Insights on the nature of language from the study of gesture units

Cienki, Alan

dc.contributor.author	Cienki, Alan
dc.contributor.editor	Badio, Janusz
dc.date.accessioned	2021-02-01T12:23:21Z
dc.date.available	2021-02-01T12:23:21Z
dc.date.issued	2020
dc.identifier.citation	Cienki, A. (2020). Insights on the nature of language from the study of gesture units. In. J. Badio (Ed.), Categories and Units in Language and Linguistics, (pp. 33-42). Łódź–Kraków–Wałbrzych: WUŁ–Agent PR–Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Zawodowa im. Angelusa Silesiusa, http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/8142-988-7.04	pl_PL
dc.identifier.isbn	978-83-8142-988-7
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11089/33262
dc.description.abstract	Gesture categories and gesture units are characterized according to both formal and functional criteria. The resultant functional types fall along a continuum according to the degree to which their tokens have conventionalized symbolic status. The more conventional the form/meaning pairing, the more straightforward it is to identify gestures as units. Most types of gesture categories are best viewed as having prototype structures, rather than a category structure with strict boundaries. This view on gesture aligns with some contemporary thinking about linguistic categories, which also espouses a prototype approach. The result is a coherent picture of how gesture interactions with different categories and units of spoken language, taking human audio-visual communication as dynamic and polysemiotic in nature.	pl_PL
dc.language.iso	en	pl_PL
dc.publisher	Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego	pl_PL
dc.relation.ispartof	Categories and Units in Language and Linguistics;
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Łódzkie Studia z Językoznawstwa Angielskiego i Ogólnego;10
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dc.subject	gesture	pl_PL
dc.subject	prototype categories	pl_PL
dc.subject	semiotic systems	pl_PL
dc.title	Insights on the nature of language from the study of gesture units	pl_PL
dc.type	Book chapter	pl_PL
dc.page.number	33-42	pl_PL
dc.contributor.authorAffiliation	Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Netherlands & Moscow State Linguistic University, Russia	pl_PL
dc.identifier.eisbn	978-83-8142-989-4
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dc.identifier.doi	10.18778/8142-988-7.04