Locative expressions in English and French : a multimodal approach /

Expressing location is one of the most common linguistic tasks that we perform in our daily lives. This book provides the first comprehensive analysis into how speakers of English and French use gesture as well as speech when describing where objects are located. It shows that spoken locative expres...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tutton, Mark (Autor)
Formato: Tesis Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2016]
Colección:Applications of cognitive linguistics ; v. 28.
Temas:
Grammar, Comparative and general > Locative constructions.
English language > Locative constructions.
French language > Locative constructions.
Speech and gesture.
Locatifs.
Français (Langue) > Locatifs.
Parole et gestes.
English language > Locative constructions
Grammar, Comparative and general > Locative constructions
Speech and gesture
Contrastive English/French Analysis.
Gesture as Part of Locative Expressions.
Spatial Lexemes.
Academic Dissertation
dissertations.
Academic theses
Academic theses.
Thèses et écrits académiques.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:Expressing location is one of the most common linguistic tasks that we perform in our daily lives. This book provides the first comprehensive analysis into how speakers of English and French use gesture as well as speech when describing where objects are located. It shows that spoken locative expressions are made up of both speech and gesture components, and that the two modalities contribute in a complementary fashion to convey locative meaning.
Descripción Física:1 online resource
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9783110354867
3110354861
9783110635041
3110635046

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