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 …

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 …

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 reasons for documenting gestures and suggestions for how to go about it, are
enumerated in this article. Using gestures, the hand and arm movements speakers make …

Discourse cohesion is viewed from the perspective of a speech/gesture synthesis. Based on
narrative and conversational data, we present cross‐cultural evidence of cohesive elements …

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

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 …

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 …

Conversational facial gestures fit Kendon's (2004) specifications of the functions of hand
gestures. We illustrate how facial gestures in dialogue, like hand gestures, convey …