1. A foreword; 2. From gesture in conversation to visible action as utterance (by Seyfeddinipur, Mandana); 3. Part I. Gaze and face; 4. Including facial gestures in gesture-speech ensembles (by Bavelas, Janet); 5. Mutual gaze and recognition: Revisiting Kendon's "Gaze direction in two-person conversation" (by Streeck, Jurgen); 6. Part II. Manual gestures - quotable gestures and pointing; 7. Gesture in the communicative ecology of a South African township (by Brookes, Heather); 8. The emblem as metaphor (by McNeill, David); 9. Pointing, talk, and the bodies: Reference and joint attention as embodied interactional achievements (by Mondada, Lorenza); 10. Part III. Manual gestures - their nature and relationship to language; 11. Gesture as "deliberate expressive movement" (by Muller, Cornelia); 12. On the lower limit of gesture (by Andren, Mats); 13. Part IV. Language evolution; 14. The word according to Adam: The role of gesture in language evolution (by Corballis, Michael C.); 15. The intelligibility of gesture within a framework of co-operative action (by Goodwin, Charles); 16. Part V. Sign systems; 17. Signs and space in Arandic sand narratives (by Green, Jennifer); 18. Different strokes: Gesture phrases and gesture units in a family homesign from Chiapas, Mexico (by Haviland, John B.); 19. Gesture in all its forms: Following in the footsteps of Adam Kendon (by Goldin-Meadow, Susan); 20. Part VI. Children language development; 21. The development of two pragmatic gestures of the so-called Open Hand Supine family in Italian children (by Graziano, Maria); 22. How gestures help children to track reference in narrative (by Cristilli, Carla); 23. Gestures and multimodal development: Some key issues for language acquisition (by Guidetti, Michele); 24. Name index; 25. Subject index