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9781107017832

Viewpoint in Language : A Multimodal Perspective

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  • ISBN13:

    9781107017832

  • ISBN10:

    1107017831

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2012-04-16
  • Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

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Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction: viewpoint and perspective in language and gesture, from the ground up
Intersubjectivity and Subjectification
Irony as a viewpoint phenomenon
Subjectivity and upwards projection in mental space structure
Negation, stance verbs, and intersubjectivity
Gesture and Processing of Visual Information
Interactions between discourse status and viewpoint in co-speech gesture
Maybe what it means is he actually got the spot: physical and cognitive viewpoint in a gesture study
Multiple Viewpoints in American Sign Language
Reported speech as an evidentiality strategy in American sign language
Two ways of conceptualizing space: motivating the use of static and rotated vantage point space in ASL discourse
Constructions and Discourse
The constructional underpinnings of viewpoint blends: the Past+now in language and literature
Evoking discourse spaces in speech and thought representation
Conclusion: multiple viewpoints, multiple spaces
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