Integrating Gestures: The Dimension of Multimodality in Cognitive Grammar

Silva H. Ladewig

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2020

Integrating Gestures

The Dimension of Multimodality in Cognitive Grammar

Silva H. Ladewig

Volume 44 in the series Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [ACL]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110668568

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Gestures are now viewed as an integral part of spoken language. But little attention has been paid to the recipients’ cognitive processes of integrating both gesture and speech. How do people understand a speaker’s gestures when inserted into gaps in the flow of speech? What cognitive-semiotic mechanisms allow this integration to occur? And what linguistic and gestural properties do people draw on when construing multimodal meaning? This book offers answers by investigating multimodal utterances in which speech is replaced by gestures. Through fine-grained cognitive-linguistic and cognitive-semiotic analyses of multimodal utterances combined with naturalistic perception experiments, six chapters explore gestures’ potential to realize grammatical notions of nouns and verbs and to integrate with speech by merging into multimodal syntactic constructions. Analyses of speech-replacing gestures and a range of related phenomena compel us to consider gestures as well as spoken and signed language as manifestations of the same conceptual system. An overarching framework is proposed for studying these different modalities together – a multimodal cognitive grammar.

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Silva H. Ladewig, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder).

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
List of Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
List of Tables Publicly Available Download PDF	XV
1 Introduction: cognitive grammar and gesture studies? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2 Multimodality of grammar and its cognitive foundations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
3 How are gestures integrated into linguistic structures? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
4 Semantic integration of gestures: constructing multimodal reference objects Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
5 Multimodal sentences and discourse contexts: salience, attention and foregrounding Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
6 Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
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References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
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(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Researchers, Students interested in Applied/Cognitive Linguistic, Pragmatics, Multimodality, Gesture Studies
Pages
- Front matter: 13
- Main content: 224
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 40
- Coloured Illustrations: 14
- Tables: 15
Keywords: Multimodal Cognitive Grammar; Speech replacing Gestures; Gesture Speech Integration; Gesture and Grammar

eBook

Published: July 20, 2020
ISBN: 9783110668568

Hardcover

Published: July 20, 2020
ISBN: 9783110668414

Paperback

Published: July 18, 2022
ISBN: 9783110992410