The natural ecology of human language is face-to-face interaction comprising the exchange
of a plethora of multimodal signals. Trying to understand the psycholinguistic processing of …

What do we study when we study language? Our theories of language, and particularly our
theories of the cognitive and neural underpinnings of language, have developed primarily …

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 …

This paper discusses how a particular type of recurrent gesture, the holding away gesture,
highlights and structures spoken utterances in German and Savosavo, a Papuan language …

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 …

This article examines the formal and functional features of a recurring 'away'gesture in
Syuba (Tibeto-Burman, Nepal). The formal properties of this gesture include a pronation of …

In March 2022, the NBA basketball player Taurean Prince was fined $15,000 (USD) for
extending a finger. He had presented the “bird”—a raised middle digit—to another player …

When people talk about kinship systems, they often use co‐speech gestures and other
representations to elaborate. This paper investigates such polysemiotic (spoken, gestured …

The last decades have seen major advances in the study of gestures both in humans and
non-human primates. In this paper, we seriously examine the idea that there may be …

The inner workings of recurrent gestures can now be distilled from almost three decades'
worth of fine-grained studies into gesture form variants, kinesic organization with speech …