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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cienki, Alan J., author.

Series:

Distinguished lectures in cognitive linguistics

Distinguished Lectures in Cognitive Linguistics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cognitive grammar.

Speech and gesture.

Physical Description:

xi, 198 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Other Title:

10 lectures on spoken language and gesture from the perspective of cognitive linguistics

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Brill, [2017]

Summary:

"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 Linguistics' considers what it means to apply different approaches from within this field to the dynamic, multimodal combination of speech and gesture. The lectures encompass such main paradigms as blending and mental space theory, conceptual metaphor and metonymy, construction and cognitive grammars, image schemas, and mental simulation in relation to semantics. Overall, Alan Cienki shows that taking the usage-based commitment seriously with audio-visual data raises new issues and questions for theoretical models in cognitive linguistics."--Cover page 4.

Contents:

1 Spoken Language Semantics 1

2 Gesture with Spoken Language: Redundant or Complementary? 23

3 Schemas in Cognitive Linguistic Theory' and in Gesture Studies 49

4 Metonymy, Reference Points, and Gesture 69

5 The Variety of Metaphor in Speech and Gesture 87

6 Gesture with Speech in Relation to Mental Space Theory and Blending Theory 111

7 Semantic Analysis of Language as Dynamic and Multimodal: Simulation and Conceptualization 129

8 Grammatical Theory in Cognitive Linguistics in Relation to Multimodality 145

9 Language as a Prototype Category 163

10 Synergies between Cognitive Linguistics and Other Fields of Study: Projects in the Amsterdam Gesture Center 183.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

900433209X

9789004332096

OCLC:

958783197