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Publication details [#3510]
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
ISBN
9789027228437
Abstract
This volume is the first to offer an overview on metaphor and gesture — a new multi-disciplinary area of research. Scholars of metaphor have been paying increasing attention to spontaneous gestures with speech; meanwhile, researchers in gesture studies have been focussing on the abstract ideas which receive physical representation through metaphors when speakers gesture. This book presents a snapshot of the state of the art in these converging fields, offering research papers as well as commentaries from multiple perspectives. In addition to conceptual metaphor theory it includes different theoretical approaches to semiotics, and the methods used range from controlled experimentation, to cognitive ethnography, to lexical semantic analysis. The use of metaphor in gesture is shown to reflect idiosyncracies of thought in the moment of speaking as well as structural, cultural, and interactional patterns. The series of commentaries discusses the potential importance of studying metaphor and gesture from the perspectives of such fields as anthropology, cognitive linguistics, conversation analysis, psychology, and semiotics.
(Publisher Book Description)
Contributors vii–viii
Acknowledgements ix
Introduction
Alan Cienki and Cornelia Müller 1–4
Why study metaphor and gesture?
Alan Cienki 5–25
From left to right...: Coverbal gestures and their symbolic use of space
Geneviève Calbris 27–53
Gesture as a conceptual mapping tool
Robert F. Williams 55–92
Rafael Núñez 93–114
Irene Mittelberg 115–154
Unexpected metaphors
David McNeill 155–170
Catchment, growth point and spatial metaphor: Analysing Derrida's oral discourse on deconstruction
Jacques Montredon, Abderrahim Amrani, Marie-Paule Benoit-Barnet, Emmanuelle Chan You, Régine Llorca and Nancy Peuteuil 171–194
Form, meaning, and convention: A comparison of a metaphoric gesture with an emblem
Fey Parrill 195–217
What gestures reveal about the nature of metaphor
Cornelia Müller 219–245
Commentaries on the value of studying metaphor and gesture from the perspectives of different disciplines 247
Metaphoric gesture and cognitive linguistics
Ronald W. Langacker 249–251
Metaphoric gestures and cultural analysis
Naomi Quinn 253–257
Jürgen Streeck 259–264
Implications of cognitive metaphor and gesture studies for Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis and vice versa
Anders Hougaard and Gitte R. Hougaard 265–272
Sherman Wilcox 273–275
Paul Bouissac 277–282
George Lakoff 283–289
Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr. 291–301
Index 303–306
Articles in this volume
. A fresh look at the foundations of mathematics: Gesture and the psychological reality of conceptual metaphor 93–114 ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
. Peircean semiotics meets conceptual metaphor: Iconic modes in gestural representations of grammar 115–154 ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
. Catchment, growth point, and spatial metaphor: Analyzing Derrida's oral discourse on deconstruction 171–194 ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
. Metaphor and gesture: A view from the microanalysis of interaction (Comment on Cienki and Müller, eds. 2008) 259–264 ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
. Implications of cognitive metaphor and gesture studies for Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis and vice versa (Comment on Cienki and Müller, eds. 2008) 265–272 ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)