Cognitive iconicity: Conceptual spaces, meaning, and gesture in signed languages

Cognitive Linguistics

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 119-147

  Wilcox, Sherman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

Gesture; Iconicity; Signed language

Indexed keywords

EID: 15244349326     PISSN: 09365907     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/cogl.2004.005     Document Type: Article

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