Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction: cognitive grammar and gesture studies? -- 2 Multimodality of grammar and its cognitive foundations -- 3 How are gestures integrated into linguistic structures? -- 4 Semantic integration of gestures: constructing multimodal reference objects -- 5 Multimodal sentences and discourse contexts: salience, attention and foregrounding -- 6 Conclusion -- Appendices -- References -- Index