Ten Lectures on Spoken Language and Gesture from the Perspective of Cognitive Linguistics

Issues of Dynamicity and Multimodality
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-90-04-33209-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 17, 198 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 441 g

Reihe: Distinguished Lectures in Cognitive Linguistics

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.

The lectures for this book were given at The China International Forum on Cognitive Linguistics in May 2013.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cienki, Alan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Soziolinguistik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Zeichensprachen, Künstliche Sprachen
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Psycholinguistik, Neurolinguistik, Kognition

Über Autor(innen)

Alan Cienki, Ph.D. (1988), Brown University, is Professor of Language Use and Cognition at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and directs the Multimodal Communication and Cognition Lab at Moscow State Linguistic University.