Multimodal Communication from a Construction Grammar Perspective
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The volume is of direct interest to scholars, from senior academics to PhD students, interested in linguistically relevant phonetic and gestural information and in the relationship between multimodal communication and grammar. It contains important work in a relatively new, dynamic and exploratory field that is receiving a lot of attention, namely the relation of multimodal communication with grammatical frameworks, notably Construction Grammar. Drawing on case studies in different languages (English, Modern Greek, Czech, Hebrew, Italian), the chapters provide both the necessary theoretical discussion and solid empirical evidence (corpus-based or experimental) for integrating multimodal interactional features with grammatical description and analysis. This timely collection of studies highlights the recent marriage of cognitive/constructional and interactional approaches and addresses head-on questions and challenges like: which multimodal features are systematic and conventional enough to be integrated into grammar and what are appropriate ways of achieving the integration.
[Constructional Approaches to Language, 38] Expected February 2025. v, 312 pp. + index
Publishing status: In production
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Table of Contents
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Grammar and multimodality: An introductionKiki Nikiforidou and Mirjam Fried | pp. 1–23
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Part I. Construction grammar, multimodal communication, and design features of language
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Construction grammar, multimodal communication, and design features of language: Preliminaries to a consistent research programArie Verhagen | pp. 26–37
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Multimodality, conventionality and inheritance in dialogic constructionsKiki Nikiforidou | pp. 38–69
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Utterance comprehension in spontaneous speech: Phonetic reductions and lexico-grammatical contextPavel Machač and Mirjam Fried | pp. 70–114
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The prosody of list constructionsFrancesca Masini, Claudia Roberta Combei and Roberta Cicchirillo | pp. 115–150
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A multimodal approach to coordination in spontaneous conversationManon Lelandais | pp. 151–187
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Part II. An evidential function of raised eyebrows in interaction
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An evidential function of raised eyebrows in interaction: Marking a differential in expectationsCamille Debras | pp. 190–219
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Towards a functional perspective on multimodal constructions: Evidence from requesting and stance-related Tell me about itClaudia Lehmann | pp. 220–250
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Contrastive negation constructions in Israeli Hebrew: A multimodal approachAnna Inbar | pp. 251–284
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Pragmatic and prosodic aspects of the negative directive ðe mu les? (‘tell me’) in Greek conversationAngeliki Alvanoudi | pp. 285–312
Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFK: Grammar, syntax
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009060: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Syntax