Chapter Insights on the nature of language from the study of gesture units
Gesture categories and gesture units are characterized according to both formal and functional criteria. The resultant functional types fall along a continuum according to the degree to which their tokens have conventionalized symbolic status. The more conventional the form/meaning pairing, the more...
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| description | Gesture categories and gesture units are characterized according to both formal and functional criteria. The resultant functional types fall along a continuum according to the degree to which their tokens have conventionalized symbolic status. The more conventional the form/meaning pairing, the more straightforward it is to identify gestures as units. Most types of gesture categories are best viewed as having prototype structures, rather than a category structure with strict boundaries. This view on gesture aligns with some contemporary thinking about linguistic categories, which also espouses a prototype approach. The result is a coherent picture of how gesture interactions with different categories and units of spoken language, taking human audio-visual communication as dynamic and polysemiotic in nature. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1553162025-03-07T14:07:30Z Chapter Insights on the nature of language from the study of gesture units Cienki, Alan narrative structure semiotic systems phonological oppositions cognitive grammar axiology validation descriptive grammar lexical semantics Gesture categories and gesture units are characterized according to both formal and functional criteria. The resultant functional types fall along a continuum according to the degree to which their tokens have conventionalized symbolic status. The more conventional the form/meaning pairing, the more straightforward it is to identify gestures as units. Most types of gesture categories are best viewed as having prototype structures, rather than a category structure with strict boundaries. This view on gesture aligns with some contemporary thinking about linguistic categories, which also espouses a prototype approach. The result is a coherent picture of how gesture interactions with different categories and units of spoken language, taking human audio-visual communication as dynamic and polysemiotic in nature. 2025-03-07T14:07:28Z 2025-03-07T14:07:28Z 2020 chapter ONIX_20250307_9788381429894_741 9788381429894 9788381429887 9788363839666 9788364462573 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/155316 eng image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://www.press.uni.lodz.pl/index.php/wul/catalog/book/342 Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego 10.18778/8142-988-7.04 10.18778/8142-988-7.04 83bfe9c9-323d-4283-b087-d859fd9af314 9788381429894 9788381429887 9788363839666 9788364462573 33-42 open access |
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