The Social Dynamics of Pronominal Systems: A comparative approach
Edited by Paul Bouissac
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 304] 2019. vi, 320 pp.
Paul Bouissac
List of John Benjamins publications for which Paul Bouissac plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Subjects Cognitive psychology | Communication Studies | Signed languages
2019 Introduction The Social Dynamics of Pronominal Systems: A comparative approach, Bouissac, Paul (ed.), pp. 1–15 | Introduction
2019 Chapter 6. Forms and functions of the French personal pronouns in social interactions and literary texts The Social Dynamics of Pronominal Systems: A comparative approach, Bouissac, Paul (ed.), pp. 133–150 | Chapter
The morphology and grammatical functions of French personal pronouns are first introduced with reference to their Latin origin in the context of the Indo-European language family. Considering that the forms of personal pronouns are necessarily grounded in the preliterate emergence of language and… read more
2008 The study of metaphor and gesture: A critique from the perspective of semiotics Metaphor and Gesture, Cienki, Alan and Cornelia Müller (eds.), pp. 277–282 | Article
2007 Putting grammaticalization to the iconicity test: A cognitivist perspective Insistent Images, Tabakowska, Elżbieta, Christina Ljungberg and Olga Fischer (eds.), pp. 17–35 | Article
This chapter questions the premises of the theory of grammaticalization which claims that “abstract” grammatical morphemes derive from “concrete” lexical items through a process of phonetic and semantic attrition. This theory generally assumes that language is grounded in iconicity. Thus,… read more
2006 Introduction: Gesture, ritual and memory Gesture, ritual and memory, Bouissac, Paul (ed.), pp. 171–176 | Article
2006 Gesture in evolutionary perspective Gesture, ritual and memory, Bouissac, Paul (ed.), pp. 189–204 | Article
Gesture is mostly a function of the upper limbs of Homo sapiens and is constrained by the skeleton and neuromuscular apparatus which have evolved under the selection pressures of arboreal environments. This article raises the issue of the early adaptations which determined the range of movements… read more
2005 Iconicity or iconization? Probing the dynamic interface between language and perception Outside-In — Inside-Out, Maeder, Costantino, Olga Fischer and William J. Herlofsky (eds.), pp. 15–37 | Article