Conceptual metaphors in gesture
Abstract
This study investigates metaphoric gestures in face-to-face conversation. It is found that gestures of this kind are mainly performed in the central gesture space with noticeable and discernable configurations, providing visible evidence for cross-domain cognitive mappings and the grounding of conceptual metaphors in people's recurrent bodily experiences and in what people habitually do in social and cultural practices. Moreover, whether metaphorical thinking is conveyed by gesture exclusively or along with metaphoric speech, the manual enactment of even conventional metaphors manifests dynamism in communicating metaphors. Metaphoric gestures can provide salient, additional information about the aspect of the conceptualization which is the speaker's focus of attention in real-time multimodal communication.
© 2011 Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin/Boston
Articles in the same Issue
- Conceptual metaphors in gesture
- Does framing work? An empirical study of Simplifying Models for sustainable food production
- Phonological similarity in multi-word units
- Secondary determiners as markers of generalized instantiation in English noun phrases
- The Self in Arabic and the Relativism-Universalism Controversy
- Form and function in Irish child directed speech
- Beijing Olympics and Beijing opera: A multimodal metaphor in a CCTV Olympics commercial
Articles in the same Issue
- Conceptual metaphors in gesture
- Does framing work? An empirical study of Simplifying Models for sustainable food production
- Phonological similarity in multi-word units
- Secondary determiners as markers of generalized instantiation in English noun phrases
- The Self in Arabic and the Relativism-Universalism Controversy
- Form and function in Irish child directed speech
- Beijing Olympics and Beijing opera: A multimodal metaphor in a CCTV Olympics commercial
