In an attempt to explore the relationships between words and gestures in comics, the terms
'gesticulary','ingesticulatory'and 'pergesticulary act'are proposed and employed. A study is …

Speakers tend to produce very similar-looking gestures in very similar discourse contexts.
This chapter probes the sources of such uniformity with reference to a particular gesture …

Respondents, who had either seen or not seen a sample of the iconic gestures that
encoders produce when narrating a story, answered questions about the original story and it …

David McNeill has claimed that,“[u] tterances possess two sides, only one of which is
speech; the other is imagery, actional and visuo-spatial.” One implication of this claim is that …

Many authors of comics have metaphorically compared their writing process to that of
language. Jack 'King'Kirby, one of the most influential artists of mainstream American …

It has been hypothesized that the iconic hand gestures that accompany talk communicate
important semantic information. This research tests whether some gestures, in the absence …

Speed lines, movement lines and emotion-enhancing flourishes (“pictorial runes”) may
contribute, marginally or substantially, to the potential meanings to be inferred from a comic's …

An experiment was conducted to assess whether image schemas could be used reliably to
characterize spontaneous gestures that co-occur with speech. Two types of gestures were …

When people talk, they frequently make movements of their arms and hands, some of which
appear connected with the content of the speech and are termed iconic gestures. Critical to …

Comics is cinema without motion or sound. Like films, comics tell stories through a sequence
of images. Likewise, they incorporate sound effects, spoken dialogue, and voice-over …