This page provides a collection of audiovisual examples intended to accompany the book What it All Means, by Philippe Schlenker (MIT Press 2022). Examples are listed as they are referenced in the text. Additional information about some online resources cited in the text appear at the end, followed by corrections and errata.
Chapter 1 Meaning in the Wild
Chapter 2 Visible Logic: Sign Language and Pronouns
AV2.3.1
AV2.4.1
AV2.6.1 (external link)
Chapter 4 Nouns and Verbs: Objects and Events
AV4.2.1
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AV4.2.3
AV4.2.4
AV4.5.1 (external link)
AV4.5.2 (external link)
AV4.5.3 (external link)
AV4.5.4 (external link)
AV4.5.5 (external link)
AV4.5.6 (external link)
Chapter 5 Beyond the Here and Now I: From Objects to Situations
Examples of temporal expressions in Chinese Sign Language (referenced in Section 5.4; external link)
Chapter 10 Not Quite Saying It: Focus and Implicatures
Chapter 12 Iconicity Revisited: Sign with Iconicity vs. Speech with Gestures
Chapter 13 Grammar in Gestures
AV13.3.1
AV13.4.1
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AV13.5.1
Chapter 14 Meaning in Gestures
Chapter 15 Meaning in Music
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AV15.8.12 [Details about AV15.8.10, 11, 12]
Appendix Phonology, Morphology and Syntax in Speech and in Sign
AVApp.1 (external link)
AVApp.2 (external link)
AVApp.3 (external link)
AVApp.4 (external link)
Additional information about online resources cited in the text
Chapter 10, section 10.6, Krugman's tweet
Chapter 11, introduction, poll about Obama, see here for a quote.
Chapter 11, introduction, poll about Trump's impeachment proceedings, see here for a quote.
Presentations and reviews
CNRS's presentation of What it All Means
Marc van Oostendorp's review of What it All Means
Corrections and errata
Book jacket
Replace: Centre nationale de la recherche scientifique
with: Centre national de la recherche scientifique
p. 1 discretely -> discreetly
p. 13, 3rd paragraph: it is certain that Russian influenced -> Russia influenced
p. 22, beginning of Section 1.8
Replace: In 1876, the Linguistic Society of Paris famously prohibited any further debates on language evolution because this topic
with: In 1866, the Linguistic Society of Paris famously prohibited any submissions on language origin; this topic
p. 35, 2nd paragraph:
realm phonology -> realm of phonology