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Theory and data in cognitive linguistics /
How do people describe events they have witnessed? What role does linguistic aspect play in this process? To provide answers to these questions, we conducted an experiment on aspectual framing. In our task, people were asked to view videotaped vehicular accidents and to describe what happened (perfe...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam ; Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
[2014]
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| Colección: | Benjamins current topics ;
v. 67. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | How do people describe events they have witnessed? What role does linguistic aspect play in this process? To provide answers to these questions, we conducted an experiment on aspectual framing. In our task, people were asked to view videotaped vehicular accidents and to describe what happened (perfective framing) or what was happening (imperfective framing). Our analyses of speech and gesture in retellings show that the form of aspect used in the question differentially influenced the way people conceptualized and described actions. Questions framed with imperfective aspect resulted in more mo. |
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| Notas: | "The genesis of this volume was a workshop at the Societas Linguistica Europaea conference in Vilnius in 2010, organised by Hollmann and Gisborne, on the ques-tion of what specific contribution cognitive linguistics has made to the gathering and analysis of linguistic data." |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (262 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789027269607 9027269602 1322111375 9781322111377 |
| ISSN: | 1874-0081 ; |