Body and grammar: approaches to the study of embodied expressions

Abstract

This review aims to present and comment on three studies gathered at the round table entitled “The body on grammar: gestures in the construction of senses”. These studies have a common interest in the role of body language as a means of producing meanings. The researchers presented three approaches: (1) a sociolinguistic approach, (2) a cognitive-interactionist and intercultural perspective and (3) an intracultural approach, focused on variation of emblematic gestures. The use of technologies to solve problems so far marginally addressed in the scope of linguistic science is also an intersection point between the investigations exposed here. The purpose of this review is to motivate other researchers to seek more information about the topics presented here.