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This book illustrates the problems connected with the body and the sign: the real body and the body of the text, somaticism and semiology (both as a general sign theory and in the medical sense as «symptomatology»). The author seeks to derive a more general principle from these two words, referring to the representation of experience in different literary texts. If we are talking about the representation of experience, we cannot, by any means, ignore the body that becomes the essential point of reference for human experience. This general principle aims at creating a matter of concept, a somatic criticism project, which is closely related to the issue of rhythm in literary texts - a rhythm understood as an intermediary between the body and the sense of the text.

Human body and language. --- Language and culture. --- Culture and language --- Culture --- Body, Human, and language --- Language and the human body --- Language and languages

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Research on the "embodiment hypothesis" within cognitive linguistics and beyond is growing steadily aiming to bridge language, culture, and cognition. This volume seeks to address the question regarding what specific roles individual body parts play in the embodied conceptualization of emotions, mental faculties, character traits, cultural values, and so on in various cultures, as manifested in their respective languages. It brings together some linguistic evidence that sheds light on the embodied nature of human cognition from languages as diverse as Arabic, Chinese, Danish, English, Estonian, German, Greek, Indonesian, Japanese, Persian, Spanish, and Turkish. The studies in this volume also show how embodiment is mediated in those languages through such cognitive mechanisms as metonymy and metaphor.

Sociolinguistics --- Dialectology --- Langage --- --Corps --- --Métaphore --- --Language and culture --- Human body and language --- Language and languages --- Variation --- Language and culture --- Languages & Literatures --- Philology & Linguistics --- Language and culture. --- Human body and language. --- Variation. --- Characterology of speech --- Language diversity --- Language subsystems --- Language variation --- Linguistic diversity --- Variation in language --- Body, Human, and language --- Language and the human body --- Culture and language --- Culture --- Corps --- Métaphore --- Language and languages - Variation

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"Research on nonmanual elements or nonmanuals in sign languages has focused on both the possible functions and the occurrence (frequency and form) of these elements in recent years. As a matter of fact, research on nonmanuals is still a quite uncharted territory in Austrian Sign Language (OGS) today, which has also initiated the study given. In order to identify head and body movements in OGS, these nonmanuals were determined and analyzed functionally via a new user-oriented methodology. Getting feedback of multiple native signers was a main part of this method. Accordingly, you will find the findings of this study in this volume: various functions such as negation, assertion, interrogativity, conditionality, and many more can be expressed nonmanually. Brand new insights into sign language research are given, as well as astonishing results: even (epistemic) modality can be expressed by particular head and body movements"--

Sign language --- Gesture --- Human body and language --- Semiotics --- Austrian Sign Language --- ÖGS (Sign language) --- Österreichische Gebärdensprache --- Semeiotics --- Semiology (Linguistics) --- Semantics --- Signs and symbols --- Structuralism (Literary analysis) --- Body, Human, and language --- Language and the human body --- Language and languages --- Mudra --- Acting --- Body language --- Elocution --- Movement (Acting) --- Oratory --- Deaf --- Gesture language --- Research. --- Sign Language --- Nonmanuals

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Questions of multimodal communication, language and embodiment have become pertinent in a wide range of research areas: cognitive science, psychology, linguistics, computer science, anthropology, sociology, semiotics, and art. What is lacking is an overview of this fast growing but highly diverse field. This reference work provides an encompassing documentation of how body movements relate to language and communication. Chapters authored by leading scholars outline the scope of the phenomenon, present current and past approaches, and provide multidisciplinary methods of analysis.

Nonverbal communication. --- Speech and gesture. --- Human body and language. --- Communication non-verbale --- Parole et gestes --- Corps humain et langage --- Nonverbal communication --- Speech and gesture --- Human body and language --- Body language. --- Perceptual-motor learning. --- Social perception. --- Languages & Literatures --- Philology & Linguistics --- #KVHA:Taalkunde --- #KVHA:Communicatie --- #KVHA:Lichaamstaal --- #KVHA:Multimodaliteit --- Body, Human, and language --- Language and the human body --- Language and languages --- Gesture and language --- Gesture and speech --- Language and gesture --- Gesture --- Non-verbal communication --- Communication --- Expression --- E-books --- #KVHA:Meertalige communicatie --- Body language --- Perceptual-motor learning --- Social perception --- Linguistics. --- Embodiment. --- Multimodal Communication.