Gestures We Live By

The Pragmatics of Emblematic Gestures

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This book examines emblems (or emblematic gestures) from a pragmatic view, that is to say, as autonomous gestures that fulfill communicative functions, embody illocutionary values, and act as signals of cognitive relevance. Emblems are conceived as multimodal tools on the frontier between verbal and nonverbal modes, and are part of the communicative repertoire of individuals and sociocultural groups. Emblems constitute clear cases of embodiment and are susceptible to many processes of metaphorization (contrasting or not with verbal metaphors), metonymy, and interference between modalities. The applications of emblematic analysis are numerous, from lexicography to second language learning, or to natural language processing.
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Payrato, Lluis, Clemente, Ignasi
Titel
Gestures We Live By
Uitgever
De Gruyter
Jaar
2022
Taal
Engels
Pagina's
251
EAN
9781501526749
Bindwijze
Paperback

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