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Languages as semiotically heterogenous systems
1Division 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.
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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