Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. How the body relates to language and communication: Outlining the subject matter -- 1. Exploring the utterance roles of visible bodily action: A personal account -- 2. Gesture as a window onto mind and brain, and the relationship to linguistic relativity and ontogenesis -- 3. Gestures and speech from a linguistic perspective: A new field and its history -- 4. Emblems, quotable gestures, or conventionalized body movements -- 5. Framing, grounding, and coordinating conversational interaction: Posture, gaze, facial expression, and movement in space -- 6. Homesign: When gesture is called upon to be language -- 7. Speech, sign, and gesture -- II. Perspectives from different disciplines -- 8. The growth point hypothesis of language and gesture as a dynamic and integrated system -- 9. Psycholinguistics of speech and gesture: Production, comprehension, architecture -- 10. Neuropsychology of gesture production -- 11. Cognitive Linguistics: Spoken language and gesture as expressions of conceptualization -- 12. Gestures as a medium of expression: The linguistic potential of gestures -- 13. Conversation analysis: Talk and bodily resources for the organization of social interaction -- 14. Ethnography: Body, communication, and cultural practices -- 15. Cognitive Anthropology: Distributed cognition and gesture -- 16. Social psychology: Body and language in social interaction -- 17. Multimodal (inter)action analysis: An integrative methodology -- 18. Body gestures, manners, and postures in literature -- III. Historical dimensions -- 19. Prehistoric gestures: Evidence from artifacts and rock art -- 20. Indian traditions: A grammar of gestures in classical dance and dance theatre -- 21. Jewish traditions: Active gestural practices in religious life -- 22. The body in rhetorical delivery and in theater: An overview of classical works -- 23. Medieval perspectives in Europe: Oral culture and bodily practices -- 24. Renaissance philosophy: Gesture as universal language -- 25. Enlightenment philosophy: Gestures, language, and the origin of human understanding -- 26. 20th century: Empirical research of body, language, and communication -- 27. Language - gesture - code: Patterns of movement in artistic dance from the Baroque until today -- 28. Communicating with dance: A historiography of aesthetic and anthropological reflections on the relation between dance, language, and representation -- 29. Mimesis: The history of a notion -- IV. Contemporary approaches -- 30. Mirror systems and the neurocognitive substrates of bodily communication and language -- 31. Gesture as precursor to speech in evolution -- 32. The co-evolution of gesture and speech, and downstream consequences -- 33. Sensorimotor simulation in speaking, gesturing, and understanding -- 34. Levels of embodiment and communication -- 35. Body and speech as expression of inner states -- 36. Fused Bodies: On the interrelatedness of cognition and interaction -- 37. Multimodal interaction -- 38. Verbal, vocal, and visual practices in conversational interaction -- 39. The codes and functions of nonverbal communication -- 40. Mind, hands, face, and body: A sketch of a goal and belief view of multimodal communication -- 41. Nonverbal communication in a functional pragmatic perspective -- 42. Elements of meaning in gesture: The analogical links -- 43. Praxeology of gesture -- 44. A "Composite Utterances" approach to meaning 45. Towards a grammar of gestures: A form-based view -- 45. Towards a grammar of gestures: A form-based view -- 46. Towards a unified grammar of gesture and speech: A multimodal approach -- 47. The exbodied mind: Cognitive-semiotic principles as motivating forces in gesture -- 48. Articulation as gesture: Gesture and the nature of language -- 49. How our gestures help us learn -- 50. Coverbal gestures: Between communication and speech production -- 51. The social interactive nature of gestures: Theory, assumptions, methods, and findings -- V. Methods -- 52. Experimental methods in co-speech gesture research -- 53. Documentation of gestures with motion capture -- 54. Documentation of gestures with data gloves -- 55. Reliability and validity of coding systems for bodily forms of communication -- 56. Sequential notation and analysis for bodily forms of communication -- 57. Decoding bodily forms of communication -- 58. Analysing facial expression using the facial action coding system (FACS) -- 59. Coding psychopathology in movement behavior: The movement psychodiagnostic inventory -- 60. Laban based analysis and notation of body movement -- 61. Kestenberg movement analysis -- 62. Doing fieldwork on the body, language, and communication -- 63. Video as a tool in the social sciences -- 64. Approaching notation, coding, and analysis from a conversational analysis point of view -- 65. Transcribing gesture with speech -- 66. Multimodal annotation tools -- 67. NEUROGES - A coding system for the empirical analysis of hand movement behaviour as a reflection of cognitive, emotional, and interactive processes -- 68. Transcription systems for gestures, speech, prosody, postures, and gaze -- 69. A linguistic perspective on the notation of gesture phases -- 70. A linguistic perspective on the notation of form features in gestures -- 71. Linguistic Annotation System for Gestures -- 72. Transcription systems for sign languages: A sketch of the different graphical representations of sign language and their characteristics