Kawai Chui is Professor of Linguistics and a research fellow at the Research Center for Mind, Brain, and Learning, and the Research Center for Chinese Cultural Subjectivity, National Chengchi University, Taipei. Her main research interests include the use of language and gesture in discourse, the neurocognitive processing of gestures in speech communication, and the gesture development in children with typical development and children with language delay. She is also engaged in a cross-language investigation of linguistic universality and specificity across Mandarin Chinese, Russian, and Czech.

• ContentsTablesFiguresPreface1 Language and Gesture in Conversation 1.1 Introduction1.2 Are gestures informative?1.3 Do gestures synchronize with speech?1.4 Overview of the study2 Speech-Gesture Cases in Conversation2.1 Introduction2.2 The selection of cross-modal cases2.3 Gesture phases and temporal demarcation2.4 Gestural configuration and types of ideas2.5 A corpus of data for study3 Language, Gesture, and Semantic Relationship3.1 Introduction3.2 Entity3.3 Motion, manner, and path3.4 Action and manner3.5 General discussion3.6 Conclusion4 Metaphors in Language and Gesture4.1 Introduction4.2 The entity metaphor4.3 Motion metaphors4.4 Orientation metaphors4.5 Action metaphors4.6 General discussion4.7 Conclusion5 Time in Language and Gesture5.1 Introduction5.2 Temporal span5.3 Deictic time5.4 Sequence time5.5 General discussion5.6 Conclusion6 Language, Gesture, and Temporal Relationship6.1 Introduction6.2 Preparation onsets, speech onsets, and fluent speech6.3 Stroke onsets, speech onsets, and fluent speech6.4 Gesture onsets, speech onsets, and disrupted speech6.5 General discussion6.6 Conclusion7 Perspectives on Production of Gestures in Speech Communication7.1 Use profile of gestures in conversation7.2 The lexical-retrieval view7.3 The action-system view7.4 The growth-point view7.5 General discussion7.6 ConclusionReferencesAppendicesIndex