This paper lays out the foundations of a frame-based account of gesture pragmatics through detailing how frames and metonymy interact not only in motivating gestural sign formation, but also in guiding crossmodal processes of pragmatic inferencing. It is argued that gestures recruiting frame structures tend to profile deeply embodied, routinized aspects of scenes (in the Fillmorian sense of the term), that is, of the motivating context of frames. Two kinds of embodied frame structures situated at different levels of abstraction, schematicity, and entrechment are proposed: (A) Basic physical action and object frames understood as directly experientially grounded frames involving physical action and interaction with the material and social world; (B) Complex, highly abstract frame structures that are more detached from the motivating contexts of experience. It is further suggested that gestures exhibiting a comparably low degree of iconicity and/or indexicality are likely to assume pragmatic rather than referential functions. Finally, potential avenues for further research into the relation of scenes, frames, and (multimodal) constructions are outlined.

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体现框架和场景

本文通过详细说明框架和转喻如何相互作用，不仅在激发手势符号形成方面，而且在指导语用推理的跨模态过程中，奠定了基于框架的手势语用学解释的基础。有人认为，招募框架结构的手势倾向于描绘场景的深层体现、常规化方面（在该术语的菲尔莫尔意义上），即框架的激励上下文。提出了两种位于不同抽象、图解性和巩固层次的具身框架结构：（A）基本物理行为和对象框架被理解为直接经验基础的框架，涉及物理行为以及与物质和社会世界的互动；(B) 复杂，高度抽象的框架结构，更脱离经验的激励背景。进一步表明，表现出相对较低程度的象似性和/或索引性的手势可能具有实用功能而不是指称功能。最后，概述了进一步研究场景、框架和（多模态）结构之间关系的潜在途径。