TY - BOOK ID - 77932914 TI - Metaphor and gesture AU - Cienki, Alan J. AU - Muller, Cornelia PY - 2008 SN - 1282104780 9786612104787 9027290806 9789027290809 9781282104785 6612104783 9789027228437 9027228434 PB - Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., DB - UniCat KW - Gesture. KW - Metaphor. KW - Parabole KW - Figures of speech KW - Reification KW - Mudra KW - Acting KW - Body language KW - Elocution KW - Movement (Acting) KW - Oratory KW - Sign language KW - Gesture KW - Metaphor KW - #KVHA:Amerikaanse gebarentaal KW - #KVHA:Meertalige communicatie KW - Semiotics KW - Lexicology. Semantics UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77932914 AB - This volume is the first to offer an overview on metaphor and gesture - a new multi-disciplinary area of research. Scholars of metaphor have been paying increasing attention to spontaneous gestures with speech; meanwhile, researchers in gesture studies have been focussing on the abstract ideas which receive physical representation through metaphors when speakers gesture. This book presents a snapshot of the state of the art in these converging fields, offering research papers as well as commentaries from multiple perspectives. In addition to conceptual metaphor theory it includes different theoretical approaches to semiotics, and the methods used range from controlled experimentation, to cognitive ethnography, to lexical semantic analysis. The use of metaphor in gesture is shown to reflect idiosyncracies of thought in the moment of speaking as well as structural, cultural, and interactional patterns. The series of commentaries discusses the potential importance of studying metaphor and gesture from the perspectives of such fields as anthropology, cognitive linguistics, conversation analysis, psychology, and semiotics. ER -