35.3600, Books: A Multimodal Language Faculty: Cohn and Schilperoord (2024)

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Subject: 35.3600, Books: A Multimodal Language Faculty: Cohn and Schilperoord (2024)

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Date: 18-Dec-2024
From: Rachel Bradshaw [rachel.bradshaw at bloomsbury.com]
Subject: A Multimodal Language Faculty: Cohn and Schilperoord (2024)


Title: A Multimodal Language Faculty
Subtitle: A Cognitive Framework for Human Communication
Publication Year: 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
                http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/
Book URL:
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/multimodal-language-faculty-9781350402416/

Author: Neil Cohn
Author: Joost Schilperoord
Hardback: ISBN: 9781350402416 Pages: 352 Price: U.K. £ 95
Abstract:

Natural human communication is multimodal. We pair speech with
gestures, and combine writing with pictures from online messaging to
comics to advertising. This richness of human communication remains
unaddressed in linguistic and cognitive theories which maintain
traditional amodal assumptions about language. What is needed is a
new, multimodal paradigm.

This book posits a bold reorganization of the structures of language,
and heralds a reconsideration of its guiding assumptions. Human
expressive behaviors like speaking, signing, and drawing may seem
distinct, but they decompose into similar cognitive building blocks
which coalesce in emergent states from a singular multimodal
communicative architecture. This cognitive model accounts for unimodal
and multimodal expression across all of our modalities, providing a
“grand unified theory” that incorporates insights from formal
linguistics, cognitive semantics, metaphor theory, Peircean semiotics,
sign language, gesture, visual language, psycholinguistics, and
cognitive neuroscience. Such a perspective reconfigures how we
understand linguistic structure, diversity, universals, innateness,
relativity, and evolution. A Multimodal Language Faculty directly
confronts centuries-old notions of language and offers a compelling
reimagination of what language is and how it works.

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
                     General Linguistics
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics

Written In: English (eng)



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