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Languages as semiotically heterogenous systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 April 2017

Adam Kendon
Adam Kendon*
Affiliation:
Division of Biological Anthropology, Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge University, Cambridge, CB1 3JP, England, United Kingdom; 2, Orchard Estate, Cherry Hinton, Cambridge CB1 3JP, United Kingdom. adamk@dca.net
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Abstract

The target article is consistent with seeing languages as semiotically heterogenous, using categorial, depictive, and analogic semiotic signs. “Gesture,” used in the target article, is shown to be vague and not useful. Kendon's view, criticised in the target, is restated. His proposal for comparative semiotic analyses of how visible bodily action is used in utterance production is reexplained.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 40 , 2017 , e59
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