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Embodied frames and scenes

Body-based metonymy and pragmatic inferencing in gesture

 | RWTH Aachen University
Published online: 12 January 2018
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https://doi.org/10.1075/gest.16.2.03mit
Abstract
This paper lays out the foundations of a frame-based account of gesture pragmatics through detailing how frames and metonymy interact not only in motivating gestural sign formation, but also in guiding crossmodal processes of pragmatic inferencing. It is argued that gestures recruiting frame structures tend to profile deeply embodied, routinized aspects of scenes (in the Fillmorian sense of the term), that is, of the motivating context of frames. Two kinds of embodied frame structures situated at different levels of abstraction, schematicity, and entrechment are proposed: (A) Basic physical action and object frames understood as directly experientially grounded frames involving physical action and interaction with the material and social world; (B) Complex, highly abstract frame structures that are more detached from the motivating contexts of experience. It is further suggested that gestures exhibiting a comparably low degree of iconicity and/or indexicality are likely to assume pragmatic rather than referential functions. Finally, potential avenues for further research into the relation of scenes, frames, and (multimodal) constructions are outlined.
Article outline
  • Introduction
    • Frames, scenes, and metonymy: Seizing the pragmatically minded nature of gesture
    • Hands framing New York Harbor from Pier 18
  • Embodied frames and scenes: Theoretical premises and some tendencies in their gestural evocation
    • Basic and more complex frame structures: A first characterization
    • Scenes and their relevance for gesture
  • Towards a frame-based account of gesture pragmatics
    • Basic physical action and object frames
    • Complex, highly abstract frame structures
    • Summary of observations and proposals
  • Body-based metonymy and gesture pragmatics
    • Cognitive/experiential/functional DOMAINS
    • FRAMES and frame metonymy
    • Contiguity relations operationalized in gesture
  • Crossmodal pragmatic inferencing and bodily reference points
    • From reference to pragmatic inferencing in multimodal discourse
    • Muted degrees of iconicity/indexicality and resulting pragmatic functions
  • Conclusion and outlook
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
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