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Elements of meaning in gesture /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Calbris, Geneviève
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Francés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2011.
Colección:Gesture studies ; v. 5.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario: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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xx, 378 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:9027285179
9789027285171
1283329085
9781283329088
9786613329080
6613329088