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Signed Language and Gesture Research in Cognitive Linguistics / ed. by Terry Janzen, Barbara Shaffer.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR] ; 67Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2023]Copyright date: ©2023Description: 1 online resource (XIII, 452 p.)Content type:
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  • 9783110703672
  • 9783110703894
  • 9783110703788
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 419
LOC classification:
  • HV2474 .S5725 2023
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction: Examining signed language and gesture research within the domain of cognitive linguistics -- I Guiding principles for signed and spoken language research -- Through the signed language glass: Changing and converging views in spoken and signed language research -- Coming back to the issue of the graphic representation of signed language discourse in signed language linguistics -- What is a language? A socio-semiotic approach to signed and spoken languages -- II Iconicity in spoken and signed language -- Structure, iconicity, and access -- When hands are things and movements are processes: Cognitive iconicity, embodied cognition, and signed language structure -- III Multimodality -- Gestural meaning is in the body(-space) as much as in the hands -- A Place for joint action in multimodal constructions -- What I know is here; what I don’t know is somewhere else: Deixis and gesture spaces in American Sign Language and Irish Sign Language -- Insights on the use of narrative perspectives in signed and spoken discourse in Quebec Sign Language, American Sign Language, and Quebec French -- IV Blending and metaphor -- Exploring Real Space blends as indicators of discourse complexity in Swedish Sign Language -- Metaphors and blending in Italian Sign Language discourse: A window on the interaction of language and thought -- V Grammatical constructions -- The mouth shrug and facial consent in Danish Sign Language -- Usage-based grammar: Multi-word expressions in American Sign Language -- Possibility modals in Brazilian Sign Language and Argentine Sign Language: A contrastive study -- The semantics of relative clause constructions in Iranian Sign Language -- VI Concluding commentary -- Language in the light of sign and gesture -- Index
Summary: This volume represents the first time that researchers on signed language and gesture have come together with a coherent focus under the framework of cognitive linguistics. The pioneering work of Sherman Wilcox is highlighted throughout, scaffolding much of the research of these contributors. The five sections of the volume reflect critical areas of Dr. Wilcox’s own research in cognitive linguistics: Guiding research principles in signed language, gesture, and cognitive linguistics; iconicity across signed and spoken linguistics; multimodality; blending, depiction and metaphor in signed languages; and specific grammatical constructions as form-meaning pairings. The authors of this volume exemplify and continue Dr. Wilcox’s work of bridging signed and spoken language disciplines by contributing chapters that represent a multiplicity of perspectives on signed, spoken, and gesture data. This volume presents a unified collection of cognitive linguistics research by leading authors that will be of interest to readers in the fields of signed and spoken language linguistics, gesture studies, and general linguistics.
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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction: Examining signed language and gesture research within the domain of cognitive linguistics -- I Guiding principles for signed and spoken language research -- Through the signed language glass: Changing and converging views in spoken and signed language research -- Coming back to the issue of the graphic representation of signed language discourse in signed language linguistics -- What is a language? A socio-semiotic approach to signed and spoken languages -- II Iconicity in spoken and signed language -- Structure, iconicity, and access -- When hands are things and movements are processes: Cognitive iconicity, embodied cognition, and signed language structure -- III Multimodality -- Gestural meaning is in the body(-space) as much as in the hands -- A Place for joint action in multimodal constructions -- What I know is here; what I don’t know is somewhere else: Deixis and gesture spaces in American Sign Language and Irish Sign Language -- Insights on the use of narrative perspectives in signed and spoken discourse in Quebec Sign Language, American Sign Language, and Quebec French -- IV Blending and metaphor -- Exploring Real Space blends as indicators of discourse complexity in Swedish Sign Language -- Metaphors and blending in Italian Sign Language discourse: A window on the interaction of language and thought -- V Grammatical constructions -- The mouth shrug and facial consent in Danish Sign Language -- Usage-based grammar: Multi-word expressions in American Sign Language -- Possibility modals in Brazilian Sign Language and Argentine Sign Language: A contrastive study -- The semantics of relative clause constructions in Iranian Sign Language -- VI Concluding commentary -- Language in the light of sign and gesture -- Index

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This volume represents the first time that researchers on signed language and gesture have come together with a coherent focus under the framework of cognitive linguistics. The pioneering work of Sherman Wilcox is highlighted throughout, scaffolding much of the research of these contributors. The five sections of the volume reflect critical areas of Dr. Wilcox’s own research in cognitive linguistics: Guiding research principles in signed language, gesture, and cognitive linguistics; iconicity across signed and spoken linguistics; multimodality; blending, depiction and metaphor in signed languages; and specific grammatical constructions as form-meaning pairings. The authors of this volume exemplify and continue Dr. Wilcox’s work of bridging signed and spoken language disciplines by contributing chapters that represent a multiplicity of perspectives on signed, spoken, and gesture data. This volume presents a unified collection of cognitive linguistics research by leading authors that will be of interest to readers in the fields of signed and spoken language linguistics, gesture studies, and general linguistics.

Issued also in print.

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In English.

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