In:Metaphor and Gesture
Edited by Alan Cienki and Cornelia Müller
[Gesture Studies 3] 2008
► pp. v–vi
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Published online: 4 June 2008
https://doi.org/10.1075/gs.3.toc
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Table of contents
Contributors
Acknowledgementsix
Introduction
Why study metaphor and gesture?
From left to right...: Coverbal gestures and their symbolic use of space
Gesture as a conceptual mapping tool
A fresh look at the foundations of mathematics: Gesture and the psychological reality of conceptual metaphor
Peircean semiotics meets conceptual metaphor: Iconic modes in gestural representations of grammar
Unexpected metaphors
Catchment, growth point and spatial metaphor: Analysing Derrida's oral discourse on deconstruction
Form, meaning, and convention: A comparison of a metaphoric gesture with an emblem
What gestures reveal about the nature of metaphor
Commentaries on the value of studying metaphor and gesture from the perspectives of different disciplines247
Metaphoric gesture and cognitive linguistics
Metaphoric gestures and cultural analysis
Metaphor and gesture: A view from the microanalysis of interaction
Implications of cognitive metaphor and gesture studies for Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis and vice versa
Sign and gesture: Towards a new paradigm
The study of metaphor and gesture: A critique from the perspective of semiotics
The neuroscience of metaphoric gestures: Why they exist
Metaphor and gesture: Some implications for psychology
Index
