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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
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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