Conventional gestures are those movements we make, such as waving hello and shaking hands, that are part of a learned, shared, symbolic system. In this book Ric
Gestures are ubiquitous and natural in our everyday life. They convey information about culture, discourse, thought, intentionality, emotion, intersubjectivity,
This book brings together papers which address a range of issues regarding the nature and structure of sign languages and other gestural systems, and how they e
The book is a themed, mutually referenced collection of articles from a very high-powered set of authors based on the workshop on “Current developments in non
This volume is the first to bring together researchers studying a range of different types of emerging sign languages in the Americas, and their relationship to