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Date: 07-Dec-2011
From: Paul Peranteau [paul at benjamins.com]
Subject: Elements of Meaning in Gesture: Copple (Ed), Calbris


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Subject: Elements of Meaning in Gesture: Copple (Ed), Calbris

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Title: Elements of Meaning in Gesture 
Series Title: Gesture Studies 5  

Publication Year: 2011 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: http://benjamins.com/catalog/gs.5 


Author: Geneviève Calbris
Editor: Mary M. Copple

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027285171 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 95.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027285171 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 143.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027228475 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 95.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027228475 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 143.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027228475 Pages:  Price: Europe EURO 100.70


Abstract:

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. 



Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics
                     Semantics


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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