ABSTRACT

Among the repertoires of vernacular expression available for storytelling are gestural icons, called iconics, and gestural metaphors, called metaphorics in the terminology of David McNeill. Gesture analysts take such co-speech gestures as visual representations of visible phenomena but because they are body movements, all gestures impart tactile-kinesthetic qualities to expressive acts. They are thinking made perceptible outside the body and so disclose our corporeal investment in conceptualizing things. Gestures participate in a sensory ecology that interconnects visual, tactile, and kinesthetic perceptions with words in stories as well as with the worlds the stories conjure up. They are synesthetic holds on imaginary realities.

摘要

在白话的表达可叙述故事的剧目是手势图标，叫ICONICS，和手势的比喻，叫做metaphorics在戴维·麦克尼尔的术语。手势分析人员采用共语音手势，例如可见现象的视觉表示，但由于它们是人体运动，因此所有手势都将表情动觉特质赋予了表现行为。他们认为自己在体外可以感知​​，因此公开了我们在概念化事物上的重要投资。手势参与了一种感官生态，将视觉，触觉和动觉知觉与故事中的单词以及故事所幻化的世界联系在一起。它们是对虚构现实的综合持有。