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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819399503321

Autore

Calbris Geneviève

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2011

ISBN

1-283-32908-5

9786613329080

90-272-8517-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (398 p.)

Collana

Gesture studies ; ; v. 5

Altri autori (Persone)

CoppleMary M

Disciplina

302.2/22

Soggetti

Gesture

Semiotics

Psycholinguistics

Thought and thinking

Speech

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. The functions of gesture in relation to speech -- pt. 2. The systematic organization of gestural signs -- pt. 3. The symbolic relations between gestures and notions -- pt. 4. The gestural sign in utterance.

Sommario/riassunto

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