Metaphor and gesture / edited by Alan Cienki, Cornelia Muller.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cienki, Alan J.

Müller, Cornelia, 1960-

Series:

Gesture studies ; v. 3.

Gesture studies, 1874-6829 ; v. 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gesture.

Metaphor.

Physical Description:

viii, 306 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume is the first to offer an overview on metaphor and gesture - a new multi-disciplinary area of research. Scholars of metaphor have been paying increasing attention to spontaneous gestures with speech; meanwhile, researchers in gesture studies have been focussing on the abstract ideas which receive physical representation through metaphors when speakers gesture. This book presents a snapshot of the state of the art in these converging fields, offering research papers as well as commentaries from multiple perspectives. In addition to conceptual metaphor theory it includes different theoretical approaches to semiotics, and the methods used range from controlled experimentation, to cognitive ethnography, to lexical semantic analysis. The use of metaphor in gesture is shown to reflect idiosyncracies of thought in the moment of speaking as well as structural, cultural, and interactional patterns. The series of commentaries discusses the potential importance of studying metaphor and gesture from the perspectives of such fields as anthropology, cognitive linguistics, conversation analysis, psychology, and semiotics.

Contents:

Cover Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of contents

Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Why study metaphor and gesture?

From left to right...Coverbal gestures and their symbolic use of space

Gesture as a conceptual mapping tool

A fresh look at the foundations of mathematics: Gesture and the psychological reality of conceptual metaphor

Peircean semiotics meets conceptual metaphor: Iconic modes in gestural representations of grammar

Unexpected metaphors*

Catchment, growth point, and spatial metaphor: Analyzing Derrida's oral discourse on deconstruction

Form, meaning, and convention: A comparison of a metaphoric gesture with an emblem

What gestures reveal about the nature of metaphor

Commentaries on the value of studying metaphor and gesture from the perspectives of different disciplines

Metaphoric gesture and cognitive linguistics

Metaphoric gestures and cultural analysis

Metaphor and gesture: A view from the microanalysis of interaction

Implications of cognitive metaphor and gesture studies for Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis and vice versa

Sign and gesture: Towards a new paradigm

The study of metaphor and gesture: A critique from the perspective of semiotics

The neuroscience of metaphoric gestures: Why they exist

Metaphor and gesture: Some implications for psychology

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612104787

9781282104785

1282104780

9789027290809

9027290806

OCLC:

560611855