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Timelines and multimodal constructions: Facing new challenges

  • Cristóbal Pagán Cánovas EMAIL logo and Javier Valenzuela
Published/Copyright: June 29, 2017

Abstract

There is little doubt that spatial information underlies a great deal of our processing of temporal information. Research on the ways in which timelines are associated with specific grammatical constructions has just started, and has brought forward new challenges for construction grammar. A true multimodal construction grammar cannot be developed using the same tools and mechanisms applied so far, but will require instead a fresh approach and a careful rethinking of the whole communicative process. It is our belief than in this transition from a narrow conception of linguistic communication to a broader and more complete view of communication “in the wild”, multimodal construction grammar will play an important role.

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Received: 2016-10-13
Accepted: 2016-10-19
Published Online: 2017-06-29

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