Signed Language and Gesture Research in Cognitive Linguistics

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Signed Language and Gesture Research in Cognitive Linguistics

Edited by: Terry Janzen and Barbara Shaffer

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2023

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Volume 67 | Cognitive Linguistics Research [CLR]

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This volume represents the first time that researchers on signed language and gesture have come together with a coherent focus under the framework of cognitive linguistics. The pioneering work of Sherman Wilcox is highlighted throughout, scaffolding much of the research of these contributors. The five sections of the volume reflect critical areas of Dr. Wilcox’s own research in cognitive linguistics: Guiding research principles in signed language, gesture, and cognitive linguistics; iconicity across signed and spoken linguistics; multimodality; blending, depiction and metaphor in signed languages; and specific grammatical constructions as form-meaning pairings. The authors of this volume exemplify and continue Dr. Wilcox’s work of bridging signed and spoken language disciplines by contributing chapters that represent a multiplicity of perspectives on signed, spoken, and gesture data. This volume presents a unified collection of cognitive linguistics research by leading authors that will be of interest to readers in the fields of signed and spoken language linguistics, gesture studies, and general linguistics.

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Terry Janzen, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada; Barbara Shaffer, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Foreword Cornelia Müller Publicly Available Download PDF	XIII
Introduction: Examining signed language and gesture research within the domain of cognitive linguistics Terry Janzen and Barbara Shaffer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
I Guiding principles for signed and spoken language research
Through the signed language glass: Changing and converging views in spoken and signed language research Penny Boyes Braem and Virginia Volterra Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	23
Coming back to the issue of the graphic representation of signed language discourse in signed language linguistics Elena Antinoro Pizzuto and Brigitte Garcia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	49
What is a language? A socio-semiotic approach to signed and spoken languages Paola Pietrandrea Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	75
II Iconicity in spoken and signed language
Structure, iconicity, and access Ronald W. Langacker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	105
When hands are things and movements are processes: Cognitive iconicity, embodied cognition, and signed language structure Corrine Occhino Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	127
III Multimodality
Gestural meaning is in the body(-space) as much as in the hands Eve Sweetser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	157
A Place for joint action in multimodal constructions Laura Ruth-Hirrel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	181
What I know is here; what I don’t know is somewhere else: Deixis and gesture spaces in American Sign Language and Irish Sign Language Terry Janzen, Barbara Shaffer and Lorraine Leeson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	211
Insights on the use of narrative perspectives in signed and spoken discourse in Quebec Sign Language, American Sign Language, and Quebec French Darren Saunders and Parisot Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	243
IV Blending and metaphor
Exploring Real Space blends as indicators of discourse complexity in Swedish Sign Language Anna-Lena Nilsson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	275
Metaphors and blending in Italian Sign Language discourse: A window on the interaction of language and thought Tommaso Russo and Paola Pietrandrea Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	303
V Grammatical constructions
The mouth shrug and facial consent in Danish Sign Language Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	329
Usage-based grammar: Multi-word expressions in American Sign Language Erin Wilkinson, Ryan Lepic and Lynn Hou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	357
Possibility modals in Brazilian Sign Language and Argentine Sign Language: A contrastive study André Nogueira Xavier and Rocío Anabel Martínez Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	389
The semantics of relative clause constructions in Iranian Sign Language Sara Siyavoshi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	417
VI Concluding commentary
Language in the light of sign and gesture Adam Kendon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	443
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	463

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eBook published on:

July 24, 2023

eBook ISBN:

9783110703788

Hardcover published on:

July 24, 2023

Hardcover ISBN:

9783110703672

Paperback published on:

June 30, 2025

Paperback ISBN:

9783112213711

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Front matter:

13

Main content:

452

Illustrations:

35

Coloured Illustrations:

78

Tables:

19

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110703788

eBook ISBN: 9783110703788

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110703672

Paperback ISBN: 9783112213711

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Cognitive Linguistics; Signed Languages; Gesture; Multimodality

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Researchers, Students in Cognitive Linguistics; Functional Linguistics; Signed Languages; Gesture Studies

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