Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction to embodied communication: why communication needs the body -- Some boundary conditions on embodied agents sharing a common world -- Toward a theory of embodied communication: self-sustaining wild systems as embodied meaning -- Synchrony and swing in conversation: coordination, temporal dynamics -- The visual perception of dynamic body language -- Mirrors for embodied communication -- The role of the mirror system in embodied communication -- Everything is movement: on the nature of embodied communication -- Communication and cooperation in living beings and artificial agents -- Laborious intersubjectivity: attentional struggle and embodied communication in an auto-shop -- The emergence of embodied communication in artificial agents and humans -- Dimensions of embodied communication -- towards a typology of embodied communication -- Neurological disorders of embodied communication -- Gestural imagery and cohesion in normal and impaired discourse -- Conversational metacognition -- Imitation in embodied communications -- from monkey mirror neurons to artificial humans -- Persuasion and expressivity of gestures in humans and machines -- Implementing a non-modular theory of language production in an embodied conversational agent -- Towards a neurocognitive model of turn taking in multimodal dialog.