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Gestures We Live by: The Pragmatics of Emblematic Gestures

by Lluís Payrató
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781501526749
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
  • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter
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  • Pages: 251
  • Original Price: USD 31.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 400 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Linguistics / General

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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.

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

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