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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Tesis Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; Boston :
De Gruyter Mouton,
[2016]
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| Colección: | Applications of cognitive linguistics ;
v. 28. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Table of Contents ; Foreword ; 1. Introduction ; 1.1 Previous research into how speakers express static locative relationships ; 1.2 The place of our study in the literature on space and gesture ; 1.3 The value of a comparative English/French study ; 1.4 Structure of the book.
- 1.5 Further precisions 2. Language, gesture, and locative expressions: a background ; 2.1 An overview of the spatial domain ; 2.1.1 Basic concepts in static locative relationships ; 2.1.2 Separating static locative relationships from dynamic motion events.
- 2.1.3 The lexical encoding of static locative relationships in English and French 2.1.4 The different types of static locative relationships ; 2.1.5 Direction and frames of reference ; 2.1.6 Perspective and viewpoint ; 2.1.7 Deixis and origo.
- 2.1.8 The different sub-types of locative relationships 2.1.9 Summary ; 2.2 Gesture ; 2.2.1 The different types of gesture ; 2.2.2 Gesticulations ; 2.2.2.1 Iconicity in gesture ; 2.2.2.2 Metaphoric gestures ; 2.2.2.3 Pointing gestures ; 2.2.2.4 Beats ; 2.2.2.5 Cohesives.
- 2.2.2.5.1 The gesticulations of interest in the current research 2.2.3 The relationship of speech and gesture ; 2.2.3.1 An overview of the literature ; 2.2.3.2 The view taken in the current study ; 2.3 Gesture and the expression of spatial information: what we know.