Elements of meaning in gesture

Elements of meaning in gesture / Geneviève Calbris ; translated by Mary M. Copple.

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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Main Author: Calbris, Geneviève
Format: eBook
Language:English
French
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., ©2011.
Series:Gesture studies ; v. 5.
Subjects:
Gesture.
Semiotics.
Psycholinguistics.
Thought and thinking.
Speech.
gesture.
psycholinguistics.
thinking.
speech (communication function)
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Communication Studies.
Gesture
Psycholinguistics
Semiotics
Speech
Thought and thinking
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xx, 378 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:9027285179
9789027285171
1283329085
9781283329088
9786613329080
6613329088
Language:In English with some French text.
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.

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