Bauer, Anastasia. & Silva H. Ladewig (under revision). Recurrent head gestures in signed and spoken language, to be submitted to Open Linguistics, Special Issue "Gestural elements in signed and spoken languages", ed. by Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen & Sandra Debreslioska.

Bauer, Anastasia, Patrick C. Trettenbrein, Aleksandra Ćwiek, Petra B. Schumacher, Lisa-Marie Krause, Martin Schulte-Rüther, Chiara Zulberti, Anna Kuder, Silva H. Ladewig, Marc Schulder, Federica Amici, Door Spruijt, & Susanne Fuchs (submitted). Data Collection for Research on Multimodal Language and Communication: Methodological Challenges, Strategies and Workflow in Behavioural Sciences.

Preprint: Bauer, A., Trettenbrein, P. C., Amici, F., Ćwiek, A., Fuchs, S., Krause, L., … Schulte-Rüther, M. (2025, March 28). Data Collection in Multimodal Language and Communication Research: A Flexible Decision Framework. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/42tud_v1

Ladewig, Silva H. (2025). Aktuelle Trends und Entwicklungen in der linguistischen Gesten- und Multimodalitätsforschung In: Linguistische Berichte 283, 253-318.  https://doi.org/10.46771/9783967699494_2

Ladewig, Silva H. (2025). Embodied sharpness: exploring the slicing gesture in political talk shows, In: Frontiers in Psychology 15. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1494192

Ladewig, Silva H. & Lena Hotze (2023). From action to performative gesture. The Slapping movement used by children at the age of four to six, In: Semiotica2023(250), 91-116.

Harrison, Simon & Silva H. Ladewig (2021). Recurrent gestures throughout bodies, languages, and cultural practices. In: Gesture 20:2, 153–179.

Harrison, Simon, Silva H. Ladewig & Jana Bressem (2021) The diversity of recurrency: A special issue on recurrent gestures. In: Gesture 20:2, 153–179.

Ladewig, Silva H. & Lena Hotze (2021). The Slapping movement as an embodied practice of dislike: Inter-affectivity in interactions among children. In: Gesture 20:2, 285–312.

Ladewig, Silva H. & Lena Hotze (2020). Zur temporalen Entfaltung und multimodalen Orchestrierung von konzeptuellen Räumen am Beispiel einer Erzählung. In:  Zima, Elisabeth & Clarissa Weiß (Eds.). Multimodales Erzählen. Themenheft Linguistik online 104, 4/20, 109–136.

Ladewig, Silva H. (2019) Konzeptuelle Integration von Sprache und Geste am Beispiel gestisch vervollständigter Äußerungen
In: Mitteilungen des Deutschen Germanistenverbandes 66:4, 393–401.

Ladewig, Silva H. & Jana Bressem (2013). New insights into the medium hand – Discovering structures in gestures on the basis of the four parameters of sign language, Semiotica 197: 203-231.

Ladewig, Silva H. (2011). Putting the cyclic gesture on a cognitive basis. CogniTextes 6.

Bressem, Jana & Silva H. Ladewig (2011). Rethinking gesture phases – articulatory features of gestural movement?, Semiotica 184:1/4, 53-91

Ladewig, Silva H. (2010). Beschreiben, suchen und auffordern–Varianten einer rekurrenten Geste, Zeitschrift für Sprache und Literatur 41:1, 89-111..

Ladewig, Silva H. & Dorothea Horst (2024). Media as Processes of Doing and Perceiving. How a yoga pose in an online tutorial takes on meaning as felt sensation. In: Jan Georg Schneider & Martin Luginbühl (Eds.) Media as Procedures of Communication. John Benjamins, 158–187. https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.348.07lad

Ladewig, Silva H. (2024). Recurrent gestures. Cultural, individual, and linguistic dimensions of meaning. In: Alan Cienki (Hg.), The Cambridge Handbook of Gesture Studies. Cambridge University Press. 32-55. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108638869.003

Ladewig, Silva H. & Jana Bressem (2024). Gesture as a means for communicating and understanding embodied conceptualizations in second language interactions. In: Amanda Brown & Søren W. Eskildsen (Eds.) Multimodality across Epistemologies in Second Language Research. New York & London: Routledge, 22-35. 10.4324/9781003355670-3

Horst, Dorothea & Silva H. Ladewig (2022). Medienästhetische Grundierung multimodal vermittelter Leiblichkeit am Beispiel eines Yoga-Tutorials. In: Luginbühl, Martin & Dorothee Meer (Eds.) Parainteraktion in den Medien – Multimodale Perspektiven in TV, Radio und Hypermedien. Peter Lang.

Ladewig, Silva H. & Lena Hotze (2020). Von der Handlung zur performativen Geste. Eine Untersuchung der Wegschlagegeste im Erstspracherwerb. In: Michael Elmentaler & Oliver Niebuhr (Eds.) An den Rändern der Sprache. Peter Lang, 327–357.

Bressem, Jana, Silva H. Ladewig & Cornelia Müller (2018) Ways of expressing action in multimodal narrations – The semiotic complexity of character viewpoint depictions. In: Anika Hübl & Markus Steinbach (Eds.), Linguistic Foundations of Narration in Spoken and Sign Languages. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 223-249.

