Cognitive iconicity: conceptual spaces, meaning, and gesture in signed languages
Año:
2004
Editorial:
Cognitive Linguistics Vol. 15, nº 2 (2004) pp. 119-147
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Código:
1613-3641
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Temas
Educación » Aspectos psicológicos y cognitivos, Lingüística, Lingüística » Lingüística de otras Lenguas de Signos
Detalles
Adopting the framework of cognitive grammar, I define cognitive iconicity as a special case in which the phonological and the semantic poles of a symbolic structure resude in the same region of conceptual space. One reason for the richness of iconic representation present in signed languages is that the phonological pole of signs involver objects moving in space as viewed from a certain vantage point: hands moving in space as viewed by the signer and the observer.