Iconicity as a communicative strategy: Recipient design in multimodal demonstrations for adults and children

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 14-27

  Campisi, Emanuela ^a   özyürek, Asli ^a,b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Child directed communication; Demonstration; Gesture; Natural pedagogy; Recipient design

Indexed keywords

EID: 84873733625     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2012.12.007     Document Type: Article

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