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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Association Française de Linguistique Cognitive
2011-05-01
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Series: | CogniTextes |
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Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/cognitextes/406 |