Integrating Gestures: The Dimension of Multimodality in Cognitive Grammar

by Silva Ladewig

Gestures are now viewed as an integral part of spoken language. But little attention has been paid to the recipients' cognitive processes of integrating both gesture and speech. How do people understand a speaker's gestures when inserted into gaps in the flow of speech? What cognitive-semiotic mechanisms allow this integration to occur? And what linguistic and gestural properties do people draw on when construing multimodal meaning? This book offers...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110668416
• ISBN13: 9783110668414
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
• Length: 237 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary