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Elements of meaning in gesture / Geneviève Calbris ; translated by Mary M. Copple.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Calbris, Geneviève.
- Series:
- Gesture studies ; v. 5.
- Gesture studies ; v. 5
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gesture.
- Semiotics.
- Psycholinguistics.
- Thought and thinking.
- Speech.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (398 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Summarizing her pioneering work on the semiotic analysis of gestures in conversational settings, Geneviève Calbris offers a comprehensive account of her unique perspective on the relationship between gesture, speech, and thought. She highlights the various functions of gesture and especially shows how various gestural signs can be created in the same gesture by analogical links between physical and semantic elements. Originating in our world experience via mimetic and metonymic processes, these analogical links are activated by contexts of use and thus lead to a diverse range of semantic const
- Contents:
- pt. 1. The functions of gesture in relation to speech
- pt. 2. The systematic organization of gestural signs
- pt. 3. The symbolic relations between gestures and notions
- pt. 4. The gestural sign in utterance.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9786613329080
- 9781283329088
- 1283329085
- 9789027285171
- 9027285179
- OCLC:
- 769101862
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