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This volume is the first to offer an overview on metaphor and gesture - a new multi-disciplinary area of research. Scholars of metaphor have been paying increasing attention to spontaneous gestures with speech; meanwhile, researchers in gesture studies have been focussing on the abstract ideas which receive physical representation through metaphors when speakers gesture. This book presents a snapshot of the state of the art in these converging fields, offering research papers as well as commentaries from multiple perspectives. In addition to conceptual metaphor theory it includes different theoretical approaches to semiotics, and the methods used range from controlled experimentation, to cognitive ethnography, to lexical semantic analysis. The use of metaphor in gesture is shown to reflect idiosyncracies of thought in the moment of speaking as well as structural, cultural, and interactional patterns. The series of commentaries discusses the potential importance of studying metaphor and gesture from the perspectives of such fields as anthropology, cognitive linguistics, conversation analysis, psychology, and semiotics.

Gesture. --- Metaphor. --- Parabole --- Figures of speech --- Reification --- Mudra --- Acting --- Body language --- Elocution --- Movement (Acting) --- Oratory --- Sign language --- Gesture --- Metaphor --- #KVHA:Amerikaanse gebarentaal --- #KVHA:Meertalige communicatie --- Semiotics --- Lexicology. Semantics

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The present article offers a condensed overview, of why a comparative view on gestures in human and nonhuman primates may offer important insights to both: researchers of human as well as of nonhuman primates. It is argued that a comparative view may further contribute to the debate over the evolution of language but that in addition it may also enhance understanding of the relation of language and gesture in humans. The article sketches programmatic issues, which are summarized in the list of framing questions for the workshop and this special issue on "Gestural communication in nonhuman and human primates"; it is aimed to clarify conceptual and methodological prerequisites and to offer points of departure for future comparative research.

Gesture --- Animal communication --- Primates --- Philology & Linguistics --- Languages & Literatures --- Animal communication. --- Gebärdensprache. --- Gesture. --- Mensch. --- Nichtverbale Kommunikation. --- Primaten. --- Primates. --- Linguistics --- Semiotics --- Quadrumana --- Mammals --- Animal biocommunication --- Animal language --- Biocommunication, Animal --- Language learning by animals --- Animal behavior --- Mudra --- Acting --- Body language --- Elocution --- Movement (Acting) --- Oratory --- Sign language

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Art styles --- Painting --- painting [image-making] --- geometric figures --- Pfahler, Georg Karl --- anno 1900-1999 --- Germany