During communication, speakers commonly rotate their forearms so that their palms turn
upward. Yet despite more than a century of observations of such palm-up gestures, their …

Stance-taking, the public act of positioning oneself toward objects, people or states of affairs,
has been studied in many fields of research. Recently, its multimodal realization in …

This paper examines the evolving genre of university lectures. It focuses on synchronous
online lectures. The aim of the study is to shed some light on how interaction between …

The Multimodal Performance of Conversational Humor Page 1 The Multimodal Performance of
Conversational Humor Figurative Thought and Language 13 John Benjamins Publishing …

This paper investigates the body's role in grammar in argument sequences. Drawing from a
database of public disputes on language use, we document the work of the palm-up gesture …

At the dawn of anthropology, gesture was widely considered a “universal language”. In the
20th century, however, this framing fell out of favor as anthropologists rejected universalism …

Research on multimodal interaction has shown that simultaneity of embodied behavior and
talk is constitutive for social action. In this study, we demonstrate different temporal …

Performing and understanding conversational irony requires a complex management of
multiple viewpoints. To communicate and negotiate these intricate viewpoint shifts, speakers …

Most corpora tacitly subscribe to a speech-only view filtering out anything that is not a
'word'and transcribing the spoken language merely orthographically despite the fact that the …

In this paper I examine the use of the 'rotated palms' gesture family among speakers of
Syuba (Tibeto-Burman, Nepal), as recorded in a video corpus documenting this language. In …