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The role of gesture in crossmodal typological studies

  • Sarah Taub , Dennis Galvan und Pilar Piñar
Veröffentlicht/Copyright: 10. Februar 2009
Cognitive Linguistics
Aus der Zeitschrift Band 20 Heft 1

Abstract

Comparisons between spoken and sign languages have always been difficult to make, given the linear nature of spoken language grammar versus the spatial, three-dimensional nature of sign language. A better understanding of the role that spatially expressed information plays in shaping the information structure of both spoken and sign languages holds the promise of providing an additional tool to better assess typological differences crosslinguistically and crossmodally. We analyze the use of spatial mapping in the expression of motion events in the narratives of English, Spanish, and ASL, which have been categorized as typologically different in how they express certain kinds of information lexically, syntactically, and in discourse structure. We examine whether the observed differences will remain constant or whether they will disappear once the contribution of spatial mapping to their information structure is considered.

Keywords:: gesture; spatial mapping; crossmodal, crosslinguistic; typology; ASL
Department of Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Gallaudet University, 800 Florida Avenue NE, Washington DC 20002, USA, or by email to 〈〉.
Received: 2007-08-27
Revised: 2007-12-24
Published Online: 2009-02-10
Published in Print: 2009-February

© 2009 by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, D-10785 Berlin

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  2. ‘Caused motion’? The semantics of the English to-dative and the Dutch aan-dative
  3. Fictive dynamicity, nominal aspect, and the Finnish copulative construction
  4. The role of gesture in crossmodal typological studies
  5. The nature of generalization in language
  6. Constructions at work or at rest?
  7. On Subject-Auxiliary Inversion and the notion “purely formal generalization”
  8. The case of the missing generalizations
  9. Constructions and generalizations
  10. Cognitive (Construction) Grammar
  11. Constructions on holiday
  12. Developing constructions
  13. Constructions work
https://doi.org/10.1515/COGL.2009.004
Schlagwörter für diesen Artikel
gesture; spatial mapping; crossmodal, crosslinguistic; typology; ASL

Artikel in diesem Heft

  1. Cognitive Linguistics comes of age
  2. ‘Caused motion’? The semantics of the English to-dative and the Dutch aan-dative
  3. Fictive dynamicity, nominal aspect, and the Finnish copulative construction
  4. The role of gesture in crossmodal typological studies
  5. The nature of generalization in language
  6. Constructions at work or at rest?
  7. On Subject-Auxiliary Inversion and the notion “purely formal generalization”
  8. The case of the missing generalizations
  9. Constructions and generalizations
  10. Cognitive (Construction) Grammar
  11. Constructions on holiday
  12. Developing constructions
  13. Constructions work
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