Gestures we live by: the pragmatics of emblematic gestures

This book examines emblems (or emblematic gestures) from a pragmatic view, that is to say, as autonomous gestures that fulfill communicative functions, embody illocutionary values, and act as signals of cognitive relevance. Emblems are conceived as multimodal tools on the frontier between verbal and...

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Main Authors: Payrató, Lluís 1960- (Author), Clemente, Ignasi (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; Boston De Gruyter Mouton [2019]
Series:Mouton series in pragmatics 22
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Summary:This book examines emblems (or emblematic gestures) from a pragmatic view, that is to say, as autonomous gestures that fulfill communicative functions, embody illocutionary values, and act as signals of cognitive relevance. Emblems are conceived as multimodal tools on the frontier between verbal and nonverbal modes, and are part of the communicative repertoire of individuals and sociocultural groups. Emblems constitute clear cases of embodiment and are susceptible to many processes of metaphorization (contrasting or not with verbal metaphors), metonymy, and interference between modalities. The applications of emblematic analysis are numerous, from lexicography to second language learning, or to natural language processing
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)
Physical Description:1 online resource (IV, 247 pages)
ISBN:9781501509957
DOI:10.1515/9781501509957

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