Gesture Studies aims to publish book-length publications on all aspects of gesture.

Topics may include, but are by no means limited to:

• the relationship between gesture and speech

• the role gesture may play in communication in all the circumstances of social interaction, including conversations, the work-place or instructional settings

• gesture and cognition

• the development of gesture in children

• the place of gesture in first and second language acquisition

• the processes by which spontaneously created gestures may become transformed into codified forms; the documentation and discussion of vocabularies of ‘quotable’ or ‘emblematic’ gestures

• the relationship between gesture and sign

• studies of gesture systems or sign languages such as those that have developed in factories, religious communities or in tribal societies

• the role of gesture in ritual interactions of all kinds, such as greetings, religious, civic or legal rituals

• biological studies of gesture, including discussions of the place of gesture in language origins theory

• gesture in multimodal human-machine interaction; historical studies of gesture

• and studies in the history of gesture studies, including discussions of gesture in the theatre or as a part of rhetoric

Gesture Studies is published by John Benjamins, visit the book series website here.

The editor of Gesture Studies is Simon Harrison. Enquiries are welcome.

ISSN 1874-6829