The first gestures that children produce intentionally to communicate with others, make
sense of the world around them, and control their behavior are ostensive gestures of …

This paper is about re-thinking gesture in order to reckon with its material and haptic nature,
especially in the current multitouch technology environment. This re-thinking of gesture …

In developmental psychology pointing gestures are widely accepted as the gesture that par
excellence allows shared reference (Cyrulnik, 2002; Liszkowski, Carpenter, Striano, & …

This chapter provides an overview of current advances in multimodal corpus linguistics. It
defines what multimodal corpora are, what they can be used for, how and why they are …

This paper presents an overview of studies on automated hand gesture analysis, which is
mainly concerned with recognition and segmentation issues related to functional types and …

Maciej Karpiński. The Boundaries of Language: Dealing with Paralinguistic Features.
Lingua Posnaniensis, vol. LIV (2)/2012. The Poznań Society for the Advancement of the Arts …

This chapter provides a broad overview of the state-of-the-art in standards development for
language resources, beginning with a brief historical overview to serve as context. It …

Contemporary business process modeling tools provide menu-based user interfaces for
defining and visualizing process models. Such menu-based interactions have been …

While previous studies have outlined the advantages of semiotic resources for meaning
making and relationship building, not all semiotic resources are equal in their ability to …

The present study aimed to evaluate the effects of iconic gestures on young learners'
vocabulary acquisition in L2 settings. The main purpose of the study was, therefore, to …