The Impulse to Gesture: Where Language, Minds, and Bodies Intersect

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Gestures are central to the way people use language when they interact. This book places our impulse to gesture at the very heart of linguistic structure: grammar. Based on the phenomenon of negation - a linguistic universal with clear grammatical and gestural manifestations - Simon Harrison argues that linguistic concepts are fundamentally multi modal and shows how they lead to recurrent bindings between grammar and gesture when people speak. Studying...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1108417205

ISBN13:9781108417204

Release Date:October 2018

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:248 Pages

Weight:1.15 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.4" x 9.2"

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Language Arts

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