Ladewig, Silva H. (2014). Recurrent gestures. In: Cornelia Müller, Alan Cienki, Ellen Fricke, Silva H. Ladewig, David McNeill & Jana Bressem (Eds.), Body-Language-Communication: An International Handbook on Multimodality in Human Interaction. (Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science 38.2.) Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter: Mouton, 1558- 1575.

Ladewig, Silva H. (2014). Creating multimodal utterances. The linear integration of gestures into speech. In: Cornelia Müller, Alan Cienki, Ellen Fricke, Silva H. Ladewig, David McNeill & Jana Bressem (Eds.), Body-Language-Communication: An International Handbook on Multimodality in Human Interaction. (Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science 38.2.) Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter: Mouton, 1662- 1677.

Ladewig, Silva H. (2014). The cyclic gesture. In: Cornelia Müller, Alan Cienki, Ellen Fricke, Silva H. Ladewig, David McNeill & Jana Bressem (Eds.), Body-Language-Communication: An International Hand- book on Multimodality in Human Interaction. (Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science 38.2.) Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter: Mouton, 1605- 1618.

Ladewig, Silva H. & Jana Bressem (2013).  A linguistic perspective on the notation of gesture phases. In: Cornelia Müller, Alan Cienki, Ellen Fricke, Silva H. Ladewig, David McNeill & Sedinha Teßendorf (Eds.), Body-Language-Communication: An International Handbook on Multimodality in Human Interaction (Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science 38.1.) Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 1060- 1078.

Bressem, Jana, Silva H. Ladewig und Cornelia Müller (2013). A linguistic annotation system for gestures. In: Müller, Cornelia, Alan Cienki, Ellen Fricke, Silva H. Ladewig, David McNeill & Sedinha Teßendorf (Eds.), Body-Language-Communication: An International Handbook on Multimodality in Human Interaction.(Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science 38.1.) Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 1094-1124.

Müller, Cornelia & Silva H. Ladewig (2013). Metaphors for sensorimotor experiences. Gestures as embodied and dynamic conceptualizations of balance in dance lessons. In: Borkent, Mike, Barbara Dancygier & Jennifer Hinnell (Eds.), Language and the Creative Mind. Stanford: CSLI, 295-324.

Müller, Cornelia, Jana Bressem & Silva H. Ladewig (2013). Towards a grammar of gesture–a form based view. In: Müller, Cornelia, Alan Cienki, Ellen Fricke, Silva H. Ladewig, David McNeill & Sedinha Teßendorf (Eds.), Body-Language-Communication: An International Handbook on Multimodality in Human Interaction.(Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science 38.1.) Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 707-733.

Müller, Cornelia, Silva H. Ladewig & Jana Bressem (2013). Gesture and speech from a linguistic point of view–A new field and its history. In: Müller, Cornelia, Alan Cienki, Ellen Fricke, Silva H. Ladewig, David McNeill & Sedinha Teßendorf (Eds.), Body-Language-Communication: An International Handbook on Multimodality in Human Interaction. (Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science 38/1) Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 55-81.

Kolter, Astrid, Silva H. Ladewig, Michela Summa, Sabine Koch, Thomas Fuchs & Cornelia Müller (2012). Body memory and the emergence of metaphor in movement and speech. An interdisciplinary case study. In: Koch, Sabine, Thomas Fuchs & Cornelia Müller (Eds.), Body Memory, Metaphor, and Movement. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 201-226.

Ladewig, Silva H. (in press/2026). Iconicity in co-speech gestures. In: Olga Fischer, Kimi Akita and Pamela Perniss (Eds.) Handbook on Iconicity in Language. Oxford University Press.

Ladewig, Silva H. (2023). Gestures as part of language – Modern gesture research. In: Moike Jessen & Jörg Roche (Hgg.), Applied Cognitive Linguistics for Language Teachers. LIT Verlag.

Ladewig, Silva H. (/2023). Gestures and their meaning In: Moike Jessen & Jörg Roche (Hgg.),  Applied Cognitive Linguistics for Language Teachers. LIT Verlag.

Ladewig, Silva H. (2018). Gesten als Teil von Sprache – Die moderne Gestenforschung. In: Moike Jessen, Johan Bloomberg & Jörg Roche (Hgg.), Kognitive Linguistik. (Kompendium DaF/DaZ, Vol. 2) Tübingen: Narr Verlag, 290-300. hier zum digitalen Lexikon

Ladewig, Silva H. (2018) Gesten und ihre Bedeutung. In: Moike Jessen, Johan Bloomberg & Jörg Roche (Hgg.), Kognitive Linguistik. (Kompendium DaF/DaZ, Vol. 2) Tübingen: Narr Verlag, 300-312.  hier zum digitalen Lexikon

Bressem, Jana & Silva H. Ladewig (2009). Rezension zu: Ulrike Bohle, Das Wort ergreifen – das Wort übergeben. Explorative Studie zur Rolle redebegleitender Gesten in der Organisation des Sprecherwechsels. Berlin: Weidler Verlag 2007, Gesprächsforschung–Online-Zeitschrift zur verbalen Interaktion 10, 1-11.