Elements of meaning in gesture:
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Main Author: Calbris, Geneviève 1941- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam John Benjamins Pub. Co. ©2011
Series:Gesture studies 5
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Online Access:DE-1046
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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
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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xx, 378 pages)
ISBN:9027228477
9027285179
9789027228475
9789027285171

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