Ten lectures on spoken language and gesture from the perspective of cognitive linguistics / / by Alan Cienki.

Cognitive linguistics is purported to be a usage-based approach, yet only recently has research in some of its subfields turned to spontaneous spoken (versus written) language data. The collection of Alan Cienki’s Ten Lectures on Spoken Language and Gesture from the Perspective of Cognitive Linguist...

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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill Nijhoff,, 2017.
©2017
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Distinguished Lectures in Cognitive Linguistics 17.
Physical Description:1 online resource (229 pages) :; illustrations.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Spoken Language Semantics
  • Gesture with Spoken Language: Redundant or Complementary?
  • Schemas in Cognitive Linguistic Theory and in Gesture Studies
  • Metonymy, Reference Points, and Gesture
  • The Variety of Metaphor in Speech and Gesture
  • Gesture with Speech in Relation to Mental Space Theory and Blending Theory
  • Semantic Analysis of Language as Dynamic and Multimodal: Simulation and Conceptualization
  • Grammatical Theory in Cognitive Linguistics in Relation to Multimodality
  • Language as a Prototype Category
  • Synergies between Cognitive Linguistics and Other Fields of Study: Projects in the Amsterdam Gesture Center
  • Important Resources for Cognitive Linguistics suggested by the cifcl
  • Appendix.