Homesigners are deaf individuals who have grown up in the absence of a conventional
language model and have co-created a unique communication system with their hearing …

Language documentation as a subfield of linguistics has arisen over the past roughly two
and a half decades more or less simultaneously with the widespread availability of …

This study explores the use of hand points in competitive epistemic and speakership
environments in Mandarin-speaking conversation. It examines incoming speakers' points at …

It has been suggested that the gestural accuracy used by speakers of Australian Aboriginal
languages like Guugu Yimidhirr and Arrernte to indicate directions and represent …

Human communication is multimodal. When people gather together, they talk, position their
bodies, shape their hands, contort their faces, direct their gaze, inter alia, in the course of …

It can be difficult for external analysts without knowledge of the local environment to
understand what conversationalists are talking about when they point to locations outside …

Participation in conversation is dynamic. People continuously negotiate their involvement
and interact the organization of participation into being using multiple communicative …