Gestural Ways of Depicting Metaphors and Abstract Concepts
The aim of the article is to present ways in which gestures combine with the verbal layer of an utterance, thus reflecting embodied thinking and the rooting of abstract concepts in human bodily experience. The article discusses two different ways in which gestures, described in the literature as met...
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| description | The aim of the article is to present ways in which gestures combine with the verbal layer of an utterance, thus reflecting embodied thinking and the rooting of abstract concepts in human bodily experience. The article discusses two different ways in which gestures, described in the literature as metaphoric, illustrate both linguistically expressed metaphors and abstract concepts that are not verbally expressed as metaphors. The data analyzed in this paper have been taken from speeches of politicians and other public figures. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-564e95908b384360b61624a5f77bd51d2025-01-20T11:10:12ZengSciendoStudies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric2199-60592024-12-016919511110.2478/slgr-2024-0008Gestural Ways of Depicting Metaphors and Abstract ConceptsKraśnicka Izabela0Jagiellonian University Cracow, Cracow, PolandThe aim of the article is to present ways in which gestures combine with the verbal layer of an utterance, thus reflecting embodied thinking and the rooting of abstract concepts in human bodily experience. The article discusses two different ways in which gestures, described in the literature as metaphoric, illustrate both linguistically expressed metaphors and abstract concepts that are not verbally expressed as metaphors. The data analyzed in this paper have been taken from speeches of politicians and other public figures.https://doi.org/10.2478/slgr-2024-0008metaphoric gesturesiconic gesturesmetaphorgesticulationconversationthinking-for-speaking |
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| title | Gestural Ways of Depicting Metaphors and Abstract Concepts |
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| title_fullStr | Gestural Ways of Depicting Metaphors and Abstract Concepts |
| title_full_unstemmed | Gestural Ways of Depicting Metaphors and Abstract Concepts |
| title_short | Gestural Ways of Depicting Metaphors and Abstract Concepts |
| title_sort | gestural ways of depicting metaphors and abstract concepts |
| topic | metaphoric gestures iconic gestures metaphor gesticulation conversation thinking-for-speaking |
| url | https://doi.org/10.2478/slgr-2024-0008 |
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