Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Editors and contributors xi
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. List of tables and figures xv
6. Preface xvii
7. Introduction 1
8. Chapter 1. Aspect through the lens of event construal 7
9. Chapter 2. Researching aspect in multimodal communication 61
10. Chapter 3. Speakers’ verbal expression of event construal 77
11. Chapter 4. Speakers’ gestural expression of event construal 107
12. Chapter 5. Looking ahead 143
13. Chapter 6. Comprehension of event construal from multimodal communication ( Becker, Gonzalez-Marquez ) 161
14. Conclusion 179
15. References 185
16. Appendix A. The two-part consent form used in the production study, which was translated into French, German, and Russian 205
17. Appendix B. The conversation prompts as provided in each language 207
18. Appendix C. Illustration of the categories used for controlled vocabulary in ELAN for verb coding, taking the Russian verbal data as an example 209
19. Appendix D. Transliteration conventions used for Russian (Cyrillic to Latin alphabet) 211
20. Author index 213
21. Subject index 217