Metonimia gestyczna .......... 25

GESTURAL METONYMY 

The article deals with the issue of meanings expressed by gestures, taking into account the relationships that connect two figures of thought - metaphor and metonymy - whose presence in the gestures accompanying speech is discussed vividly in the literature on the subject. The authors assume that there is a close correlation between the word and the gesture in creating the semantics of an utterance, putting forward the thesis that the gestures accompanying metaphorical linguistic expressions refer to a metonymic basis, i.e. they visually point to the bodily-manual experiential sources of verbal metaphors. The research material used in the analysis are political television programs, as well as entertainment and educational programs. On selected examples, the authors show that as a result of the cooperation of two semiotic modes, i.e. the verbal metaphor and the gestures that accompany it, the process of de-metaphorizing the word takes place because it is in the gesture that the metonymic source of the metaphorical linguistic expression is depicted, which disambiguates the interpretation of the statement.