32.3316, Books: Repetitions in Gesture: Bressem

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Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2021 11:12:43
From: Birgit Sievert [Birgit.Sievert at degruyter.com]
Subject: Repetitions in Gesture: Bressem

 


Title: Repetitions in Gesture 
Subtitle: A Cognitive-Linguistic and Usage-Based Perspective 
Series Title: Applications of Cognitive Linguistics  

Publication Year: 2021 
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
	   https://cloud.newsletter.degruyter.com/mouton
	

Book URL: https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110697902/html 


Author: Jana Bressem

Electronic: ISBN:  9783110697902 Pages: 270 Price: U.S. $ 114.99
Hardback: ISBN:  9783110697728 Pages: 270 Price: U.S. $ 114.99


Abstract:

Repetitive sequences play a major role as a pattern-building device and are a
basic syntagmatic linguistic means on all language levels in spoken and signed
languages. Little attention has been paid to investigating them in multimodal
language use. Do gestures exhibit different types of repetitive sequences? Do
they build complex units based on these types and if so, how is the pattern
building to be described? How is the interrelation of gestural and spoken
units in such complex units? Is it possible to identify repetitive patterns
that are comparable to spoken and signed languages and/or patterns specific to
the gestural modality? 

Based on a corpus-analysis of multimodal usage-events, 7 chapters explore
gestural repetitions with regard to their structure, semantic and syntactic
relevance for multimodal utterances, and cognitive saliency. Fine-grained
cognitive-linguistic analyses of multimodal usage events reveal that gestural
repetitions are not only a basic principle of building patterns in spoken and
signed languages, but also in gestures. 

By addressing questions of mediality and multimodality of language-in-use, the
book contributes to the investigation of repetition as a fundamental means of
sign and meaning construction (crosscutting modalities) and enhances the
understanding of the multimodal character of language in use.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     Discourse Analysis
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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