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Good things come in threes: Communicative acts comprise linguistic, imagistic, and modifying components

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 April 2017

Lena Kästner  and
Albert Newen
Lena Kästner
Affiliation:
Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, 10099 Berlin, Germany. [email protected]/
Albert Newen
Affiliation:
Institut für Philosophie II, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, 44780 Bochum, Germany. [email protected]/philosophy/staff/newen/
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Abstract

Gesture and sign form an integrated communication system, as do gesture and speech. Communicative acts in both systems combine categorical linguistic (words or signs) with imagistic (gestures) components. Additionally, both sign and speech can employ modifying components that convey iconic information tied to a linguistic base morpheme. An accurate analysis of communicative acts must take this third category into account.

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Open Peer Commentary
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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 40 , 2017 , e58
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2017 

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