The Cambridge Handbook of Gesture Studies

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The Cambridge Handbook of Gesture Studies

Cambridge University Press, 2024.

Under the general editorship: A. Cienki

The study of gesture-the movements people make with their hands when talking-has grown into a well-established field and research is still being pushed into exciting new directions. Bringing together a team of leading scholars, this Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of gesture studies, combining historical overviews as well as current, concise snapshots of state-of-the-art, multidisciplinary research. Organised into five thematic parts, it considers the roles of both psychological and interactional processes in gesture use, and considers the status of gesture in relation to language. Attention is given to different theoretical and methodological frameworks for studying gesture, including semiotic, linguistic, cognitive, developmental, and phenomenological theories and observational, experimental, corpus linguistic, ethnographic, and computational methods. It also contains practical guidelines for gesture analysis along with surveys of empirical research. Wide ranging yet accessible, it is essential reading for academic researchers and students in linguistics and cognitive sciences.

Creation and Analysis of the Multimedia Russian Corpus for Gesture Research

Rakhilina E. V., Cienki A., , in: The Cambridge Handbook of Gesture Studies.: Cambridge University Press, 2024. P. 249–272.

The chapter considers gesture studies in relation to corpus linguistic work. The focus is on the Multimedia Russian Corpus (MURCO), part of the Russian National Corpus. The chapter includes a brief biography of the creator of this corpus, Elena Grishina. The compilation of the corpus out of a set of Russian classic feature films and ...

Added: February 13, 2025

Research target: Philology and Linguistics

Language: English

Keywords: gestures

The Cambridge Handbook of Gesture Studies

Неканонические имена белого духовенства в истории русского языка

Budennaya E., Русская речь 2026 Т. 4 С. 57–78

This study analyzes non-calendar and hypocoristic Christian names within the Russian white clergy. It identifi es two active periods of name formation using Slavic hypocoristic suffi xes: the 11th — 14th centuries (peaking in the 12th) and the 16th — 17th centuries. The fi rst period is tied to the general adoption of Christian names, where diminutive forms acted ...

Added: October 11, 2026

Гипокористические имена на -ец- в древнерусском языке

Budennaya E., Slovĕne 2026 Т. 1 С. 31–67

The article examines Old Russian anthroponyms with the suffix -ec-, originally conveying the meaning ‘less than X’. A diachronic corpus study of 11th–17th-century texts reveals that while this suffix lacked inherent pejorative connotations in Old Russian sources, contextual (adherent) pejoration is clearly observable. For pre-15th-century chronicles, two primary usage patterns are identified—1) characters with explicit negative evaluation, and 2) ...

Added: October 11, 2026

Рассказ о Вавилонской башне (Быт 11:1–9). Новый перевод и комментарий

Seleznev M., Луппова А. А., Вестник Свято-Филаретовского института 2026 Т. 18 № 1(57) С. 10–35

The story of the Tower of Babel (Gen 11:1-9) is one of the key episodes in the narratives of the Book of Genesis. In modern scholarship, various—often sharply divergent—datings of this pericope are proposed, as well as different interpretations of its place in the picture of the formation of the biblical text that was put ...

Added: October 9, 2026

История Каина и Авеля (Быт 4:1–16). Новый перевод и комментарий

Seleznev M., Луппова А. А., Вестник Свято-Филаретовского института 2026 Т. 18 № 2 (58) С. 322–349

Like other narratives in the Book of Genesis, the story of Cain and Abel (Gen 4:1–16) has been studied and commented upon for more than two millennia. However, recent scholarship has introduced significant revisions to traditional interpretations. Over the past five years, several monumental commentaries on Genesis 1–11 have been published, offering new—and sometimes mutually ...

Added: October 9, 2026

FROM THE HISTORY OF LXX AND QUMRAN STUDIES: THE BIRTH, DEATH, AND POSTHUMOUS EXISTENCE OF AN ALLEGED DEUT 32:8 FRAGMENT OF 4QDEUTQ

Seleznev M., Vestnik Drevnei Istorii 2026 Vol. 3 No. 86 P. 589–592

The article reconstructs the 'biography' of an alleged (in fact, non-existent) fragment of 4QDeutq said to contain a non-Masoretic reading of Deut 32 : 8. It traces how erroneous references to the fragment emerged during the preliminary publication of the Scrolls in the 1950s, the scholarly attention this fragment received, its eventual disappearance from Qumran studies after the official ...

Added: October 9, 2026

Субстантивное число в шугнанском языке: корпусное и экспериментальное исследование

Ronko R., Тимофеева В. Д., Индоиранские языки 2026 Т. 2 № 2 С. 117–146

The paper is devoted to the variable number marking in Shughni nouns and reports the results of corpus and experimental studies. In some languages, including Shughni, the marking of plural nouns is not compulsory. Many factors such as animacy, referentiality, morphological and semantic properties, or syntactic position may determine the presence or absence of number marking. The corpus study investigates ...

