Construal of manner in speech and gesture in Mandarin, English, and Japanese

Cognitive Linguistics

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 605-631

  Brown, Amanda ^a   Chen, Jidong ^b  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

English; gesture; Japanese; Mandarin Chinese; manner; motion event construal; typology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890071007     PISSN: 09365907     EISSN: 16133641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/cog-2013-0021     Document Type: Article

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