Essays about: "bodily mimesis"

Found 1 essay containing the words bodily mimesis.

  1. 1. From Unisemiotic to Polysemiotic Narratives: Translating across semiotic systems

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Språk och språkvetenskap

    Author : Karoliina Louhema; [2018]
    Keywords : bodily mimesis; cognitive semiotics; co-speech gestures; embodied narratives; experientiality; iconicity; ideophones; intersemiotic translation; language; mimetic schema; multimodality; narratives; phenomenology; pictorial semiotics; pictures; polysemiotic communication; semiotics; semiotic systems; sensory modalities; signs; sound symbolism; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : Human communication is both polysemiotic and multimodal; it is comprised of ensembles of representations from different semiotic systems in different sensory modalities. These semiotic systems, such as language, gestures, and pictures consist of signs and relations between signs, with system-specific affordances (Kendon, 2004; Zlatev, 2009; Sonesson, 2014). READ MORE