Elements of meaning in gesture

Elements of meaning in gesture

by Calbris, Geneviève

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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…

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  • Full title :Elements of meaning in gesture / Geneviève Calbris ; translated by Mary M. Copple.

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.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:©2011.

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The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (xx, 378 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9027285179, 9789027285171, 1283329085, 9781283329088, 9786613329080, 6613329088
  • oclc:ocn769101862
  • LC Classification:P117
  • Dewey Decimal:302.2/22

Table of Contents

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.

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Subjects

Gestes gesture Gestures LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Communic… Parole Pensée psycholinguistics Psycholinguistique Semiotics Speech Thinking Thought and thinking

Writers

Calbris, Geneviève

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