Geneviève Calbris

List of John Benjamins publications for which Geneviève Calbris plays a role.

Journal

Language, Interaction and Acquisition (LIA)

Edited by Sandra Benazzo, Marianne Gullberg, Henriëtte Hendriks and Georges Daniel Véronique

ISSN 1879-7865 | E-ISSN 1879-7873

Title

Elements of Meaning in Gesture

Geneviève Calbris

[Gesture Studies, 5] 2011. xx, 378 pp.

Subjects Cognition and language | Gesture Studies | Pragmatics

Articles

Calbris, Geneviève 2008 From left to right...: Coverbal gestures and their symbolic use of space Metaphor and Gesture, Cienki, Alan and Cornelia Müller (eds.), pp. 27–53 | Article

This study overlaps with Johnson’s (1987) ideas about the image schemas underlying thought, but rather than grasping them through the deductive analysis of verbal metaphors, they are approached here through the analysis of the symbolic components of gestures which, accompanying speech, refer to… read more

Calbris, Geneviève 2003 From cutting an object to a clear cut analysis: Gesture as the representation of a preconceptual schema linking concrete actions to abstract notions Gesture 3:1, pp. 19–46 | Article

The representation of the concrete world is an abstraction. The elements that are physically pertinent to reality are synthesized in a gestural, schematic and ergonomic representation. Although schematic, this representation is nuanced: the gestural variants are numerous in order to account for… read more