The study of metaphor and gesture: A critique from the perspective of semiotics

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Contributors vii
4. Acknowledgements ix
5. Introduction 1
6. Why study metaphor and gesture? 5
7. From left to right...: Coverbal gestures and their symbolic use of space 27
8. Gesture as a conceptual mapping tool 55
9. A fresh look at the foundations of mathematics: Gesture and the psychological reality of conceptual metaphor 93
10. Peircean semiotics meets conceptual metaphor: Iconic modes in gestural representations of grammar 115
11. Unexpected metaphors 155
12. Catchment, growth point and spatial metaphor: Analysing Derrida's oral discourse on deconstruction 171
13. Form, meaning, and convention: A comparison of a metaphoric gesture with an emblem 195
14. What gestures reveal about the nature of metaphor 219
15. Commentaries on the value of studying metaphor and gesture from the perspectives of different disciplines
16. Metaphoric gesture and cognitive linguistics 249
17. Metaphoric gestures and cultural analysis 253
18. Metaphor and gesture: A view from the microanalysis of interaction 259
19. Implications of cognitive metaphor and gesture studies for Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis and vice versa 265
20. Sign and gesture: Towards a new paradigm 273
21. The study of metaphor and gesture: A critique from the perspective of semiotics 277
22. The neuroscience of metaphoric gestures: Why they exist 283
23. Metaphor and gesture: Some implications for psychology 291
24. Index 303