We report a large-scale, quantitative investigation of manual gestures that speakers perform
when speaking metaphorically about numerical quantities. We used the TV News Archive …

How people communicate about motion events and how this is shaped by language
typology are mostly studied with a focus on linguistic encoding in speech. Yet, human …

Psycholinguistic evidence shows that spatial domains are automatically activated when
processing temporal expressions. Speakers conceptualize time as a straight line deployed …

As semiotic beings, we build our understanding of the discourses we participate in, and
more generally of the world around us, by integrating signs in different modalities into …

This study investigated the spontaneous co-speech gestures produced by speakers who
were talking about the concepts of addition and subtraction in a television news setting. We …

There is a distinction between languages that use the duration is length metaphor, like
English (eg, long time), and languages like Spanish that conceptualise time using the …

Comprehending communication is dependent on analyzing the different modalities of
conversation, including audio, visual, and others. This is a natural process for humans, but in …

This study investigates how typological and metaphorical construal differences may affect
the use and frequency of temporal expressions in English and Spanish. More precisely, we …

This study investigates whether there is a relation between the semantics of linguistic
expressions that indicate temporal distance and the spatial properties of their co-speech …

We present a study examining broadcast British Sign Language (BSL) interpreted weather
forecasts. These are filmed against a green screen with a superimposed composite image …