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