Ten Lectures on Spoken Language and Gesture from the Perspective of Cognitive Linguistics
Ten Lectures on Spoken Language and Gesture from the Perspective of Cognitive Linguistics

Author: Alan Cienki

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2017-04-11

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 9004336230

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Cognitive linguistics is purported to be a usage-based approach, yet only recently has research in some of its subfields turned to spontaneous spoken (versus written) language data. The collection of Alan Cienki’s Ten Lectures on Spoken Language and Gesture from the Perspective of Cognitive Linguistics considers what it means to apply different approaches from within this field to the dynamic, multimodal combination of speech and gesture. The lectures encompass such main paradigms as blending and mental space theory, conceptual metaphor and metonymy, construction and cognitive grammars, image schemas, and mental simulation in relation to semantics. Overall, Alan Cienki shows that taking the usage-based commitment seriously with audio-visual data raises new issues and questions for theoretical models in cognitive linguistics. The lectures for this book were given at The China International Forum on Cognitive Linguistics in May 2013.

Ten Lectures on Cognitive Linguistics and the Unification of Spoken and Signed Languages
Ten Lectures on Cognitive Linguistics and the Unification of Spoken and Signed Languages

Author: Sherman Wilcox

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2017-11-06

Total Pages: 452

ISBN-13: 900433677X

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In Ten Lectures on Cognitive Linguistics and the Unification of Spoken and Signed Languages Sherman Wilcox suggests that rather than abstracting away from the material substance of language, linguists can discover the deep connections between signed and spoken languages by taking an embodied view. This embodied solution reveals the patterns and principles that unite languages across modalities. Using a multidisciplinary approach, Wilcox explores such issues as the how to apply cognitive grammar to the study of signed languages, the pervasive conceptual iconicity present throughout the lexicon and grammar of signed languages, the relation of language and gesture, the grammaticization of signs, the significance of motion for understanding language as a dynamic system, and the integration of cognitive neuroscience and cognitive linguistics.

Signed Language and Gesture Research in Cognitive Linguistics
Signed Language and Gesture Research in Cognitive Linguistics

Author: Terry Janzen

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2023-07-24

Total Pages: 482

ISBN-13: 3110703785

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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. Wilcoxs 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. Wilcoxs 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.

Cinematic Metaphor in Perspective
Cinematic Metaphor in Perspective

Author: Sarah Greifenstein

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2018-10-08

Total Pages: 158

ISBN-13: 3110615037

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Over centuries, scholars have explored how metaphor contributes to thought, language, culture. This collection of essays reflects on Müller, Kappelhoff, and colleagues’ transdisciplinary (film studies and linguistics) approach formulated in "Cinematic Metaphor: Experience – Affectivity – Temporality". The key concept of cinematic metaphor opens up reflections on metaphor as a form of embodied meaning-making in human life across disciplines. The book documents collaborative work, reflecting intense, sometimes controversial, discussions across disciplinary boundaries. In this edited volume, renowned authors explore how exposure to the framework of Cinematic Metaphor inspires their views of metaphor in film and of metaphor theory and analysis more generally. Contributions include explorations from the point of view of applied linguistics (Lynne Cameron), cognitive linguistics (Alan Cienki), media studies (Kathrin Fahlenbrach), media history (Michael Wedel), philosophy (Anne Eusterschulte), and psychology (Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr.).

Locative Expressions in English and French
Locative Expressions in English and French

Author: Mark Tutton

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2016-01-29

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 3110354861

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Expressing location is one of the most common linguistic tasks that we perform in our daily lives. This book provides the first comprehensive analysis into how speakers of English and French use gesture as well as speech when describing where objects are located. It shows that spoken locative expressions are made up of both speech and gesture components, and that the two modalities contribute in a complementary fashion to convey locative meaning.

Drawing Attention to Metaphor
Drawing Attention to Metaphor

Author: Camilla Di Biase-Dyson

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Published: 2020-04-15

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 9027261490

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The communicative act of drawing attention to metaphor is a relatively recent topic in metaphor studies and one that has remained contentious from a cognitive perspective. This book brings philologists of ancient languages together with metaphor experts from several modalities to interrogate whether ancient and modern texts and languages draw attention to figurative tropes in similar ways. In this way, the diachronic, multimodal and pluridisciplinary contributions to this volume critically review the theoretical frameworks underpinning metaphor marking and metaphor analysis from a completely new empirical basis.

Language learning and professionalization in higher education: pathways to preparing learners and teachers in/for the 21st century
Language learning and professionalization in higher education: pathways to preparing learners and teachers in/for the 21st century

Author: Béatrice Dupuy

Publisher: Research-publishing.net

Published: 2020-11-16

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 249005774X

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In this volume, language learning and professionalization are explored by addressing the existing gap between pressing needs for enhanced soft skills in work environments wherein technology-mediated, multilingual communication is increasingly the norm, and current foreign language teaching and learning offerings in higher education. Considering theoretical, methodological, and pedagogical perspectives for preparing language learners and teachers in/for the 21st century, this volume’s eight chapters underscore that research findings should inform the design of learning experiences so that people’s communication needs in fast-changing work environments are met and the link between language education and professionalization, within a lifelong learning perspective, is sustained.

Speech and Computer
Speech and Computer

Author: S. R. Mahadeva Prasanna

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2022-11-12

Total Pages: 737

ISBN-13: 303120980X

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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Speech and Computer, SPECOM 2022, held as a hybrid event in Gurugram, India, in November 2022. The 51 full and 9 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 99 submissions. The papers present current research in the area of computer speech processing including audio signal processing, automatic speech recognition, speaker recognition, computational paralinguistics, speech synthesis, sign language and multimodal processing, and speech and language resources.

Recurrent Gestures of Hausa Speakers
Recurrent Gestures of Hausa Speakers

Author: Izabela Will

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-11-15

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 9004449795

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This book presents a repertoire of conventionalized co-speech gestures used by Hausa speakers from northern Nigeria.

Ten Lectures in Cognitive Linguistics
Ten Lectures in Cognitive Linguistics

Author: Christopher Hart

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2024-03-21

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 9004689664

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In this book, Christopher Hart provides a comprehensive description of an applied form of Cognitive Linguistics in Cognitive Critical Discourse Analysis (Cognitive CDA). Cognitive CDA applies frameworks in cognitive linguistics in analyses of political texts and talk to highlight the ideological qualities and legitimating functions of conceptualisations associated with dominant discourse practices. Across the ten lectures, various frameworks in cognitive linguistics are applied, including cognitive grammar, conceptual semantics, conceptual metaphor theory and discourse space theory. Texts and talk from a variety of contexts and genres are analysed. In the final two lectures, Cognitive CDA is extended to multimodal data in the form of images and gestures.