Added: October 8, 2026

Вариативность форм настоящего времени глагола быть в корпусе говора села Спиридонова Буда (Злынковский район, Брянская область): проблема на стыке грамматики и социолингвистики

Ronko R., Zemicheva S., Труды института русского языка им. В.В. Виноградова 2026 Т. 3 № 49 С. 133–149

In the dialects of the Russian-Belarusian borderland, the verb byt’ ‘to be’ in the present tense is represented by a set of short (e, ё) and full forms (ecть, ёсць, etc.). This article investigates the variability of these forms in the dialect corpus of the village of Spiridonova Buda (Zlynkovskij District, Bryansk Region) and in ...

Added: October 8, 2026

Экспедиции диалектологического кружка НИУ ВШЭ в деревни Западнодвинского района Тверской области

Ronko R., RHEMA. РЕМА 2026 № 1 С. 9–20

In the introductory article to the thematic volume devoted to grammatical research on the speech of several villages, the main linguistic-geographical information about the dialect is presented, along with a description of the key methodological principles for working with the material. The dialects under study belong to the group of the Pskov dialects and border ...

Added: October 8, 2026

Рецепция философии Ф.В.Й. Шеллинга в поздних работах А.Ф. Лосева

Rezvykh P. V., Вестник Российского университета дружбы народов. Серия: Философия 2026 Т. 30 № 1 С. 127–143

The issue delivers an analysis of schellingian motives in the later works by A.F. Losev. The author brings information about Losev’s retrospective evaluation of Schelling’s influence on the formation of his own philosophical approach, it’s specific character and it’s grade. The author shows that all the main investigation projects of the later Losev which have ...

Added: October 7, 2026

Выставка крокодилов в Пассаже в 1864 году: к истории замысла повести «Крокодил» и заметки «Нечто личное» Ф. М. Достоевского

Pershkina A., Slovĕne 2026 Т. 15 № 1 С. 174–192

The article newly presents archival materials from the Directorate of Imperial Theaters relative to the organization of a crocodile exhibition held in St. Petersburg Passage department store in the autumn of 1864, along with newspaper reports on the event. The close analysis of specific articles demonstrates that this exhibition served as the direct inspiration and ...

Added: October 5, 2026

Nomos e poikilía dell'Essere. Genesi metafisica del molteplice. Una deduzione schellinghiana

Dezi A., Sesto San Giovanni: Mimesis, 2026.

This book is a metaphysical inquiry into the nature and origin of the manifold. Taking Schelling’s Erlangen lectures of 1820–1821 as its point of departure and hermeneutic horizon, it develops an interpretation of Nomos that transcends its political, juridical, and social determinations. Nomos thereby emerges as the ontological principle of an infinite, variegated multiplicity of ...

Added: October 2, 2026

Файзов, Д. оии: стихи 2024-2026 годов / Данил Файзов; предисл. М. Павловца. М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2026. — 160 с. (Серия «Новая поэзия»)

Файзов Д., М.: Новое литературное обозрение, 2026.

Новая книга Д. Файзова пронизана голосами других поэтов. Речь не о расхожей постмодернистской центонности. Это микроинтертекстуальность на уровне конкретных слов и приемов, коллаж осколков чужих голосов, однако таких осколков, которые сохраняют способность отсылать к целому и к тому же вписаны — вклеены на манер аппликации — в узнаваемую интонацию самого поэта. Данил Файзов—поэт, культуртрегер, редактор. ...

Added: October 2, 2026

Manuscript tradition of Kallistos Angelikoudes’ Hesychastic consolation: myths and realities of a fluid text

Vinogradov A., Rodionov O., Travaux et Memoires 2026 Vol. 30 No. 2 P. 1075–1089

This article examines the manuscript tradition of Kallistos Angelikoudes’ Hesychastic consolation, a fluid and complex corpus of thirty Logoi preserved primarily in Vat. gr. 736. The authors survey all known witnesses—including the autograph Barb. gr. 420, the Lond. Arund. 520, and several later copies—and analyze their textual relationships, variant readings, and codicological features. They demonstrate ...

Added: October 1, 2026

Какой национальности лицо? Семантика и прагматика одной конструкции

Громенко Е. С., Krongauz M., Антропологический форум 2026 № 70 С. 163–183

The paper describes the construction litso takoy-to natsionalnosti ‘a person of such-and-such an ethnicity’ in Russian with its semantic and pragmatic characteristics. The purpose of the study is to trace the appearance of the construction and analyse how it is used and how it is perceived. Three expressions representing this construction are considered in more ...

Added: September 30, 2026

Язык и семиотика тела». Исследования Г. Е. Крейдлина по воплощенной семиотике

Nikolaeva Y., Вопросы языкознания 2024 № 2 С. 143 –158

Взаимодействие тела и среды посредством невербальных знаков и присвоение этимзнакам лингвистических обозначений определяет переход от простого существования к семи-отическому уровню. Один из основных принципов этого подхода заключается в следующем:тело как инструмент взаимодействия с окружающей средой и другими субъектами служит основой для оценки всех контекстов и событий прежде всего как благоприятных (для существо-вания и развития организма), ...

