Signed Language and Gesture Research in Cognitive Linguistics.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Janzen, Terry.

Contributor:

Shaffer, Barbara.

Series:

Cognitive Linguistics Research vol. 67

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gesture--Research.

Gesture.

Linguistics.

Sign language--Research.

Sign language.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (482 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter, Inc., 2023.

Summary:

This volume represents the first time that researchers on signed language and gesture have come together with a coherent focus under the framework of cognitive linguistics. The pioneering work of Sherman Wilcox is highlighted throughout, scaffolding much of the research of these contributors. The five sections of the volume reflect critical areas of Dr. Wilcox’s own research in cognitive linguistics: Guiding research principles in signed language, gesture, and cognitive linguistics; iconicity across signed and spoken linguistics; multimodality; blending, depiction and metaphor in signed languages; and specific grammatical constructions as form-meaning pairings. The authors of this volume exemplify and continue Dr. Wilcox’s work of bridging signed and spoken language disciplines by contributing chapters that represent a multiplicity of perspectives on signed, spoken, and gesture data. This volume presents a unified collection of cognitive linguistics research by leading authors that will be of interest to readers in the fields of signed and spoken language linguistics, gesture studies, and general linguistics.

Contents:

Intro

Acknowledgements

Contents

Foreword

Introduction: Examining signed language and gesture research within the domain of cognitive linguistics

I Guiding principles for signed and spoken language research

Through the signed language glass: Changing and converging views in spoken and signed language research

Coming back to the issue of the graphic representation of signed language discourse in signed language linguistics

What is a language? A socio-semiotic approach to signed and spoken languages

II Iconicity in spoken and signed language

Structure, iconicity, and access

When hands are things and movements are processes: Cognitive iconicity, embodied cognition, and signed language structure

III Multimodality

Gestural meaning is in the body(-space) as much as in the hands

A Place for joint action in multimodal constructions

What I know is here

what I don't know is somewhere else: Deixis and gesture spaces in American Sign Language and Irish Sign Language

Insights on the use of narrative perspectives in signed and spoken discourse in Quebec Sign Language, American Sign Language, and Quebec French

IV Blending and metaphor

Exploring Real Space blends as indicators of discourse complexity in Swedish Sign Language

Metaphors and blending in Italian Sign Language discourse: A window on the interaction of language and thought

V Grammatical constructions

The mouth shrug and facial consent in Danish Sign Language

Usage-based grammar: Multi-word expressions in American Sign Language

Possibility modals in Brazilian Sign Language and Argentine Sign Language: A contrastive study

The semantics of relative clause constructions in Iranian Sign Language

VI Concluding commentary

Language in the light of sign and gesture

Index.

Notes:

This volume represents the first time that researchers on signed language and gesture have come together with a coherent focus under the framework of cognitive linguistics. The pioneering work of Sherman Wilcox is highlighted throughout, scaffolding much of the research of these contributors. The five sections of the volume reflect critical areas of Dr. Wilcoxs own research in cognitive linguistics: Guiding research principles in signed language, gesture, and cognitive linguistics, iconicity across signed and spoken linguistics, multimodality, blending, depiction and metaphor in signed languages, and specific grammatical constructions as form-meaning pairings. The authors of this volume exemplify and continue Dr. Wilcoxs work of bridging signed and spoken language disciplines by contributing chapters that represent a multiplicity of perspectives on signed, spoken, and gesture data. This volume presents a unified collection of cognitive linguistics research by leading authors that will be of interest to readers in the fields of signed and spoken language linguistics, gesture studies, and general linguistics.

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ISBN:

9783110703788

3110703785

OCLC:

1382632376