Words, gestures, and beyond: Forms of multimodal metaphor in the use of spoken language

Multimodal Metaphor

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 297-328

  Müller, Cornelia ^a   Cienki, Alan ^b  

^a EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY VIADRINA   (Germany)

^b VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Activation of metaphoricity, gestures, gestural metaphors, thinking for speaking and gesturing; Monomodal metaphors; Multimodal metaphor; Verbal metaphors; Verbo gestural metaphors

Indexed keywords

EID: 85039845369     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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