Added: September 3, 2025

Creation and Analysis of the Multimedia Russian Corpus for Gesture Research

Rakhilina E. V., Cienki A., , in: The Cambridge Handbook of Gesture Studies.: Cambridge University Press, 2024. P. 249–272.

Added: February 13, 2025

Referential phenomena in speaker's kinetic channels

Budennaya E., Evdokimova A., Nikolaeva J. et al., , in: Компьютерная лингвистика и интеллектуальные технологии: По материалам ежегодной международной конференции «Диалог» (Москва, 17 июня — 20 июня 2020 г.)Вып. 19(26).: М.: Изд-во РГГУ, 2020. P. 118–131.

The article addresses the relation of referential expressions and co-occurring kinetic phenomena (hand and head gestures) on the material of the RUPEX multimodal corpus. The results reflect significant differences in how individual movements and gestures are aligned with two major types of reference (full NPs vs. reduced expressions). It was initially assumed that full NPs ...

Added: June 26, 2020

De profundis: проблемы глубокой разметки мультимедийного русского корпуса и пути решения

Переверзева С. И., Ермолаева Н. А., Zueva A. et al., Труды института русского языка им. В.В. Виноградова 2019 № 21 С. 319–325

The paper focuses on the manual gesture annotation in the Multimodal Russian Corpus (MURCO), which was started up by E.A. Grishina and is continued by the authors of this paper. The important idea of the annotation process is the attempt to provide “the uniformity and commonality of the markup” [Grishina 2010] to the maximum degree ...

Added: April 27, 2020

Automatic detection of gaze convergence in multimodal collaboration: a dual eye-tracking technology

Stepanov A., Shvarts A., Chumachenko D., The Russian Journal of Cognitive Science 2018 Vol. 5 No. 3 P. 4–17

The paper analyses the advantages and limitations of the current technical solutions for dual eye-tracking (DUET) in relation to the research questions from educational science about joint attention in a multimodal teaching/ learning collaboration. The insufficiency of the current systems for the analysis of multimodal collaboration is stated as the reviewed systems do not allow researchers to ...

Added: April 22, 2020

"У тебя глаза, как нож": взгляды и жесты персонажей в стихотворениях В.С. Высоцкого

Переверзева С. И., В кн.: Владимир Высоцкий: поэт, актёр, певец : сб. науч. ст.: Гродно: Гродненский государственный университет им. Янки Купалы, 2019. С. 114–124.

На материале поэтических текстов В.С. Высоцкого рассматриваются многозначные жесты и взгляды, исполняемые персонажами стихотворений. Цель исследования состоит в том, чтобы проверить, во-первых, может ли В.С. Высоцкий выбирать для разных значений некоторого невербального знака разные номинации, и если да, то какие номинации для какого значения он обычно использует, во-вторых, существуют ли у наиболее частотных из таких ...

Added: November 13, 2019

Tense and Lax Body Parts in the Russian Deictic Gestures: The Case of Index Finger Pointing

Переверзева С. И., , in: Компьютерная лингвистика и интеллектуальные технологии: По материалам ежегодной международной конференции «Диалог» (Москва, 29 мая — 1 июня 2019 г.)Вып. 18(25).: [б.и.], 2019. P. 497–512.

The article regards the way in which the deictic gestures with the active index finger are executed in Russian body language and focuses on the role of the tension of the index finger (slightly curved vs. extended). Using the data retrieved from the Russian Multimedia Corpus, we discover the dependency between the tension of the ...

Added: June 25, 2019

Детские вежливые жесты и их отображение в русской литературе XIX-XX вв.: жест «шаркнуть ногой»

Переверзева С. И., В кн.: ВЕЖЛИВОСТЬ И АНТИВЕЖЛИВОСТЬ В ЯЗЫКЕ И КОММУНИКАЦИИ: Материалы международной научной конференции, состоявшейся в Институте лингвистики РГГУ 23-24 октября 2018 г.: М.: Политическая энциклопедия, 2018. С. 202–212.

The article describes the Russian gesture “to scrape one’s foot” presented in the literature of the period from the 19th up to the beginning of the 20th century. We regard some peculiarities of its performance; we also characterize the gesturer and the addressee, the typical contexts and standard nominations of this gesture. We pay special ...

Added: May 15, 2019

Гришина Е.А. Русская жестикуляция с лингвистической точки зрения (корпусные исследования). М: Языки славянской культуры, 2017. 744 с.

Переверзева С. И., Известия РАН. Серия литературы и языка 2019 Т. 78 № 2 С. 60–69

Review of the book by Elena A. Grishina "Russian gestures from a linguistic perspective". Moscow, 2017. 744 p. ...

Added: May 15, 2019

Роль жестикуляции в преодолении трудностей лексического доступа у пациентов с моторной афазией

Khudyakova M., Dragoy O., Кшняскина В. В., Вопросы языкознания 2018 № 1 С. 64–75

The present work is dedicated to the role of gestures in overcoming lexical access problems in patients with motor aphasia. The study is based on a corpus of narratives by brain-damaged individuals – «Russian CliPS» (Clinical Pear Stories), the videos from which were annotated in the linguistic annotator «ELAN», with the gestural layout included in ...

Added: June 26, 2018