Elements of Meaning in Gesture

摘要: Summarizing her pioneering work on the semiotic analysis of gestures in conversational settings, Genevieve Calbris offers a comprehensive account unique perspective relationship between gesture, speech, and thought. She highlights various functions gesture especially shows how gestural signs can be created same by analogical links physical semantic elements. Originating our world experience via mimetic metonymic processes, these are activated contexts use thus lead to diverse range constructions rather as, from components Meccano kit, many different objects assembled. By (re)presenting perceptual schemata that mediate concrete abstract, may frequently anticipate verbal formulation. Arguing for as symbolic system its own right interfaces with thought speech production, Calbris’ book brings challenging new studies will seminal generations researchers.