THE ROLE OF GESTURES IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF MULTIMODAL METAPHORS: analysis of a political-electoral debate

This paper intends to analyze the role of gestures in the construction of multimodal metaphors in the "political-electoral debate" genre. Theoretically, we considered that metaphoric gestures can be analyzed as expressions of conceptual metaphors. We mainly approached and illustrated the i...

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Published in:	Revista Brasileira de Linguística Aplicada
Main Authors:	Maíra Avelar Miranda, Paulo Henrique Aguiar Mendes
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Subjects:	Multimodal metaphors Metaphoric gestures Political-electoral Debates
Online Access:	http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1984-63982015000200343&lng=en&tlng=en