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" Metaphor and gesture / "
edited by Alan Cienki, Cornelia Müller.
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BL
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1036192
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b790562
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| Title & Author
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Metaphor and gesture /\ edited by Alan Cienki, Cornelia Müller.
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| Publication Statement
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Amsterdam ;Philadelphia :: John Benjamins Pub. Co.,, ©2008.
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| Series Statement
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Gesture studies,; v. 3
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1 online resource (viii, 306 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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1282104780
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: 6612104783
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: 9027290806
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: 9781282104785
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: 9786612104787
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: 9789027290809
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9027228434
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9789027228437
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Metaphor and Gesture; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Why study metaphor and gesture?; From left to right ... ; Gesture as a conceptual mapping tool; A fresh look at the foundations of mathematics; Peircean semiotics meets conceptual metaphor; Unexpected metaphors; Catchment, growth point, and spatial metaphor; Form, meaning, and convention; What gestures reveal about the nature of metaphor; Commentaries on the value of studying metaphor and gesture from the perspectives of different disciplines; Index.
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Studying gestures in language use offers the opportunity to uncover fundamental properties of metaphor which so far have received little interest - if at all. This is a shift towards studying metaphor as it is used, and it has important theoretical consequences because it reveals that metaphoricity is dynamic; it indicates that the speaker establishes or creates metaphoricity online through a general cognitive process, which is in principle modality independent. These facets of metaphor were uncovered through linguistic microanalyses of multi-modal segments of talk or discourse. Online cogniti.
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Gesture.
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Metaphor.
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Gesture.
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LANGUAGE ARTS DISCIPLINES-- Communication Studies.
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LANGUAGE ARTS DISCIPLINES-- Speech.
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Metaphor.
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| Dewey Classification
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808.5
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P117.M48 2008eb
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Cienki, Alan J.
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Müller, Cornelia,1960-
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