The nonverbal shift in early modern English conversation / / Axel Hubler

• Autore: Hubler Axel
• Pubblicazione: Philadelphia, : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 2007
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (293 p.)
• Disciplina: 420.1/41
• Soggetto topico: English language - Prosodic analysis; English language - Early modern, 1500-1700 - Discourse analysis; English language - Great Britain - Discourse analysis; Nonverbal communication
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: The Nonverbal Shift in Early Modern English Conversation -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Table of contents -- Introduction -- chapter 1 -- Subjecting the body to control -- 1.1 Subject to control: Speech-accompanying gesturesand other kinesic behavior -- 1.2 Prescriptive evidence from courtesy literature -- Notes -- chapter 2 -- Are gestures dispensable? -- 2.1 McNeill's growth point theory -- 2.2 Negative evidence -- Notes -- chapter 3 -- The touchstone of real life -- 3.1 Descriptive evidence from historical personal documents -- 3.2 Extrapolating -- Notes -- chapter 4 -- Words for gestures? -- 4.1 Gestural idioms -- 4.2 Redundant phrasal verbs16 -- 4.3 Pure spatial verbs -- 4.4 Body-part verbs -- 4.5 Embodied verbs of intellectual action -- 4.6 Critical review -- Notes -- chapter 5 -- Turning to the vocal mode -- 5.1. Among segmentals -- 5.2 The best pick of prosody -- 5.3 Prosodic configurations and their iconicity with kinesic gestures -- 5.4 Establishing further homologies between prosody and kinesics -- 5.5 Conclusions -- Notes -- chapter 6 -- Pieces of historical evidencefor a prosodic turn -- 6.1 Prescriptive evidence from the courtesy literature -- 6.2 Descriptive evidence from personal documents -- Notes -- chapter 7 -- Repercussions of the prosodic turnin the lexicon -- 7.1 Awareness and lexicalization -- 7.2 Lexemes of prosody -- 7.3 The borderline case of alternants -- 7.4 Critical review -- Notes -- chapter 8 -- Prince and petit bourgeois -- A virtual picture -- 8.1 The database -- 8.2 Nonverbal analyses -- 8.3 Comparison and discussion -- Notes -- chapter 9 -- Recast into a conjectural historyof modal change -- 9.1 Main ingredients -- 9.2 The process of change -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Sources -- References -- Author index* -- Subject index -- The series Pragmatics & -- Beyond New Series.
• Sommario/riassunto: This is the first historical investigation on the nonverbal component of conversation. In the courtly society of 16th and 17th century England, it is argued that a drift appeared toward an increased use of prosodic means of expression at the expense of gestural means. Direct evidence is provided by courtesy books and personal documents of the time, indirect evidence by developments in the English lexicon. The rationale of the argument is cognitively grounded; given the integral role of gestures in thinking-for-speaking, it rests on an isomorphism between gestural and prosodic behavior that is established semiotically and elaborated by insights from neurocognitive frequency theory and task dynamics. The proposal is rounded off by an illustration from present-day conversational data and the proof of its adaptability to current theories of language change. The cross-disciplinary approach addresses all those interested in (historical) pragmatics, cognitive linguistics, cultural semantics, semiotics, or language change.
• Titolo autorizzato: The nonverbal shift in early modern English conversation
• ISBN: 9786612154959; 9781282154957; 1282154958; 9789027292834; 9027292833
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910973663403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Pragmatics & beyond ; ; 154.