Metaphor and Gesture; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Why study metaphor and gesture?; From left to right ... ; Gesture as a conceptual mapping tool; A fresh look at the...
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Metaphor and Gesture; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Why study metaphor and gesture?; From left to right ... ; Gesture as a conceptual mapping tool; A fresh look at the foundations of mathematics; Peircean semiotics meets conceptual metaphor; Unexpected metaphors; Catchment, growth point, and spatial metaphor; Form, meaning, and convention; What gestures reveal about the nature of metaphor; Commentaries on the value of studying metaphor and gesture from the perspectives of different disciplines; Index. Studying gestures in language use offers the opportunity to uncover fundamental properties of metaphor which so far have received little interest - if at all. This is a shift towards studying metaphor as it is used, and it has important theoretical consequences because it reveals that metaphoricity is dynamic; it indicates that the speaker establishes or creates metaphoricity online through a general cognitive process, which is in principle modality independent. These facets of metaphor were uncovered through linguistic microanalyses of multi-modal segments of talk or discourse. Online cogniti
Metaphor and Gesture; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Why study metaphor and gesture?; From left to right ... ; Gesture as a conceptual mapping tool; A fresh look at the foundations of mathematics; Peircean semiotics meets conceptual metaphor; Unexpected metaphors; Catchment, growth point, and spatial metaphor; Form, meaning, and convention; What gestures reveal about the nature of metaphor; Commentaries on the value of studying metaphor and gesture from the perspectives of different disciplines; Index
