Elisabeth Wehling
List of John Benjamins publications for which Elisabeth Wehling plays a role.
Articles
2017. Pragmatics of Gesture: Papers from a conference, January 2013, University of California, Berkeley. Gesture 16:2
Subsection
2017. Discourse management gestures. Gesture 16:2, pp. 245–276
Gestures that are used by interlocutors to manage the gist of their ‘discourse interactions’, namely content exchange and floor taking, can have one of two very different pragmatic functions: to signal inclusion and cooperation in friendly conversation, or to establish control in more argumentative… read more | Article
2016. Moral disgust at its best: The important role of low-level mappings and structural parallelism in political disgust and disease metaphors. Metaphor and Communication, Gola, Elisabetta and Francesca Ervas (eds.), pp. 189–200
Conceptual metaphoric mappings – i.e., the comprehension of one, often
abstract, domain of reasoning in terms of another – are a common means of framing
political issues, with direct fallouts for the electorate’s decision-making (e.g.
Landau, Sullivan, & Greenberg 2009; Thibodeau & Boroditsky 2011). read more | Article