In everyday discourse, people describe and point at things, but they also depict things with
their hands, arms, head, face, eyes, voice, and body, with and without props. Examples are …

Ideophones are marked words that depict sensory imagery found in many of the world's
languages. They are noted for their special forms, distinct grammatical behaviour, rich …

Iconic words and signs are characterized by a perceived resemblance between aspects of
their form and aspects of their meaning. For example, in English, iconic words include peep …

Social robots serve people as tutors, caretakers, receptionists, companions, and other social
agents. People know that the robots are mechanical artifacts, yet they interact with them as if …

Written in readable, vivid, non-technical prose, this book, first published in 2007, presents
the highly respected scholarly research that forms the foundation for Deborah Tannen's best …

Interpreting in Interaction provides an account of interpreter-mediated communication,
exploring the responsibilities of the interpreter and the expectations of both the interpreter …

What does it mean to be transported by a narrative? to create a world inside one's head?
How do experiences of narrative worlds alter our experience of the real world? In this book …

This paper considers a range of so-called image macro Internet memes and describes them
as emerging multimodal constructions relying as much on image as on text, and …

In sign languages of the deaf some signs can meaningfully point toward things or can be
meaningfully placed in the space ahead of the signer. This obligatory part of fluent …

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