10 August 2024

Confusing Semantic Figures With The Gestures That Realise Them

Ngo, Hood, Martin, Painter, Smith & Zappavigna (2022: 100):

In order to explore paralinguistic entities in more detail it is necessary to consider how they enter into paralinguistic figures in discourse. This will enable us to account for how paralinguistic entities are variously manifested, or presented as relating to other paralinguistic entities, and/or involved in actions or happenings in the discourse.


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As previously explained, the term 'paralinguistic entity' confuses discourse semantics (entity) with paralanguage misunderstood as an expression-only semiotic system. Here the authors further introduce the term 'paralinguistic figure' which again confuses discourse semantics (figure) with paralanguage misunderstood as an expression-only semiotic system

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