ISGS : International Society for Gesture Studies

Gesture - The Living Medium
Papers from the First Congress of the International Society for Gesture Studies,
The University of Texas at Austin, June 5 - 8, 2002

Works and lives of gesture

Goodwin, Charles: Multi-Modal Gesture
Murphy, Keith: Further Notes on the Synthesis of Form: Gestures, Talk, and Graphic Thinking in Architectural Practice
Ashley, Richard and Mader, Ronda: The Expressive Movements of Flutists: Categories And Functions
Frazier, Stefan: How Does She Play That? The Roles of Talk and Embodiment in Referring to Objects and Persons
Phillabaum, Scott: Constructing Identity through Talk, Space, and the Body
Mondada, Lorenza: Describing surgical gestures: the view from researcher's and surgeon's video recordings

Semiotics and semantics of gesture

Calbris, Geneviève: Semantic Structure of Gestures
Parrill, Fey and Sweetser, Eve: Representing Meaning: Morphemic-Level Analysis within a Holistic Approach to Gesture Transcription.
MacGregor,D: Real Space Blends in Spoken Language: Evidence from 'Mr. Roberts'
Fricke, Ellen: Origo, Pointing, and Speech – The Phenomenon of Two Non-Identical Origos on the Gestural and Verbal Level
Cienki, Alan: Bush’s and Gore’s Gestures:Do They Correlate with ‘Strict Father’ versus ‘Nurturant Parent’ Language?

Mittelberg, Irene: Making Grammar Visible:The Use of Metaphoric Gestures to Represent Grammatical Categories and Structures
Webb, Rebecca: American Metaphoric Gestures: A Lexicon and Components

Gesture, discourse, and understanding

Cosnier, Jacques: Own-Body Use For The Perception Of The Partner's Affects, About empathy and the concept of Body-Analyser
Maury-Rouan, Claire: Do Listener’s Facial Expressions Influence Speaker’s Discourse?
Payrató, Lluís: Variation, Multimodal Communication and Multilingualism: The VARCOM Project
Tabensky, Alexis: Gestures in Oral Presentations by Second Language Learners
Zukow-Goldring, Patricia: Perceiving Reference through Dynamic Gesture during Early Lexical Development

The production of gesture

Furuyama, Nobuhiro: A Study on Coordination of Speech, Gesture and Breathing Movements

Furuyama, Nobuhiro, McNeil, David, and Park-Doob, Mischa: Is Speech-Gesture Production Ballistic or Interactive?

Embodiment and performance

Julio Cesar Tavares de Souza Embodied language, gesture and memory: how can one “get ginga"

Koenig, Christopher J.: Gesture and Embodiment: A Performance Ethnographic Perspective

Lonergan, J. E. : The Ecology of Servitude in Tarahumara Ritual Tesgüinada

Carr, Tessa and Shoemaker, Deanna: The Performance of Gesture: A Feminist Enactment of Heavy Metal

Gestures and signs

Mcclave, Evelyn: Nonmanual Gestures in American Sign Language
Cormier, Kearsy: The Effect of number Marking on the Use of Space in ASL
Pfau, Roland: The Grammar of Headshake: Sentential Negation in German Sign Language
Taub, Sarh, Pinar, Pilar& Galvan, Dennis: Comparing Spatial Information in Speech/Gesture and Signed Language

Gestures and computers

Newlands, Allison: Using Speech Related Gestures to Aid Referential Communication in Face-to-face and Computer-Supported Collaborative Work

Corradini, Andrea: Gesture Interfaces for Multimodal Systems in HCI