From Gesture in Conversation to Visible Action as Utterance -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- A foreword -- Introduction: From gesture in conversation to visible action as utterance -- Gaze and face -- Manual gestures - Quotable gestures and pointing -- Manual gestures - Their nature and relationship to language -- Language evolution -- Sign systems -- Child language development -- And end to the beginning -- References -- Part I. Gaze and face -- Including facial gestures in gesture-speech ensembles -- Part 1: "Ensembles of gestures and speech" -- "Facial gestures" -- "Closing off further investigation" -- "The gestured component of an utterance" -- Part 2: "There is a flexibility in the gesture-speech relationship" -- Method -- Semantic features analysis -- Qualitative results -- Quantitative results -- Discussion -- References -- Mutual gaze and recognition: Revisiting Kendon's "Gaze direction in two-person conversation" -- Introduction -- One person's gaze in dyadic conversation: A case study -- A basic gaze sequence -- A deviant case -- Mutual gaze -- Applications -- Gaze and recognition -- References -- Part II. Manual gestures - Quotable gestures and pointing -- Gesture in the communicative ecology of a South African township -- Introduction -- Vosloorus -- Gesturing in Vosloorus -- Gesture, environment and the communicative ecology -- Physical environment -- Social interactional environment -- Behavioral and cultural norms -- Historical factors -- Conclusion: Naples and Vosloorus compared -- Acknowledgements -- References -- The emblem as metaphor -- Dedication -- What is an emblem? -- Neapolitan and other emblems -- The ring: "OK" and precision -- The grappolo and the conduit -- Thumbs up, down: Good is up, bad is down -- Beams and obstacles: Palm forward and others -- Conclusion of emblems.

Where do metaphors come from? -- Orchestrating speech by metaphoric gestures -- Are actions metaphors or are metaphors actions? -- Emblematicity -- Conclusion of where do emblems come from -- Exceptions -- Fetishism and magic -- Conclusions overall -- References -- Pointing, talk, and the bodies: Reference and joint attention -- Introduction -- Pointing -- Multimodal resources in interaction -- Issues addressed in this chapter -- Pointing at initial vs. final turn position: Adjusting to the other's gaze -- Showing technical details in the car cockpit -- Introducing the referent vs. getting the attention of the recipient -- Re-arranging participant's bodies before pointing -- Pointing in direction-giving in response to an itinerary request -- Establishing a relevant interactional space before pointing and describing -- A systematic pattern -- Mobilizing bodies and monitoring others' embodied responses -- Showing places and objects within the environment during a guided visit -- Inviting to look and monitoring joint attention -- A systematic pattern -- Conclusion -- Transcript conventions -- References -- Part III. Manual gestures - their nature and relationship to language -- Gesture as "deliberate expressive movement" -- A personal note -- Forms in context: Kendon's features of manifest deliberate expressivity -- Distinguishing gestural action from other actions -- The dynamic characteristics of body motion -- Dynamic forms in context: Functions of gestures as partners of speech -- Form features and semantic themes: gesture families and contexts-of-use -- From form to meaning in context: Towards a grammar of gesture -- How forms of gestures mean: cognitive-semiotic techniques motivating depiction in gesture (and sign) -- Forms in context: Schematized actions as bases of a gesture family - the family of away gestures.

Conclusion: Gesture as deliberate expressive movement - or the emergence of linguistic structures -- Acknowledgment -- References -- On the ower limit of gesture -- What is the lower limit? -- The lower limit of gesture in a historical context -- Definitions of gesture -- Getting rid of the blind spot -- Levels of communicative explicitness -- Levels of representational complexity -- Conventionality and the lower limit -- Analysis of examples -- Example 1 -- Example 2 -- Example 3 -- Example 4 -- Example 5 -- Concluding remarks -- References -- Part IV. Language evolution -- The word according to Adam: The role of gesture in language evolution -- Introduction -- Equal partners? -- Laterality of function -- Comprehension of speech and gesture -- Did the Neanderthals speak? -- Evidence for gesture-first -- Intentionality and learning -- Manual control in apes -- The mirror system -- The argument from incredulity -- Facing facts -- An evolutionary scenario -- Conclusions -- References -- The intelligibility of gesture within a framework of co-operative action -- Introduction -- Gesture-first theories of language origins -- Chil and his resources -- Action consequences of the indeterminacy of gesture -- Co-operative action as an environment promoting the evolution of arbitrary signs -- Building action within an ecology of meaning-making practices -- Co-operative action and accumulative settings -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Part V. Sign systems -- Signs and space in Arandic sand narratives -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Sign languages of Central Australia -- 1.2 Sign-spatial strategies in sand stories -- 2. Data and methodology -- 3. Signing over sand -- 3.1 Sign lexicon -- 3.2 Sign locations -- 3.3 Anchoring signs in sand and space -- 4. Concluding remarks -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- References.

Different strokes: Gesture phrases and gesture units in a family homesign -- Introduction -- The gesture phrase -- Kendon's early sign language research -- Zinacantec Family Homesign (ZFHS) -- Applying PS grammar to parsing Z -- Problems in the definitions -- Strokes -- Co-articulation -- Junctures -- Complex multi-stroke units -- Synchronization and interactive structure -- Summary and conclusions -- References -- Gesture in all its forms: The legacy of Adam Kendon -- Introduction -- When gesture takes the place of speech to communicate -- Homesigns in deaf children born to hearing parents -- Homesigns resemble language in function -- Homesigns resemble language in form -- Homesigns are just the beginning -- Homesigns do not look like hearing speakers' gestures -- Silent gestures in hearing speakers asked not to talk -- Silent gestures display consistent word order -- Silent gestures use location to establish co-reference -- Silent gestures do not display segmentation in manner and path motion forms -- Silent gestures do not display the finger complexity patterns found in conventional sign languages -- When gesture works with speech to communicate -- Gesture becomes integrated with speech during the one-word period and predicts future linguistic mil -- Gesture continues to predict future cognitive achievements over the course of development -- Gesture not only reflects thought but can play a role in changing thought -- Conclusion -- References -- Part VI. Child language development -- The development of two pragmatic gestures of the so-called Open Hand Supine family -- Introduction -- Contexts of use of Palm Presentation and Palm with a Lateral Movement gestures in adults -- Contexts of use of Palm Presentation gestures in adults -- Context of use of Palm with a Lateral Movement gestures in adults.

Contexts of use of Palm Presentation and Palm with a Lateral Movement gestures in children -- Data -- Empirical analysis -- Context of use of Palm with a Lateral Movement gestures in children -- Discussion -- References -- Appendix -- How gestures help children to track reference in narrative -- Introduction -- Method -- Participants and test -- Coding and analysis -- Results -- Some examples -- Comments and conclusions -- References -- Gestures and multimodal development: Some key issues for language acquisition -- What has gesture to do with language evolution and acquisition? -- "What Is It That Develops?" -- Gesture and multimodal development in young children -- Gestures and late language acquisition -- Gesture forms and functions -- Classification and terminology -- Conclusion -- References -- Name index -- Subject index.