N. J. Enfield is a Staff Scientist in the Language and Cognition Group at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, The Netherlands. His recent publications include Person Reference in Interaction (with T. Stivers, 2007, Cambridge) and Linguistic Epidemiology (2003).

Review of the hardback: '… extraordinarily interesting book … it is a virtue of Enfield's book that, through its clarity and explicitness, it opens these differences in viewpoint up for debate. This is one reason why the impact of The Anatomy of Meaning will go beyond the value of its empirical findings and the contributions to the workings of gesture that it makes.' Pragmatics and Cognition

• 1. Composite utterances; Part I. Deictic Components of Moves: 2. Demonstratives; 3. Lip-pointing; 4. Hand-pointing; Part II. Illustrative Components of Moves: 5. Modeling; 6. Diagramming; 7. Editing; 8. Conclusion.

N. J. Enfield is a Staff Scientist in the Language and Cognition Group at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, The Netherlands. His recent publications include Person Reference in Interaction (with T. Stivers, 2007, Cambridge) and Linguistic Epidemiology (2003).

Review of the hardback: '… extraordinarily interesting book … it is a virtue of Enfield's book that, through its clarity and explicitness, it opens these differences in viewpoint up for debate. This is one reason why the impact of The Anatomy of Meaning will go beyond the value of its empirical findings and the contributions to the workings of gesture that it makes.' Pragmatics and Cognition

• 1. Composite utterances; Part I. Deictic Components of Moves: 2. Demonstratives; 3. Lip-pointing; 4. Hand-pointing; Part II. Illustrative Components of Moves: 5. Modeling; 6. Diagramming; 7. Editing; 8. Conclusion.

N. J. Enfield is a Staff Scientist in the Language and Cognition Group at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, The Netherlands. His recent publications include Person Reference in Interaction (with T. Stivers, 2007, Cambridge) and Linguistic Epidemiology (2003).

Review of the hardback: '… extraordinarily interesting book … it is a virtue of Enfield's book that, through its clarity and explicitness, it opens these differences in viewpoint up for debate. This is one reason why the impact of The Anatomy of Meaning will go beyond the value of its empirical findings and the contributions to the workings of gesture that it makes.' Pragmatics and Cognition

• 1. Composite utterances; Part I. Deictic Components of Moves: 2. Demonstratives; 3. Lip-pointing; 4. Hand-pointing; Part II. Illustrative Components of Moves: 5. Modeling; 6. Diagramming; 7. Editing; 8. Conclusion.