Subject(s): Aboriginal Australians in Folklore. -- Storytelling in Australia in Central Australia. -- Women, Aboriginal Australian in Australia in Central Australia. -- Arandic language region, multimodal approach to communication, sign and gesture in sand story, gradient phenomena, relationship between gesture and speech -- Sand stories as social and cultural practices : History,Lexical semantics of the term tyepety, techniques and tools, mapping, disagreement and games in central Australia -- Catching a move as it flies: multimodal data collection and annotation : Recording naturalistic data in challenging condition, sand quiz- testing the meaning of V-units -- Lines in the sand : Conventionalized ground-ground type V-units, visible paths in sand, combinations of static and dynamic elements, motion and multimodality, interpretation of motion in space, innovation and change -- Body-anchored and airborne action : Aboriginal sign languages and gesture in Australia, hand signs in sand stories, tunnel ball game in sand -- Ordering, rewarding and erasure : V-units and the order of narrative events, erasing the story spaces, role of deictic units in transition between frames -- Vocal style in sand stories : Talking song and singing story, arandic songs, doodlebugs and bogeymen -- Crossing boundaries : Multimodality, form and functions in sand stories, alternative representations in sand , sign and gesture, convention or continuously varying forms, verbal art, visual art, inscriptive practices- beyond central Asia