Putting the cyclic gesture on a cognitive basis

In this paper we describe the cognitive model that governs the forms and uses of the cyclic gesture, recurrent in a corpus of spontaneous German conversations. The gesture shows a stable form-meaning relationship: The continuous circular outward movement correlates with the semantic core of cyclic c...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Silva H. Ladewig
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association Française de Linguistique Cognitive 2011-05-01
Series:CogniTextes
Subjects:
ICM
Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/cognitextes/406