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Semiotics and the philosophy of language
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ISBN: 0333363558 033336354X 9780333363553 9780333363546 Year: 1984 Publisher: London : MacMillan,

Le langage silencieux
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ISBN: 2020067749 9782020067744 Year: 2000 Volume: 160 Publisher: Paris: Seuil,

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[2009] Edward T. Hall a montré, dans La Dimension cachée, que l'espace interpersonnel est une dimension de la culture. Le Langage silencieux avait conduit cette réflexion sur d'autres systèmes du même genre, et notamment le temps. Qu'est-ce qu'être en retard ? Qu'est-ce qu'attendre ? Le message exprimé là est différent selon qu'il vient d'un Européen, d'un Américain ou d'un Japonais. Ainsi le temps et, plus largement, la culture, sont-ils communication, autant que la communication est culturelle. Communication qui cache plus de choses qu'à première vue elle n'en révèle. A travers de nombreux exemples aussi précis que souvent cocasses, Edward T. Hall développe ainsi la théorie des systèmes de communication non verbaux.

Social semiotics
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ISBN: 0745603734 0745602533 9780745603735 Year: 1991 Publisher: Cambridge: Polity press,

Non-verbal communication
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ISBN: 0521290120 0521083702 9780521290128 Year: 1975 Publisher: Cambridge: Cambridge university press,

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The importance in social relationships of the exchange of information by non-verbal gestures and expressions, though long appreciated by artists and writers, has only recently become the subject of serious scientific study. The subject has been approached from different angles by psychologists studying the relevance of non-verbal communication to interpersonal relationships, by anthropologists interested in how these processes help to integrate societies, and by ethologists extrapolating the results of animal studies to human behaviour. The scope of the volume ranges from formal analysis of the communication process by an information theorist (Professor Mackay) and by a linguist (Professor Lyons), to accounts of the role of expression in the theatre (Dr Jonathan Miller) and in the visual arts (Professor Gombrich). There are contributions to the discussion written from the point of view of the zoologist, the ethologist, the psychologist and anthropologist.

Hand and mind : what gestures reveal about thought
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ISBN: 0226561348 0226561321 9780226561325 9780226561349 Year: 1992 Publisher: Chicago: University of Chicago press,

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What is the relation between gestures and speech? In terms of symbolic forms, of course, the spontaneous and unwitting gestures we make while talking differ sharply from spoken language itself. Whereas spoken language is linear, segmented, standardized, and arbitrary, gestures are global, synthetic, idiosyncratic, and imagistic. In Hand and Mind, David McNeill presents a bold theory of the essential unity of speech and the gestures that accompany it. This long-awaited, provocative study argues that the unity of gestures and language far exceeds the surface level of speech noted by previous researchers and in fact also includes the semantic and pragmatic levels of language. In effect, the whole concept of language must be altered to take into account the nonsegmented, instantaneous, and holistic images conveyed by gestures. McNeill and his colleagues carefully devised a standard methodology for examining the speech and gesture behavior of individuals engaged in narrative discourse. A research subject is shown a cartoon like the 1950 Canary Row--a classic Sylvester and Tweedy Bird caper that features Sylvester climbing up a downspout, swallowing a bowling ball and slamming into a brick wall. After watching the cartoon, the subject is videotaped recounting the story from memory to a listener who has not seen the cartoon. Painstaking analysis of the videotapes revealed that although the research subjects--children as well as adults, some neurologically impaired--represented a wide variety of linguistic groupings, the gestures of people speaking English and a half dozen other languages manifest the same principles. Relying on data from more than ten years of research, McNeill shows thatgestures do not simply form a part of what is said and meant but have an impact on thought itself. He persuasively argues that because gestures directly transfer mental images to visible forms, conveying ideas that language cannot always express, we must examine language and gesture.


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The Cambridge handbook of metaphor and thought
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ISBN: 9780521600866 9780521841061 9780511816802 9780511438080 0511438087 0511437412 9780511437410 9780511436734 0511436734 9786611903350 6611903356 0521600863 0521841062 0521841062 0521600863 1139931172 1107175070 1281903353 0511816804 0511435959 0511435169 Year: 2008 Publisher: New York, NY : Cambridge University Press,

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A comprehensive collection of essays in multidisciplinary metaphor scholarship that has been written in response to the growing interest among scholars and students from a variety of disciplines such as linguistics, philosophy, anthropology, music and psychology. These essays explore the significance of metaphor in language, thought, culture and artistic expression. There are five main themes of the book: the roots of metaphor, metaphor understanding, metaphor in language and culture, metaphor in reasoning and feeling, and metaphor in non-verbal expression. Contributors come from a variety of academic disciplines, including psychology, linguistics, philosophy, cognitive science, literature, education, music, and law.

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