Gesture
Topics may include, but are by no means limited to: the relationship between gesture and speech; the role gesture may play in communication in all the circumstances of social interaction, including conversations, the work-place or instructional settings; gesture and cognition; the development of gesture in children; the place of gesture in first and second language acquisition; the processes by which spontaneously created gestures may become transformed into codified forms; the documentation and discussion of vocabularies of ‘quotable’ or ‘emblematic’ gestures; the relationship between gesture and sign; studies of gesture systems or sign languages such as those that have developed in factories, religious communities or in tribal societies; the role of gesture in ritual interactions of all kinds, such as greetings, religious, civic or legal rituals; gestures compared cross-culturally; gestures in primate social interaction; biological studies of gesture, including discussions of the place of gesture in language origins theory; gesture in multimodal human-machine interaction; historical studies of gesture; and studies in the history of gesture studies, including discussions of gesture in the theatre or as a part of rhetoric.
Gesture provides a platform where contributions to this topic may be found from such disciplines as linguistics, archaeology, anthropology, biology, communication studies, neurology, ethology, theatre studies, literature and the visual arts, cognitive psychology and computer engineering.
Gesture is accompanied by a book series, Gesture Studies. A lot of information on the field of gesture studies can be found on the website of the International Society for Gesture Studies.
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Available back-volumes
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Complete backset (Vols. 1‒17; 2001‒2018) |
45 issues; 6,750 pp. |
EUR 5,062.00 | EUR 5,315.00 |
Volume 17 (2018) | 3 issues; 450 pp. | EUR 352.00 | EUR 397.00 |
Volume 16 (2017) | 3 issues; 450 pp. | EUR 342.00 | EUR 385.00 |
Volume 15 (2016) | 3 issues; 450 pp. | EUR 342.00 | EUR 374.00 |
Volume 14 (2014) | 3 issues; 450 pp. | EUR 342.00 | EUR 363.00 |
Volume 13 (2013) | 3 issues; 450 pp. | EUR 342.00 | EUR 352.00 |
Volumes 7‒12 (2007‒2012) | 3 issues; avg. 450 pp. | EUR 332.00 each | EUR 342.00 each |
Volumes 1‒6 (2001‒2006) | 2 issues; avg. 300 pp. | EUR 225.00 each | EUR 232.00 each |
Issues
Volume 18 (2019)
Volume 17 (2018)
Volume 16 (2017)
Volume 15 (2016)
Volume 14 (2014)
Volume 13 (2013)
Volume 12 (2012)
Volume 11 (2011)
Volume 10 (2010)
Volume 9 (2009)
Volume 8 (2008)
Volume 7 (2007)
Volume 6 (2006)
Volume 5 (2005)
Volume 4 (2004)
Volume 3 (2003)
Volume 2 (2002)
Volume 1 (2001)
Submission
Gesture offers online submission .
Before submitting, please consult the guidelines and the Short Guide to EM for Authors .
If you are not able to submit online, or for any other editorial correspondence, please contact the editors via e-mail: Sotaro Kita, S.Kitawarwick.ac.uk
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Authors must ensure that they have permission to use any third-party material in their contribution; the permission should include perpetual (not time-limited) world-wide distribution in print and electronic format. For more information, please consult the authors' rights page.
Open Access
For information about possibilities to post a version of your article online or in an institutional repository ('green' open access), please consult the authors' rights page.
Gesture offers the possibility for accepted papers to be made available under the 'gold' open access model immediately upon publication, after payment of a fee (Article Publication Charge, APC) by or on behalf of the author. For more information, see our Open Access policy.