Multimodal communication from a construction grammar perspective edited by Kiki Nikiforidou, Mirjam Fried

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Nikiforidou, Kiki, 1961- editor.

Fried, Mirjam, editor.

Series:

Constructional approaches to language v. 38

Constructional approaches to language volume 38

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Modality (Linguistics).

Communication.

Construction grammar.

Genre:

Essays

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam Philadelphia John Benjamins Publishing Company [2025]

Summary:

"The volume is of direct interest to scholars, from senior academics to PhD students, interested in linguistically relevant phonetic and gestural information and in the relationship between multimodal communication and grammar. It contains important work in a relatively new, dynamic and exploratory field that is receiving a lot of attention, namely the relation of multimodal communication with grammatical frameworks, notably Construction Grammar. Drawing on case studies in different languages (English, Modern Greek, Czech, Hebrew, Italian), the chapters provide both the necessary theoretical discussion and solid empirical evidence (corpus-based or experimental) for integrating multimodal interactional features with grammatical description and analysis. This timely collection of studies highlights the recent marriage of cognitive/constructional and interactional approaches and addresses head-on questions and challenges like: which multimodal features are systematic and conventional enough to be integrated into grammar and what are appropriate ways of achieving the integration"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Prelim pages Table of contents Grammar and multimodality Part I. Challenges for multimodal Construction Grammar; conventionality and integration of multimodal features Construction Grammar, multimodal communication, and design features of language Multimodality, conventionality and inheritance in dialogic constructions Utterance comprehension in spontaneous speech The prosody of list constructions Part II. Multimodal aspects of constructions; language-specific features and cross-linguistic generalizations A multimodal approach to coordination in spontaneous conversation An evidential function of raised eyebrows in interaction Towards a functional perspective on multimodal constructions Contrastive negation constructions in Israeli Hebrew Pragmatic and prosodic aspects of the negative directive ðe mu les? ('tell me') in Greek conversation Subject index Constructions index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 09, 2025)

Other Format:

Print version Multimodal communication from a construction grammar perspective

ISBN:

9027246300

9789027246301

OCLC:

1479717879

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