This book examines emblems (or emblematic gestures) from a pragmatic view, that is to say,
as autonomous gestures that fulfill communicative functions, embody illocutionary values …

Gricean Circle, 84 Gricean Maxims, 353, 373 grounding biological, 3, 349, 354, 358, 372,
373 cognitive, 109, 117 hedge attitudinal hedge, 326, 330, 338, 341 epistemic hedge, 323 …

This paper describes the organisation of kinesic ensembles associated with negation in
speech through a qualitative study of negative utterances identified in face-to-face …

The present study examines various uses of the gestures that are usually associated with
explicitly expressed negation (overt negation) in spoken Israeli Hebrew. The analysis of …

Based on an analysis accounting for the whole body as a possible articulator in the
depiction of actions, this chapter argues for an expansion of the notion of 'character …

In this paper, we present novel observations indicating that the syntax of clause negation in
French constrains how speakers perform a specific gestural form associated with negation …

The present study focuses on eye closure (EC) as a communicative facial gesture in Israeli
Hebrew media talk and pays particular attention to its coordination with co-expressive …

Movement scientists have proposed to ground the relation between prosody and gesture in
'vocal-entangled gestures', defined as biomechanical linkages between upper limb …

This dissertation examines the capacity of interactive gesture to contribute to discourse
structure independent of accompanying speech. The close relationship between gesture …

The present paper examines how English native speakers produce scopally ambiguous
sentences and how they make use of gestures and prosody for disambiguation. As a case in …