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Aspectuality across Languages
Event construal in speech and gesture
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2018
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The book provides a nuanced, multimodal perspective on how people express events via certain grammatical forms of verbs in speech and certain qualities of movement in manual gestures. The volume is the outcome of an international project that involved three teams: one each from France, Germany, and Russia, including scholars from the Netherlands and the United States.
Aspect and gesture use are studied in three Indo-European languages, i.e. French, German, and Russian. The book also summarizes the main points and arguments from French, German, and Russian works on aspect in relation to tense, bringing these historical traditions together for an English-speaking reading audience.
The work rekindles some fundamental theorizing about events and aspect, reinvigorating it in a new light with the use of recent theorizing from cognitive linguistics and cognitive psychology, as well as new research methods applied to new data from actual spoken, interactive language use. It illustrates the value of researching the variably multimodal nature of communication – as well as theoretical issues in connection with thinking for speaking and mental simulation – from an empirical point of view.
Aspect and gesture use are studied in three Indo-European languages, i.e. French, German, and Russian. The book also summarizes the main points and arguments from French, German, and Russian works on aspect in relation to tense, bringing these historical traditions together for an English-speaking reading audience.
The work rekindles some fundamental theorizing about events and aspect, reinvigorating it in a new light with the use of recent theorizing from cognitive linguistics and cognitive psychology, as well as new research methods applied to new data from actual spoken, interactive language use. It illustrates the value of researching the variably multimodal nature of communication – as well as theoretical issues in connection with thinking for speaking and mental simulation – from an empirical point of view.
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Prelim pages
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Table of contents
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Editors and contributors
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Acknowledgments
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List of tables and figures
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Preface
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Introduction
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Chapter 1. Aspect through the lens of event construal
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Chapter 2. Researching aspect in multimodal communication
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Chapter 3. Speakers’ verbal expression of event construal
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Chapter 4. Speakers’ gestural expression of event construal
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Chapter 5. Looking ahead
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Chapter 6. Comprehension of event construal from multimodal communication ( Becker, Gonzalez-Marquez )
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Conclusion
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References
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Appendix A. The two-part consent form used in the production study, which was translated into French, German, and Russian
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Appendix B. The conversation prompts as provided in each language
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Appendix C. Illustration of the categories used for controlled vocabulary in ELAN for verb coding, taking the Russian verbal data as an example
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Appendix D. Transliteration conventions used for Russian (Cyrillic to Latin alphabet)
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Author index
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Subject index
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September 17, 2018
eBook ISBN:
9789027263698
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Keywords for this book
Gesture Studies; Theoretical linguistics; Semantics; Syntax; Cognition and language
Audience(s) for this book
Professional and scholarly;
