Integrating Gestures : : The Dimension of Multimodality in Cognitive Grammar / / Silva Ladewig.
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 mecha...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2020 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2020] ©2020 |
Year of Publication: | 2020 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [ACL] ,
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (XIII, 224 p.) |
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Other title: | 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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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. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9783110668568 9783110696288 9783110696271 9783110659061 9783110743166 9783110704716 9783110704518 9783110704761 9783110704563 |
ISSN: | 1861-4078 ; |
DOI: | 10.1515/9783110668568 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Silva Ladewig. |