UID:
almafu_9959239004102883
Format:
1 online resource (398 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-283-32908-5
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9786613329080
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90-272-8517-9
Series Statement:
Gesture studies ; v. 5
Content:
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
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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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.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 90-272-2847-7
Language:
English
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