Locative Expressions in English and French - A Multimodal Approach

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.

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Mark Tutton, University of Nantes, France.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Mark Tutton
• Verlag: De Gruyter
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 01.02.2016
• EAN: 9783110354737
• ISBN: 978-3-11-035473-7
• Seiten: 323
• Abmessung: 169 mm x 22 mm x 237 mm
• Gewicht: 626 g
• Serien: Applications of Cognitive Linguistics; Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [ACL]; Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [ACL]; Applications of Cognitive Linguistics; ISSN
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft