Указание большим пальцем: основные лингвистические функции <br>(The linguistic functions of thumb pointing)
Author(s) -
Elena Grishina
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
poljarnyj vestnik
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1890-9671
pISSN - 1500-7502
DOI - 10.7557/6.2414
Subject(s) - thumb , function (biology) , linguistics , alienation , object (grammar) , rule of thumb , computer science , psychology , political science , philosophy , medicine , algorithm , law , anatomy , evolutionary biology , biology
This study analyzes the main linguistic meanings of thumb pointing in Russian. The author uses A. Kendon's methodology as a basis and supplements it with statistical analysis and with data from the Multimodal Russian Corpus (MURCO). The main functions of thumb pointing in Russian include the anaphoric function, functions of activation and alienation of the pointed object, and the contrasting function
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