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Metaphor and gesture /
Studying gestures in language use offers the opportunity to uncover fundamental properties of metaphor which so far have received little interest - if at all. This is a shift towards studying metaphor as it is used, and it has important theoretical consequences because it reveals that metaphoricity...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
©2008.
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| Colección: | Gesture studies ;
v. 3. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Metaphor and Gesture; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Why study metaphor and gesture?; From left to right ... ; Gesture as a conceptual mapping tool; A fresh look at the foundations of mathematics; Peircean semiotics meets conceptual metaphor; Unexpected metaphors; Catchment, growth point, and spatial metaphor; Form, meaning, and convention; What gestures reveal about the nature of metaphor; Commentaries on the value of studying metaphor and gesture from the perspectives of different disciplines; Index.