Gestures We Live By

The Pragmatics of Emblematic Gestures
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-5015-2674-9
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, Band 22, 247 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 431 g

Reihe: ISSN

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.

Zielgruppe

Scholars in Pragmatics and Linguistics

Autoren/Hrsg.

Clemente, Ignasi

Payrató, Lluís

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik

Über Autor(innen)

Lluís Payrató, University of Barcelona, Spain; Ignasi Clemente, Hunter College, USA.