18.579, Books: Historical Ling/Pr agmatics/Cognitive Science: H übler

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Date: 20-Feb-2007
From: Paul Peranteau < paul at benjamins.com >
Subject: The Nonverbal Shift in Early Modern English Conversation: Hübler 

	
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Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 15:11:11
From: Paul Peranteau < paul at benjamins.com >
Subject: The Nonverbal Shift in Early Modern English Conversation: Hübler 
 



Title: The Nonverbal Shift in Early Modern English Conversation 
Series Title: Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 154  

Publication Year: 2007 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: http://www.benjamins.com/cgi-bin/t_bookview.cgi?bookid=P%26bns%20154 


Author: Axel Hübler

Hardback: ISBN: 9027253978 Pages: 295 Price: U.S. $ 138.00


Abstract:

This is the first historical investigation on the nonverbal component of
conversation. For the courtly society of 16th and 17th century England, it
is argued that a drift appeared toward an increased use of prosodic means
of expression at the expense of gestural means. Direct evidence is provided
by courtesy books and personal documents of the time, indirect evidence by
developments in the English lexicon. The rationale of the argument is
cognitively grounded; given the integral role of gestures in
thinking-for-speaking, it rests on an isomorphism between gestural and
prosodic behavior that is established semiotically and elaborated by
insights from neurocognitive frequency theory and task dynamics. The
proposal is rounded off by an illustration from present-day conversational
data and the proof of its adaptability to current theories of language
change. The cross-disciplinary approach addresses all those interested in
(historical) pragmatics, cognitive linguistics, cultural semantics,
semiotics, or language change. 



Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     Historical Linguistics
                     Pragmatics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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