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Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , VI. Gestures across cultures -- , 73. Gestures in South Africa -- , 74. Gestures in the Sub-Saharan region -- , 75. Gestures in West Africa: Left hand taboo in Ghana -- , 76. Gestures in West Africa: Wolof -- , 77. Gestures in South America: Spanish and Portuguese -- , 78. Gestures in South American indigenous cultures -- , 79. Gestures in native South America: Ancash Quechua -- , 80. Gestures in native Mexico and Central America: The Mayan cultures -- , 81. Gestures in native Northern America: Bimodal talk in Arapaho -- , 82. Gestures in Southwest India: Dance theater -- , 83. Gestures in China: Universal and culturally specific characteristics -- , 84. Gestures and body language in Southern Europe: Italy -- , 85. Gestures in Southern Europe: Children's pragmatic gestures in Italy -- , 86. Gestures in Southwest Europe: Portugal -- , 87. Gestures in Southwest Europe: Catalonia -- , 88. Gestures in Western Europe: France -- , 89. Gestures in Northern Europe: Children's gestures in Sweden -- , 90. Gestures in Northeast Europe: Russia, Poland, Croatia, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia -- , VII. Body movements - Functions, contexts, and interactions -- , 91. Body posture and movement in interaction: Participation management -- , 92. Proxemics and axial orientation -- , 93. The role of gaze in conversational interaction -- , 94. Categories and functions of posture, gaze, face, and body movements -- , 95. Facial expression and social interaction -- , 96. Gestures, postures, gaze, and movement in work and organization -- , 97. Gesture and conversational units -- , 98. The interactive design of gestures -- , 99. Gestures and mimicry -- , 100. Gesture and prosody -- , 101. Structuring discourse: Observations on prosody and gesture in Russian TV-discourse -- , 102. Body movements in political discourse -- , 103. Gestures in industrial settings -- , 104. Identification and interpretation of co-speech gestures in technical systems -- , 105. Gestures, postures, gaze, and other body movements in the 2nd language classroom interaction -- , 106. Bodily interaction (of interpreters) in music performance -- , 107. Gestures in the theater -- , 108. Contemporary classification systems -- , 109. Co-speech gestures: Structures and functions -- , 110. Emblems or quotable gestures: Structures, categories, and functions -- , 111. Semantics and pragmatics of symbolic gestures -- , 112. Head shakes: Variation in form, function, and cultural distribution of a head movement related to "no" -- , 113. Gestures in dictionaries: Physical contact gestures -- , 114. Ring-gestures across cultures and times: Dimensions of variation -- , 115. Gesture and taboo: A cross-cultural perspective -- , VIII. Gesture and language -- , 116. Pragmatic gestures -- , 117. Pragmatic and metaphoric - combining functional with cognitive approaches in the analysis of the "brushing aside gesture" -- , 118. Recurrent gestures -- , 119. A repertoire of German recurrent gestures with pragmatic functions -- , 120. The family of Away gestures: Negation, refusal, and negative assessment -- , 121. The cyclic gesture -- , 122. Kinesthemes: Morphological complexity in co-speech gestures -- , 123. Gesture families and gestural fields -- , 124. Repetitions in gesture -- , 125. Syntactic complexity in co-speech gestures: Constituency and recursion -- , 126. Creating multimodal utterances: The linear integration of gestures into speech -- , 127. Gestures and location in English -- , 128. Gestural modes of representation as techniques of depiction -- , 129. Levels of abstraction -- , 130. Gestures and iconicity -- , 131. Iconic and representational gestures -- , 132. Gestures and metonymy -- , 133. Ways of viewing metaphor in gesture -- , 134. The conceptualization of time in gesture -- , 135. Between reference and meaning: Object-related and interpretant-related gestures in face-to-face interaction -- , 136. Deixis, gesture, and embodiment from a linguistic point of view -- , 137. Pointing by hand: Types of reference and their influence on gestural form -- , IX. Embodiment - The body and its role for cognition, emotion, and communication -- , 138. Gestures and cognitive development -- , 139. Embodied cognition and word acquisition: The challenge of abstract words -- , 140. The blossoming of children's multimodal skills from 1 to 4 years old -- , 141. Gestures before language: The use of baby signs -- , 142. Gestures and second language acquisition -- , 143. Further changes in L2 Thinking for Speaking? -- , 144. Gesture and the neuropsychology of language -- , 145. Gestures in aphasia -- , 146. Body movements and mental illness: Alterations of movement behavior associated with eating disorders, schizophrenia, and depression -- , 147. Bodily communication and deception -- , 148. Multimodal discourse comprehension -- , 149. Cognitive operations that take place in the Perception-Action Loop -- , 150. Gesture and working memory -- , 151. Body movements in robotics -- , 152. Gestures, postures, gaze, and movements in computer science: Embodied agents -- , 153. The psychology of gestures and gesture-like movements in non-human primates -- , 154. An evolutionary perspective on facial behavior -- , 155. On the consequences of living without facial expression -- , 156. Multimodal forms of expressing emotions: The case of interjections -- , 157. Some issues in the semiotics of gesture: The perspective of comparative semiotics -- , 158. Embodied meaning, inside and out: The coupling of gesture and mental simulation -- , 159. Embodied and distributed contexts of collaborative remembering -- , 160. Living bodies: Co-enacting experience -- , 161. Aproprioception, gesture, and cognitive being -- , 162. Embodying audio-visual media: Concepts and transdisciplinary perspectives -- , 163. Cinematic communication and embodiment -- , 164. The discovery of the acting body -- , 165. Expressive movements in audio-visual media: Modulating affective experience -- , 166. Expressive movement and metaphoric meaning making in audio-visual media -- , 167. Gesture as interactive expressive movement: Inter-affectivity in face-to-face communication -- , X. Sign language - Visible body movements as language -- , 168. Linguistic structures in a manual modality: Phonology and morphology in sign languages -- , 169. The grammaticalization of gestures in sign languages -- , 170. Nonmanual gestures in sign languages -- , 171. Enactment as a (signed) language communicative strategy -- , 172. Gestures in sign language -- , Appendix: Organizations, links, reference publications, and periodicals -- , Indices , Issued also in print. , Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. , In English.

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