Gestures We Live By : : The Pragmatics of Emblematic Gestures / / Lluís Payrató, Ignasi Clemente.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020
• VerfasserIn: Payrató, Lluís,; Clemente, Ignasi,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2019]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Mouton Series in Pragmatics [MSP] , 22
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (IV, 247 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Foreword and acknowledgements --; Contents --; Introduction --; 1. The historical perspective: A synthesis --; 2. Emblems and other gestures --; 3. The taxonomical task: Methodology and repertoires --; 4. An ecological view on emblems --; 5. The cognitive and interactive dimensions of emblems --; 6. Conclusions and final remarks --; Appendices --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501509957; 9783110696288; 9783110696271; 9783110743166; 9783110610765; 9783110664232; 9783110610307; 9783110606287
• ISSN: 1864-6409
• DOI: 10.1515/9781501509957
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Lluís Payrató, Ignasi Clemente.

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.