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Viewpoint in language : a multimodal perspective /

"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 al...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Dancygier, Barbara, Sweetser, Eve
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: viewpoint and perspective in language and gesture, from the ground down / Eve Sweetser
  • Part I. Intersubjectivity and Subjectification: 1. Irony as a viewpoint phenomenon / Vera Tobin and Michael Israel; 2. Subjectivity and upwards projection in mental space structure / Lilian Ferrari and Eve Sweetser; 3. Negation, stance verbs, and intersubjectivity / Barbara Dancygier
  • Part II. Gesture and Processing of Visual Information: 4. Interactions between discourse status and viewpoint in co-speech gesture / Fey Parrill; 5. Maybe what it means is he actually got the spot: physical and cognitive viewpoint in a gesture study / Shweta Narayan
  • Part III. Multiple Viewpoints in American Sign Language: 6. Reported speech as an evidentiality strategy in American sign language / Barbara Shaffer; 7. Two ways of conceptualizing space: motivating the use of static and rotated vantage point space in ASL discourse / Terry Janzen
  • Part IV. Constructions and Discourse: 8. The constructional underpinnings of viewpoint blends: the Past+now in language and literature / Kiki Nikiforidou; 9. "Wait till you got started": how to subjerge another's discourse in your own / Lieven Vandelanotte
  • Conclusion: multiple viewpoints, multiple spaces / Barbara Dancygier.