Metaphors and blending in Italian Sign Language discourse: A window on the interaction of language and thought

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1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements VII
3. Contents IX
4. Foreword XIII
5. Introduction: Examining signed language and gesture research within the domain of cognitive linguistics 1
6. I Guiding principles for signed and spoken language research
7. Through the signed language glass: Changing and converging views in spoken and signed language research 23
8. Coming back to the issue of the graphic representation of signed language discourse in signed language linguistics 49
9. What is a language? A socio-semiotic approach to signed and spoken languages 75
10. II Iconicity in spoken and signed language
11. Structure, iconicity, and access 105
12. When hands are things and movements are processes: Cognitive iconicity, embodied cognition, and signed language structure 127
13. III Multimodality
14. Gestural meaning is in the body(-space) as much as in the hands 157
15. A Place for joint action in multimodal constructions 181
16. What I know is here; what I don’t know is somewhere else: Deixis and gesture spaces in American Sign Language and Irish Sign Language 211
17. Insights on the use of narrative perspectives in signed and spoken discourse in Quebec Sign Language, American Sign Language, and Quebec French 243
18. IV Blending and metaphor
19. Exploring Real Space blends as indicators of discourse complexity in Swedish Sign Language 275
20. Metaphors and blending in Italian Sign Language discourse: A window on the interaction of language and thought 303
21. V Grammatical constructions
22. The mouth shrug and facial consent in Danish Sign Language 329
23. Usage-based grammar: Multi-word expressions in American Sign Language 357
24. Possibility modals in Brazilian Sign Language and Argentine Sign Language: A contrastive study 389
25. The semantics of relative clause constructions in Iranian Sign Language 417
26. VI Concluding commentary
27. Language in the light of sign and gesture 443
28. Index 463