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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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Other Authors: | , |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
| Published: |
Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
©2008.
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| Series: | Gesture studies ;
v. 3. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | 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 is dynamic; it indicates that the speaker establishes or creates metaphoricity online through a general cognitive process, which is in principle modality independent. These facets of metaphor were uncovered through linguistic microanalyses of multi-modal segments of talk or discourse. Online cogniti. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 306 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027290809 9027290806 1282104780 9781282104785 9786612104787 6612104783 |
| ISSN: | 1874-6829 ; |