Visible action as gesture
Western interest in gesture from classical antiquity to the eighteenth century
Four contributions from the nineteenth century: Andrea de Jorio, Edward Tylor, Garrick Mallery and Wilhelm Wundt
Gesture studies in the twentieth century: recession and return
Gesture units, gesture phrases and speech
Deployments of gesture in the utterance
Gesture and speech in semantic interaction
Gesture and referential meaning
Gestures of 'precision grip': topic, comment and question markers
Two gestures families of the open hand
Gesture without speech: the emergence of kinesic codes
'Gesture' and 'sign' on common ground
Gesture, culture and the communication economy
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