Ten Lectures on Spoken Language and Gesture from the Perspective of Cognitive Linguistics: Issues of Dynamicity and Multimodality (Distinguished Lectures in Cognitive Linguistics) - Hardcover

Cienki, Alan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 900433209X ISBN 13: 9789004332096

Publisher: Brill Academic Pub, 2017

Synopsis

"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."--Cover page 4.

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About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 900433209X
• ISBN 13: 9789004332096
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 198