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The nonverbal shift in early modern English conversation /
This is the first historical investigation on the nonverbal component of conversation. In the courtly society of 16th and 17th century England, it is argued that a drift appeared toward an increased use of prosodic means of expression at the expense of gestural means. Direct evidence is provided by...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub., Co.,
©2007.
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| Colección: | Pragmatics & beyond ;
new ser., 154. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This is the first historical investigation on the nonverbal component of conversation. In the courtly society of 16th and 17th century England, it is argued that a drift appeared toward an increased use of prosodic means of expression at the expense of gestural means. Direct evidence is provided by courtesy books and personal documents of the time, indirect evidence by developments in the English lexicon. The rationale of the argument is cognitively grounded; given the integral role of gestures in thinking-for-speaking, it rests on an isomorphism between gestural and prosodic behavior that is. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 278 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-272) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9789027292834 9027292833 6612154950 9786612154959 |
| ISSN: | 0922-842X ; |