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The role of gesture in communication and cognition...

• Mingyuan Chu & Sotaro Kita (University of Birmingham): The relationship between co-thought gestures and co-speech gestures.

• Irene Mittelberg (Vrije Universiteit):  Geometric and image-schematic patterns in gesture space: On the 'ex-bodiment' of embodied structures.

• Wing Chee So (National University of Singapore), Sotaro Kita (University of Birmingham) & Susan Goldin-Meadow (University of Chicago): Reference tracking by hands in discourse units.

• Fey Parrill (CASE Western University): Using the hands to read the mind.

• Daniel Casasanto (Stanford University): Conceptual affiliates of metaphorical gestures.

• Cornelia Müller & Susanne Tag (European-University Viadrina Frankfurt): Dynamics of metaphoricity in spoken discourse.

• Nobuhiro Furuyama (National Institute of Informatics, Japan), Kazuki Sekine (Shirayuri College, Japan), Susan Duncan & David McNeill (University of Chicago): Does Catchment Constrain Referential Acts? -- Cartoon Narrative by Native English speakers.

• Alan Cienki (Vrije Universiteit) and Sotaro Kita (University of Birmingham): Theme session discussion.