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Integrating Gestures : The Dimension of Multimodality in Cognitive Grammar / Silva Ladewig.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [ACL] ; 44Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (XIII, 224 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110668414
  • 9783110668650
  • 9783110668568
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 302.2/22
LOC classification:
  • P99.5
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction: cognitive grammar and gesture studies? -- 2 Multimodality of grammar and its cognitive foundations -- 3 How are gestures integrated into linguistic structures? -- 4 Semantic integration of gestures: constructing multimodal reference objects -- 5 Multimodal sentences and discourse contexts: salience, attention and foregrounding -- 6 Conclusion -- Appendices -- References -- Index
Summary: Gestures are now viewed as an integral part of spoken language. But little attention has been paid to the recipients’ cognitive processes of integrating both gesture and speech. How do people understand a speaker’s gestures when inserted into gaps in the flow of speech? What cognitive-semiotic mechanisms allow this integration to occur? And what linguistic and gestural properties do people draw on when construing multimodal meaning? This book offers answers by investigating multimodal utterances in which speech is replaced by gestures. Through fine-grained cognitive-linguistic and cognitive-semiotic analyses of multimodal utterances combined with naturalistic perception experiments, six chapters explore gestures’ potential to realize grammatical notions of nouns and verbs and to integrate with speech by merging into multimodal syntactic constructions. Analyses of speech-replacing gestures and a range of related phenomena compel us to consider gestures as well as spoken and signed language as manifestations of the same conceptual system. An overarching framework is proposed for studying these different modalities together – a multimodal cognitive grammar.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction: cognitive grammar and gesture studies? -- 2 Multimodality of grammar and its cognitive foundations -- 3 How are gestures integrated into linguistic structures? -- 4 Semantic integration of gestures: constructing multimodal reference objects -- 5 Multimodal sentences and discourse contexts: salience, attention and foregrounding -- 6 Conclusion -- Appendices -- References -- Index

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Gestures are now viewed as an integral part of spoken language. But little attention has been paid to the recipients’ cognitive processes of integrating both gesture and speech. How do people understand a speaker’s gestures when inserted into gaps in the flow of speech? What cognitive-semiotic mechanisms allow this integration to occur? And what linguistic and gestural properties do people draw on when construing multimodal meaning? This book offers answers by investigating multimodal utterances in which speech is replaced by gestures. Through fine-grained cognitive-linguistic and cognitive-semiotic analyses of multimodal utterances combined with naturalistic perception experiments, six chapters explore gestures’ potential to realize grammatical notions of nouns and verbs and to integrate with speech by merging into multimodal syntactic constructions. Analyses of speech-replacing gestures and a range of related phenomena compel us to consider gestures as well as spoken and signed language as manifestations of the same conceptual system. An overarching framework is proposed for studying these different modalities together – a multimodal cognitive grammar.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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