Ten Lectures on Spoken Language and Gesture from the Perspective of Cognitive Linguistics - Issues of Dynamicity and Multimodality

The Ten Lectures by Alan Cienki consider what it means to apply theoretical approaches from cognitive linguistics to the dynamic phenomena of speech and gesture. Taking the usage-based commitment seriously with audio-visual data raises new theoretical questions for cognitive linguistics.

About the author

Alan Cienki, Ph.D. (1988), Brown University, is Professor of Language Use and Cognition at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and directs the Multimodal Communication and Cognition Lab at Moscow State Linguistic University.

Product details

• Authors: Alan Cienki
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.04.2017
• EAN: 9789004332096
• ISBN: 978-90-04-33209-6
• No. of pages: 212
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 241 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 441 g
• Series: Distinguished Lectures in Cogn
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics