Metaphor and gesture /:

Studying gestures in language use offers the opportunity to uncover fundamental properties of metaphor which so far have received little interest - if at all. This is a shift towards studying metaphor as it is used, and it has important theoretical consequences because it reveals that metaphoricity...

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Weitere Verfasser: Cienki, Alan J., Müller, Cornelia, 1960-
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2008.
Schriftenreihe:Gesture studies ; v. 3.
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Zusammenfassung:Studying gestures in language use offers the opportunity to uncover fundamental properties of metaphor which so far have received little interest - if at all. This is a shift towards studying metaphor as it is used, and it has important theoretical consequences because it reveals that metaphoricity is dynamic; it indicates that the speaker establishes or creates metaphoricity online through a general cognitive process, which is in principle modality independent. These facets of metaphor were uncovered through linguistic microanalyses of multi-modal segments of talk or discourse. Online cogniti.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (viii, 306 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789027290809
9027290806
1282104780
9781282104785
9786612104787
6612104783
ISSN:1874-6829 ;

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