Description

• Title:
  Insights on the nature of language from the study of gesture units
• Creator:
  Cienki, Alan
• Contributor:
  Badio, Janusz;
  Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands & Moscow State Linguistic University, Russia
• Description:
  Gesture categories and gesture units are characterized according to both formal and functional criteria. The resultant functional types fall along a continuum according to the degree to which their tokens have conventionalized symbolic status. The more conventional the form/meaning pairing, the more straightforward it is to identify gestures as units. Most types of gesture categories are best viewed as having prototype structures, rather than a category structure with strict boundaries. This view on gesture aligns with some contemporary thinking about linguistic categories, which also espouses a prototype approach. The result is a coherent picture of how gesture interactions with different categories and units of spoken language, taking human audio-visual communication as dynamic and polysemiotic in nature.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 ;
  Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Międzynarodowe
• Date:
  2021.02.01;
  2020
• Type:
  Book chapter
• Language:
  English
• Format:
  application/pdf;
  image/jpeg
• Publisher:
  Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Relation:
  Categories and Units in Language and Linguistics;;
  Łódzkie Studia z Językoznawstwa Angielskiego i Ogólnego;10
• Subject:
  gesture;
  prototype categories;
  semiotic systems
• Identifier:
  Cienki, A. (2020). Insights on the nature of language from the study of gesture units. In. J. Badio (Ed.), Categories and Units in Language and Linguistics, (pp. 33-42). Łódź–Kraków–Wałbrzych: WUŁ–Agent PR–Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Zawodowa im. Angelusa Silesiusa, http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/8142-988-7.04;
  978-83-8142-988-7;
  http://hdl.handle.net/11089/33262 ;
  978-83-8142-989-4;
  10.18778/8142-988-7.04
• Data provider:
  Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
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  seek permission
• Type:
  text