The Handbook is a unique work of reference to the leading ideas, debates, topics,
approaches and methodologies in forensic linguistics and language and the law. It …

Drawing upon corpus analyses of recurrent gestures, a pragmatics perspective on gestural
meaning and conventionalization will be developed. Gesture pragmatics is considered in …

In this paper we describe the cognitive model that governs the forms and uses of the cyclic
gesture, recurrent in a corpus of spontaneous German conversations. The gesture shows a …

This paper offers an analysis of a multimodal pattern of negative assessment, which takes as
the starting point a particular recurrent gesture: the Throwing Away gesture. Recurrent …

As an explicitly usage-based model of language structure (Barlow & Kemmer, 2000),
cognitive grammar draws on the notion of 'usage events' of language as the starting point …

While many metaphor scholars nowadays might find it natural, and even expected, that there
would be a chapter in a volume such as this concerning the analysis of metaphor in gesture …

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 shows that an analysis of gestures based on the four parameters hand shape,
orientation, movement, and position in gesture space, introduced for the notation of sign …

The study of language and law has seen explosive growth in the past twenty-five years.
Research on police interrogations, trial examination, jury deliberation, plea bargains, same …