Language in the Body : Multimodality in Grammar and Discourse.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hinnell, Jennifer.

Series:

Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [ACL] Series

Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [ACL] Series ; v.52

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cognitive grammar.

Gesture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (252 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Basel/Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter, Inc., 2026.

Summary:

Gestures are integral to spoken language.However, much of modern linguistic enquiry has been based on analyses of language as text.This book is situated in the turn towards face-to-face interaction as the primary source of linguistic data.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

List of tables

List of figures

Dictionary of constructions

Excursions

Returns

1 A multimodal view of language

1.1 Introduction

1.2 Cognitive linguistics

1.2.1 An overview

1.2.2 Embodied cognition

1.2.3 Constructions and construction grammars

1.2.4 Usage-based and corpus linguistic methods

1.2.5 From interaction to multimodality

1.2.6 Summary: Cognitive Linguistics

1.3 Multimodality

1.3.1 What is gesture?

1.3.2 Typologies of gesture

1.3.3 Recurrent gestures and gesture families

1.3.4 Multimodality: Beyond the hands

1.3.5 Multimodality and grammar: Multimodal constructions

1.3.6 Summary: Multimodality

1.4 Conclusion

2 Methods of multimodal corpus analysis

2.1 Corpora

2.1.1 Red Hen

2.1.2 Corpus of Contemporary American English

2.2 Data collection

2.2.1 Target utterance searches

2.3 Annotations

2.3.1 Kinesic form annotations

2.3.1.1 Gesture annotations

Movement

Hand shape

Gesture space

Symmetry

Laterality

Onset asynchrony

2.3.1.2 Upper body annotations

2.3.1.3 Partitioning

2.3.2 Linguistic form annotations

2.3.2.1 Multimodal profiles

2.4 Citing multimodal examples

2.5 Conclusion

3 Keep on talking - and gesturing: The multimodal marking of aspect

3.1 Introduction

3.1.1 Aspect

3.1.2 Iconicity in gesture

3.1.3 Studies of aspect in gesture

3.2 Methods

3.2.1 Target utterances

3.2.2 Data collection

3.2.3 Data annotation

3.3 Findings

3.3.1 Semantic overview by auxiliary

3.3.1.1 Open aspect auxiliaries

Continue

Keep

3.3.1.2 Phase aspect auxiliaries

Start

Stop and Quit

3.3.2 Quantitative findings

3.3.2.1 Open aspect auxiliaries

3.3.2.2 Phase aspect auxiliaries

Stop

Quit

3.4 A statistical comparison across auxiliaries.

3.5 Discussion

3.6 Conclusion

4 On the one hand, on the other hand: Contrast in the body

4.1 Introduction

4.1.1 Contrast background

4.1.2 Expressions and domains of contrast

4.1.3 Embodied contrast

4.1.4 Conventionalization in the embodied signal

4.1.5 Summary

4.2 Methods

4.2.1 Target utterances

4.2.2 Data collection in Red Hen

On (the) one hand/on the other hand

Better than/worse than

Should I/shouldn't I

Lexical antonyms and bi-clausal if-statements

4.2.3 Data annotation

4.2.3.1 Kinesic form annotations

4.2.3.2 Linguistic form annotations

4.2.4 Corpus comparison for on (the) one hand/on the other hand

4.2.5 Summary: Methods

4.3 Real world contrast

4.3.1 On (the) one hand/on the other hand

4.3.2 Other phrasal and lexical expressions of contrast

4.3.3 Quantitative case studies

4.3.3.1 On (the) one hand/on the other hand

Description of construction types

Degree of enactment

Symmetry and laterality

Handshape and handedness

Upper body movement

Body partitioning

Semantic prosody

Summary: On (the) one hand/on the other hand

4.3.3.2 Better than/worse than

4.3.4 Summary: Real world contrast

4.4 Possible world contrast

4.4.1 Should I or shouldn't I?

4.4.2 Quantitative study: Should I/shouldn't I

4.4.3 Summary: Possible world contrast

4.5 Conclusion

5 That being said: Discourse constructions are multimodal

5.1 Introduction

5.1.1 Background

5.1.2 Stance and constructional specificity

5.1.3 Summary

5.2 Methods and data

5.2.1 Target utterances

5.2.2 Data annotation

5.3 Excursion markers

5.3.1 Excursion microstudies

Which is true

Which is fine

Which, by the way

How shall/should I put it?

Although, you know

5.3.2 Summary: Excursions.

5.4 Return markers

5.4.1 Return microstudies

Anyhow

At any rate

So anyway(s) and but anyway(s)

So anyway(s)

But anyway(s)

However, I

Nevertheless

That being said

5.4.2 Summary and discussion: Returns

5.5 Excursions and returns as stance-marking, multimodal constructions

5.5.1 The nature of stance: Embodied, stacked, and idiomatic

5.6 Conclusion

6 Implications and applications of a multimodal view of language

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Implications for a constructionalist view of language

6.2.1 Convention and variation

6.2.2 Rethinking iconicity, schematicity, and grammaticalization

6.3 Applications in linguistics and beyond

6.3.1 Language documentation and language pedagogy

6.3.2 Applications in AI and technology

6.4 Final observations

Appendix: Source data for figures from Red Hen

References

Index.

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ISBN:

3-11-079466-7

OCLC:

1591760789