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Semiotics of French Gestures

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ISBN-10: 0253312973

ISBN-13: 9780253312976

Edition: 1990

Authors: Genevieve Calbris

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Description:

Everyone gestures while speaking, in a specific and generally unconscious manner. What are the functions of gestures? What relationship do they have to speech? How do gestures work to create meaning? In this valuable book, GeneviA]ve Calbris undertakes to answer those questions. Based on the author's own extensive experimental research, The Semiotics of French Gestures presents a systematic description and a detailed semiotic analysis of French gestures. The book aims to establish a structual semantics of the set of gestures and facial expressions that accompany or replace spoken language. As this book demonstrates, the study of gesturing is indispensable to a full understanding of a…    
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Book details

List price: $55.95
Copyright year: 1990
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 4/22/1990
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 260
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English