The natural ecology of human language is face-to-face interaction comprising the exchange
of a plethora of multimodal signals. Trying to understand the psycholinguistic processing of …

Abstract The Gesture as Simulated Action (GSA) framework was proposed to explain how
gestures arise from embodied simulations of the motor and perceptual states that occur …

This article seeks to develop Translanguaging as a theory of language and discuss the
theoretical motivations behind and the added values of the concept. I contextualize …

A rising epistemological paradigm in the cognitive sciences—embodied cognition—has
been stimulating innovative approaches, among educational researchers, to the design and …

We explore using body gestures for hidden emotional state analysis. As an important non-
verbal communicative fashion, human body gestures are capable of conveying emotional …

When people talk, they gesture. Gesture is a fundamental component of language that
contributes meaningful and unique information to a spoken message and reflects the …

Emoji (small coloured images encoded like text) went from unavailable outside Japan in
2010 to active use by 92% of the world's online population in 2016. Their sharp rise is often …

Speakers use spontaneous hand gestures as they speak and think. These gestures serve
many functions for speakers who produce them as well as for listeners who observe them …

Abstract concepts are often embodied through metaphor. For example, we talk about moving
through time in metaphorical terms, as if we were moving through space, allowing us to'look …

There is plenty of evidence that speech and gesture form a tightly integrated system, as
reflected in parallelisms in language production, comprehension, and development (;). Yet, it …