This landmark study examines the role of gestures in relation to speech and thought.
Leading scholars, including psychologists, linguists and anthropologists, offer state-of-the …

Although this volume focuses primarily on gesture, it is important to acknowledge that
gesture is a part of nonverbal communication as a whole and has been studied as such (see …

It seems self-evident that, if we want to obtain or evaluate evidence about the communicative
value of conversational gestures, we will first have to clarify what we mean by gesture and …

There is a growing awareness that language and gesture are deeply intertwined in the
spontaneous expression of adults. Although some research suggests that children use …

Why do people gesture while speaking? What role does this activity play in verbal
exchanges? Which kind of relationship does it exhibit between the verbal and the gestural …

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

• What does the enrichment of language with imagery show us of language and thought? In
recent years the rise of sign language as a topic of interest in psychology and linguistics has …

Gesture, or visible bodily action that is seen as intimately involved in the activity of speaking,
has long fascinated scholars and laymen alike. Written by a leading authority on the subject …

Children who produce one word at a time often use gesture to supplement their speech,
turning a single word into an utterance that conveys a sentence-like meaning ('eat'+ point at …

The title of this special issue, Gesture and SLA: Toward an Integrated Approach, stems in
large part from the idea known as integrationism, principally set forth by Harris (2003, 2005) …