Jürgen Streeck Editor & Author

Jürgen Streeck, Professor of Communication Studies and Anthropology at the University of Texas, Austin, is known for his ground-breaking work on gesture, embodied interaction, and the bodily foundations of meaning. Among his publications are Gesturecraft: The Manu-facture of Meaning (2009), Embodied Interaction: Language and Body in the Material World (edited with C. Goodwin and C. D. LeBaron, 2011), and Intercorporeality: Emerging Socialities in Interaction (edited with C. Meyer and J. S. Jordan, 2016). His articles have appeared in Gesture, the Journal of Pragmatics, Research on Language and Social Interaction, Annual Review of Anthropology, and the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. He has been a Fellow at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) at Universität Bielefeld, Germany, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany, and Carl V. Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany.