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​Call for Papers: GESTURE - Special Issue for Early-Career Researchers

We are pleased to share a call for papers from the journal GESTURE for a forthcoming special issue entitled "Gesture Studies From Early-Career Researchers (ECRs): Theories, Methods, and Applications". The special issue aims to provide a platform for PhD students and researchers within ten years of completing their PhD to present theoretically informed and methodologically rigorous work on gesture in human communication and cognition.

Submissions may address gesture in a wide range of contexts, including signed languages, bilingualism, education, cross-cultural communication, and understudied populations, and may draw on diverse theoretical and methodological approaches. To support early-career contributors, selected authors will receive mentorship from senior researchers, including Alan Cienki, Kensy Cooperrider, Simon Harrison, Renia Lopez, Sherman Wilcox, and Heng Li.

Submission guidelines. Authors are invited to submit an abstract of up to 500 words (plus selected references) as a PDF, including contact details (title, affiliation, email address).

Abstracts should specify theoretical framing, methods, data sources, and expected contributions. Submissions should be sent to the Guest Editor, Heng Li (leehem168@163.com), by 1 March 2026.

Key dates.
– 1 March 2026: Abstract submission deadline
– 1 April 2026: Notification of decisions
– 31 July 2026: Full paper submission

We encourage members to consider submitting and to share this call with eligible colleagues and students.

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