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Meaning After the Multimodal Revolution: Seven Things Signs and Gestures Teach Us About Meaning

Philippe Schlenker1

  • 1Institut Jean Nicod (CNRS, ENS-PSL, EHESS), Paris, France.

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews. Cognitive Science
|October 27, 2026
PubMed

Keywords:
gesturesiconicitymultimodalitysemanticssign language

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