
gestures. The gestures of a man with a three-word vocabulary are used to investigate …