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Publication details [#44678]

Corts, Daniel P. 2006. Factors characterizing bursts of figurative language and gesture in college lectures. Discourse Studies 8 (2) : 211–233.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

academic language | figurative speech | gesture | lecture

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper tries to offer a more detailed description of the often simultaneous appearance of figurative language and gesture in 'bursts' (Corts and Pollio, 1999) in academic discourse.