Aspectuality across languages : event construal in speech and gesture / edited by Alan Cienki, Olga K. Iriskhanova.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Iriskhanova, O. K. (Olʹga Kamaludinovna), editor.

Cienki, Alan J., editor.

Series:

Human Cognitive Processing ; 62

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nonverbal communication.

Body language.

Speech and gesture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (241 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2018]

Summary:

"The book provides a nuanced, multimodal perspective on how people express events via certain grammatical forms of verbs in speech and certain qualities of movement in manual gestures. The volume is the outcome of an international project that involved three teams: one each from France, Germany, and Russia, including scholars from the Netherlands and the United States. Aspect and gesture use are studied in three Indo-European languages, i.e. French, German, and Russian. The book also summarizes the main points and arguments from French, German, and Russian works on aspect in relation to tense, bringing these historical traditions together for an English-speaking reading audience. The work rekindles some fundamental theorizing about events and aspect, reinvigorating it in a new light with the use of recent theorizing from cognitive linguistics and cognitive psychology, as well as new research methods applied to new data from actual spoken, interactive language use. It illustrates the value of researching the variably multimodal nature of communication - as well as theoretical issues in connection with thinking for speaking and mental simulation - from an empirical point of view"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Aspect through the lens of event construal

Researching aspect in multimodal communication: consequences for data and methods

Speakers' verbal expression of event construal: quantitative and qualitative analyses

Speakers' gestural expression of event construal: quantitative and qualitative analyses

Looking ahead: kinesiological analysis

Comprehension of event construal from multimodal communication

The need for interdisciplinary collaboration.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9789027263698

9027263698

OCLC:

1076228889