This article reviews the literature on cross-cultural variation of gestures. Four factors
governing the variation were identified. The first factor is the culture-specific convention for …

Languages differ in how they describe space, and such differences between languages can
be used to explore the relation between language and thought. This book shows that even …

Many nonverbal behaviors—smiling, blushing, shrugging—reveal our emotions. One
nonverbal behavior, gesturing, exposes our thoughts. This book explores how we move our …

Gestures that spontaneously accompany speech convey information coordinated with the
concurrent speech. There has been considerable theoretical disagreement about the …

The voluminous literature on linguistic relativity has concerned itself primarily with the
search for influences of particular languages on nonlinguistic cognition in situations in which …

Imagine a child who has never seen or heard any language at all. Would such a child be
able to invent a language on her own? Despite what one might guess, the children …

Languages differ considerably in the attention that they pay to manner as a dimension of
motion events. One factor that seems to influence attention to manner is a language's …

Do speakers gesture to benefit their listeners? This study examined whether speakers use
gestures differently when those gestures have the potential to communicate and when they …

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 …

Relating Events in Narrative, Volume 2: Typological and Contextual Perspectives edited by
Sven Strömqvist and Ludo Verhoeven, is the much anticipated follow-up volume to Ruth …