Paul Bouissac

List of John Benjamins publications in which Paul Bouissac is involved.

Titles

The Social Dynamics of Pronominal Systems: A comparative approach

Edited by Paul Bouissac

Personal pronouns have a special status in languages. As indexical tools they are the means by which languages and persons intimately interface with each other within a particular social structure. Pronouns involve more than mere grammatical functions in live communication acts. They variously… read more

[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 304] 2019. vi, 320 pp.

Gesture, ritual and memory

Edited by Paul Bouissac

Special issue of Gesture 6:2 (2006) vi, 123 pp.

Bouissac, Paul 2019 Introduction The Social Dynamics of Pronominal Systems: A comparative approach, Bouissac, Paul (ed.), pp. 1–15 | Introduction

Bouissac, Paul 2019 Chapter 6. Forms and functions of the French personal pronouns in social interactions and literary texts The Social Dynamics of Pronominal Systems: A comparative approach, Bouissac, Paul (ed.), pp. 133–150 | Chapter

The morphology and grammatical functions of French personal pronouns are first introduced with reference to their Latin origin in the context of the Indo-European language family. Considering that the forms of personal pronouns are necessarily grounded in the preliterate emergence of language and… read more

Bouissac, Paul 2008 The study of metaphor and gesture: A critique from the perspective of semiotics Metaphor and Gesture, Cienki, Alan and Cornelia Müller (eds.), pp. 277–282 | Article

Bouissac, Paul 2007 Putting grammaticalization to the iconicity test: A cognitivist perspective Insistent Images, Tabakowska, Elżbieta, Christina Ljungberg and Olga Fischer (eds.), pp. 17–35 | Article

This chapter questions the premises of the theory of grammaticalization which claims that “abstract” grammatical morphemes derive from “concrete” lexical items through a process of phonetic and semantic attrition. This theory generally assumes that language is grounded in iconicity. Thus,… read more

Bouissac, Paul 2006 Introduction: Gesture, ritual and memory Gesture, ritual and memory, Bouissac, Paul (ed.), pp. 171–176 | Article

Bouissac, Paul 2006 Gesture in evolutionary perspective Gesture, ritual and memory, Bouissac, Paul (ed.), pp. 189–204 | Article

Gesture is mostly a function of the upper limbs of Homo sapiens and is constrained by the skeleton and neuromuscular apparatus which have evolved under the selection pressures of arboreal environments. This article raises the issue of the early adaptations which determined the range of movements… read more

Bouissac, Paul 2005 Iconicity or iconization? Probing the dynamic interface between language and perception Outside-In — Inside-Out, Maeder, Costantino, Olga Fischer and William J. Herlofsky (eds.), pp. 15–37 | Article