23.2099, Books: Viewpoint in Language: Dancygier, Sweetser (Eds)

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From: Joyce Reid [jreid at cambridge.org]
Subject: Viewpoint in Language: Dancygier, Sweetser (Eds)

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Title: Viewpoint in Language 
Subtitle: A Multimodal Perspective 
Publication Year: 2012 
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
	   http://us.cambridge.org

Editor: Barbara Dancygier
Editor: Eve Sweetser

Hardback: ISBN:  9781107017832 Pages:  Price: U.K. £ 60.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9781107017832 Pages:  Price: U.S. $ 99.00

Abstract:

What makes us talk about viewpoint and perspective in linguistic analyses and 
in literary texts, as well as in landscape art? Is this shared vocabulary marking 
real connections between the disparate phenomena? 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. 
Dancygier and Sweetser bring together researchers who do not typically meet 
on common ground: analysts of narrative and literary style, linguists examining 
the uses of grammatical forms in signed and spoken languages, and analysts of 
gesture accompanying speech. Using models developed within cognitive 
linguistics, the book uncovers surprising functional similarities across various 
communicative forms, arguing for specific cognitive underpinnings of such 
correlations. What emerges is a new understanding of the role and structure of 
viewpoint and a groundbreaking methodology for investigating communicative 
choices across various modalities and discourse contexts. 

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. 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     Discourse Analysis
                     Ling & Literature

Written In: English  (eng)

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