Gestures We Live By

The Pragmatics of Emblematic Gestures

Lluís Payrató author Ignasi Clemente author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:De Gruyter

Published:31st Jan '22

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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.

ISBN: 9781501526749

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 538g

251 pages