Locative expressions in English and French : a multimodal approach / Mark Tutton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tutton, Mark, author.

Series:

Applications of cognitive linguistics ; 28.

Applications of cognitive linguistics, 1861-4078 ; volume 28

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English language--Locative constructions.

English language.

French language--Locative constructions.

French language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (338 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin : De Gruyter Mouton, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front matter

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed March 8, 2016).

ISBN:

9783110354867

3110354861

9783110394108

3110394103

OCLC:

944079139