Acknowledgments Introduction Pt. 1: Setting the Stage 1: Images, Inside and Out 2: Conventions, Gestures, and Signs Pt. 2: Varieties of Gesture 3: Guide to Gesture Classification, Transcription, and Distribution 4: Gestures of the Concrete 5: Experiment on Gestures of the Concrete 6: Gestures of the Abstract Pt. 3: Theory 7: Gestures and Discourse 8: Self-Organization of Gesture and Speech 9: How Gestures Affect Thought 10: Experiments on Self-Organization Pt. 4: Topics 11: Children 12: The Brain Appendix: Procedures for Eliciting, Recording, Coding, and Experimenting with Gestures References Index