Acknowledgements

We would like to thank numerous scholars for their help and support. Michael Silverstein & Susan Gal (and their students at the Semiotics Workshop at the U. of Chicago), Adam Jaworski, Barbara Johnstone, Greg Myers, Charles Briggs, Norma Mendoza-Denton, Jane Hill, Linda Waugh, Susan Goldin-Meadow, Richard Cameron, Dennis Rosenbaum, Michele Koven, James Wilce, Alan Bell, Nikolas Coupland, Paul Kockelman, and Robin Shoaps. Chapter 3 was presented at the U. of Chicago Mini-Conference to honor Adam Kendon so a special thanks to Adam, David McNeill, and Susan Duncan for their suggestions. We owe a very special debt to the anonymous reviewers, Isja Cohen, and Jo Angouri from JB for all their help and recommendations.