Overview

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 constructions rather as, from the components of a Meccano kit, many different objects can be assembled. By (re)presenting perceptual schemata that mediate between the concrete and the abstract, gesture may frequently anticipate verbal formulation. Arguing for gesture as a symbolic system in its own right that interfaces with thought and speech production, Calbris’ book brings a challenging new perspective to gesture studies and will be seminal for generations of gesture researchers.

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Author:   Geneviève Calbris ,  Mary M. Copple
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   5
Weight:   0.880kg
ISBN:  

9789027228475

ISBN 10:   9027228477
Pages:   378
Publication Date:   09 November 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1. Foreword; 2. Acknowledgements; 3. Introduction; 4. Chapter 1. The gestural sign and related key concepts; 5. Chapter 2. The demarcative function of gesture; 6. Chapter 3. Identifying the referential function of gesture; 7. Chapter 4. Classification of referential gestures according to their priority components; 8. Chapter 5. Systematic analysis to identify gestural signs; 9. Chapter 6. Different gestures represent one notion: Variation; 10. Chapter 7. One gesture represents different notions: Polysemy and Polysign; 11. Chapter 8. The analogical links between gestures and notions; 12. chapter 9. The gestural sign and speech; 13. Chapter 10. Gesture, thought and speech; 14. Conclusion; 15. References; 16. Appendix A; 17. Appendix B; 18. Postscript: A semiotic and linguistic perspective on gestures; 19. Person index; 20. Subject index

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