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Publication details [#25497]
Payrato, Lluis. 1993. A pragmatic view on autonomous gestures: A first repertoire of Catalan emblems. Journal of Pragmatics 20 (3) : 193–216.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0378-2166
Journal WWW
Annotation
This article aims at establishing a first basic repertoire of Catalan emblematic gestures, i.e. a set of nonverbal codes complementing and/or substituting the verbal code, whilst discussing factors which participate in the classification of the items and which may shed light on the conventionalization process from gesture to emblem.