The anatomy of meaning: speech, gesture, and composite utterances

This book presents original case studies of speech-with-gesture based on fieldwork carried out with speakers of Lao (a language of Southeast Asia). He examines pointing gestures (including lip and finger-pointing) and illustrative gestures (examples include depicting fish traps and tracing kinship relations). His detailed analyses focus on the semiotic unifiction problem, that is, how to make a single interpretation when multiple signs occur together