29.4289, Books: Aspectuality across Languages: Cienki, Iriskhanova (eds.)

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Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2018 13:16:28
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Aspectuality across Languages: Cienki, Iriskhanova (eds.)

 


Title: Aspectuality across Languages 
Subtitle: Event construal in speech and gesture 
Series Title: Human Cognitive Processing 62  

Publication Year: 2018 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/hcp.62 


Editor: Alan Cienki
Editor: Olga K. Iriskhanova

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027263698 Pages: 221 Price: U.S. $ 143.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027263698 Pages: 221 Price: U.K. £ 80.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027263698 Pages: 221 Price: Europe EURO 95.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027201249 Pages: 221 Price: U.S. $ 143.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027201249 Pages: 221 Price: U.K. £ 80.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027201249 Pages: 221 Price: Europe EURO 100.70


Abstract:

The book provides a nuanced, multimodal perspective on how people express
events via certain grammatical forms of verbs in speech and certain qualities
of movement in manual gestures. The volume is the outcome of an international
project that involved three teams: one each from France, Germany, and Russia,
including scholars from the Netherlands and the United States. 

Aspect and gesture use are studied in three Indo-European languages, i.e.
French, German, and Russian. The book also summarizes the main points and
arguments from French, German, and Russian works on aspect in relation to
tense, bringing these historical traditions together for an English-speaking
reading audience. 

The work rekindles some fundamental theorizing about events and aspect,
reinvigorating it in a new light with the use of recent theorizing from
cognitive linguistics and cognitive psychology, as well as new research
methods applied to new data from actual spoken, interactive language use. It
illustrates the value of researching the variably multimodal nature of
communication – as well as theoretical issues in connection with thinking for
speaking and mental simulation – from an empirical point of view.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories
                     Semantics
                     Syntax


Written In: English  (eng)

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