Alan Cienki

List of John Benjamins publications for which Alan Cienki plays a role.

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Aspectuality across Languages: Event construal in speech and gesture

Edited by Alan Cienki and Olga K. Iriskhanova

[Human Cognitive Processing, 62] 2018. xviii, 221 pp.
Subjects Cognition and language | Gesture Studies | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

Metaphor and Gesture

Edited by Alan Cienki and Cornelia Müller

[Gesture Studies, 3] 2008. ix, 306 pp.
Subjects Cognition and language | Gesture Studies
This article compares diachronic and cross-linguistic uses of source domains for framing the target domain of trade in governmental discourses under the presidencies of Bill Clinton, Jiang Zemin, Donald Trump, and Xi Jinping. Taking a socio-cognitive approach, we examine trade metaphor use… read more
Smedinga, Marthe, Alan Cienki and Henk W. de Regt 2023 Metaphors as tools for understanding in science communication among experts and to the publicMetaphor and the Social World 13:2, pp. 248–268 | Article
Science communication is highly important in present-day society. But mere factual information transfer does not suffice for enhancing public understanding of scientific results, theories, and concepts. In this paper we compare science communication among experts with communication from experts… read more
Cienki, Alan 2022 Epilogue. Creative to whom, and on what basis? The role of perspectiveTime Representations in the Perspective of Human Creativity, Piata, Anna, Adriana Gordejuela and Daniel Alcaraz Carrión (eds.), pp. 233–242 | Chapter
This epilogue considers creativity from three different perspectives: that of the producer of the expression, of the person paying attention to the expression (the attender) in the same context, and of any attender from a different time and place than that in which the expression was produced.… read more
Cienki, Alan and Michael O’Connor 2022 Researching embodied metaphor production through improvisational dance practiceDynamism in Metaphor and Beyond, Colston, Herbert L., Teenie Matlock and Gerard J. Steen (eds.), pp. 63–76 | Chapter
This contribution considers how artistic research based on the development of a form of practice for improvisational dance draws upon, and helps develop, theory from cognitive linguistics and principles from the phenomenology of movement. Dancers given the task of translating the sound of a… read more
Metacommunicative awareness (MCA) is proposed as a scalar phenomenon of being aware, to different possible degrees, that the form and/or content of how you are acting could communicate something to someone else. Observable signals of possible MCA that are based on greater use of effort are… read more
Kok, Kasper, Kirsten Bergmann, Alan Cienki and Stefan Kopp 2016 Mapping out the multifunctionality of speakers’ gesturesGesture 15:1, pp. 37–59 | Article
Although it is widely acknowledged that gestures are complex functional elements of human communication, many current functional classification systems are rather rigid, implicitly assuming gestures to perform only one function at any given time. In this paper, we present a theoretical view on… read more
The study of coordination, collaboration, and cooperation brings to the fore a number of questions concerning the cognitive status of the various forms of behaviors that are involved. In this article, we will briefly consider coordination, collaboration, and cooperation in terms of their respective… read more
Cienki, Alan 2015 Image schemas and mimetic schemas in cognitive linguistics and gesture studiesMultimodality and Cognitive Linguistics, Pinar Sanz, María Jesús (ed.), pp. 195–209 | Article
Image schemas have been a fundamental construct in cognitive linguistics, providing grounds for psychological, philosophical, as well as linguistic research. Given the focus in cognitive linguistics on embodied experience as a fundamental basis for language structure and meaning, the employment of… read more
Cienki, Alan 2014 PART III: IntroductionFrom Text to Political Positions: Text analysis across disciplines, Kaal, Bertie, Isa Maks and Annemarie van Elfrinkhof (eds.), pp. 271–274 | Article
Cienki, Alan and Gianluca Giansante 2014 Conversational framing in televised political discourse: A comparison from the 2008 elections in the United States and ItalyCognitive Perspectives on Political Discourse, Fischer, Pascal and Christoph Schubert (eds.), pp. 255–288 | Article
The present study applies the notion of framing by examining how politicians may frame themselves as conversation partners with the audience, even in the virtual environment of television (and Internet video). The hypothesis is that ‘populist’ politicians are more likely than other kinds to frame… read more
Cienki, Alan 2013 Image schemas and mimetic schemas in cognitive linguistics and gesture studiesMultimodality and Cognitive Linguistics, Pinar Sanz, María Jesús (ed.), pp. 417–432 | Article
Image schemas have been a fundamental construct in cognitive linguistics, providing grounds for psychological, philosophical, as well as linguistic research. Given the focus in cognitive linguistics on embodied experience as a fundamental basis for language structure and meaning, the employment of… read more
Cienki, Alan 2008 Why study metaphor and gesture?Metaphor and Gesture, Cienki, Alan and Cornelia Müller (eds.), pp. 5–25 | Article
There are numerous ways to research gestures which represent abstract notions, and this paper begins with an overview of some of them which are represented in the current volume – from various semiotic approaches to experimental psychological studies. Then particular attention is given to… read more
Cienki, Alan and Cornelia Müller 2008 IntroductionMetaphor and Gesture, Cienki, Alan and Cornelia Müller (eds.), pp. 1–4 | Miscellaneous
Cienki, Alan 2005 The metaphorical use of family terms versus other nouns in political debatesIdentifying information and tenor in texts, Lagerwerf, Luuk, Wilbert Spooren and Liesbeth Degand (eds.), pp. 27–39 | Article
Lakoff (1996) analyzes American political positions in terms of two different sets of conceptual metaphors: the right wing ‘Strict Father’ (SF) model and the left wing ‘Nurturant Parent’ (NP) model. The current study is an empirical test of the degree to which these models were manifested in the… read more
This article considers the similarities and differences between two types of semantically-based approaches to the study of grammatical case. One approach, which views the basic meanings of cases as spatial, stems from the localist hypothesis, which claims that spatial expressions serve as… read more