Viewpoint in Language - A Multimodal Perspective

Informationen zum Autor Barbara Dancygier is a Professor in the Department of English at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Eve Sweetser is a Professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley. Klappentext This volume provides a new understanding of the role and structure of viewpoint in cognition and communication. Zusammenfassung This volume argues that human cognition is not only rooted in the human body! but also inherently 'viewpointed' as a result; consequently! so are language and communication. It uncovers surprising functional similarities across various communicative forms and provides a new understanding of the role and structure of viewpoint. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: viewpoint and perspective in language and gesture, from the ground up Eve Sweetser; Part I. Intersubjectivity and Subjectification: 1. Irony as a viewpoint phenomenon Vera Tobin and Michael Israel; 2. Subjectivity and upwards projection in mental space structure Lilian Ferrari and Eve Sweetser; 3. Negation, stance verbs, and intersubjectivity Barbara Dancygier; Part II. Gesture and Processing of Visual Information: 4. Interactions between discourse status and viewpoint in co-speech gesture Fey Parrill; 5. Maybe what it means is he actually got the spot: physical and cognitive viewpoint in a gesture study Shweta Narayan; Part III. Multiple Viewpoints in American Sign Language: 6. Reported speech as an evidentiality strategy in American sign language Barbara Shaffer; 7. Two ways of conceptualizing space: motivating the use of static and rotated vantage point space in ASL discourse Terry Janzen; Part IV. Constructions and Discourse: 8. The constructional underpinnings of viewpoint blends: the Past+now in language and literature Kiki Nikiforidou; 9. Evoking discourse spaces in speech and thought representation Lieven Vandelanotte; Conclusion: multiple viewpoints, multiple spaces Barbara Dancygier....

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• Authors: Barbara (University of British Columbia Dancygier, Barbara Sweetser Dancygier
• Assisted by: Barbara Dancygier (Editor), Barbara (University of British Columbia Dancygier (Editor), Dancygier Barbara (Editor), Eve Sweetser (Editor), Eve (University of California Sweetser (Editor), Sweetser Eve (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2015
• EAN: 9781107569300
• ISBN: 978-1-107-56930-0
• No. of pages: 254
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Cognitive Linguistics; Cambridge Studies in Cognitive; Cambridge Studies in Cognitive Linguistics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Cognition & cognitive psychology, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc