Locative Expressions in English and French : : A Multimodal Approach / / Mark Tutton.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2016 Part 1
• VerfasserIn: Tutton, Mark,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [ACL] , 28
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XIV, 323 p.)

Expressing location is one of the most common linguistic tasks that we perform in our daily lives. This book provides the first comprehensive analysis into how speakers of English and French use gesture as well as speech when describing where objects are located. It shows that spoken locative expressions are made up of both speech and gesture components, and that the two modalities contribute in a complementary fashion to convey locative meaning.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Table of Contents -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Language, gesture, and locative expressions: a background -- 3. Methodology -- 4. Defining and separating static locative expressions in oral discourse -- 5. Describing location along the frontal axis -- 6. Describing location along the lateral axis -- 7. How speakers gesture when encoding location with on and sur -- 8. Further findings, and the theoretical application of our results -- 9. Conclusion -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Appendix C -- Appendix D -- Appendix E -- Appendix F -- References -- Index