Cienki A., Muller C. (eds.) Metaphor and Gesture

Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2008. - 307 p.Edited By Alan Cienki and Cornelia Muller, the article collection dwells upon the notion of metaphor, especially from the point of view of cognitive linguistics.Why study metaphor and gesture?
From left to right. : Coverbal gestures and their symbolic use of space.
Gesture as a conceptual mapping tool.
A fresh look at the foundations of mathematics: Gesture and the psychological reality of conceptual metaphor.
Peircean semiotics meets conceptual metaphor: Iconic modes in gestural representations of grammar.
Unexpected metaphors.
Catchment, growth point, and spatial metaphor: Analyzing Derrida’s oral discourse on deconstruction.
Form, meaning, and convention: A comparison of a metaphoric gesture with an emblem.
What gestures reveal about the nature of metaphor.
Metaphoric gesture and cognitive linguistics.
Metaphoric gestures and cultural analysis.
Metaphor and gesture: A view from the microanalysis of interaction.
Implications of cognitive metaphor and gesture studies for Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis and vice versa.
Sign and gesture: Towards a new paradigm.
The study of metaphor and gesture: A critique from the perspective of semiotics.
The neuroscience of metaphoric gestures: Why they exist.
Metaphor and gesture: Some implications for psychology.