Everyone gestures while speaking, in a specific and generally unconscious manner. What are the functions of gestures? What relationship do they have to speech? How do gestures work to create meaning? In this valuable book, Genevieve Calbris undertakes to answer those questions. Based on the author's own extensive experimental research, The Semiotics of French Gestures presents a systematic description and a detailed semiotic analysis of French gestures. The book aims to establish a structual semantics of the set of gestures and facial expressions that accompany or replace spoken language. As this book demonstrates, the study of gesturing is indispensable to a full understanding of a foreign language and its use in real-life situations. The Semiotics of French Gestures will be a valuable source for scholars and students of communication, semiotics, linguistics, and languages.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Indiana University Press
ISBN-13
9780253312976
eBay Product ID (ePID)
105842057
Product Key Features
Book Title
The Semiotics of French Gestures
Author
Genevieve Calbris
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
1990
Number of Pages
260 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm
Item Weight
626g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Genevieve Calbris
Series Title
Open Indiana
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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