Abstract Since its conception, Cognitive Linguistics as a theory of language has been
enjoying ever increasing success worldwide. With quantitative growth has come qualitative …

Abstract The fields of Cognitive Linguistics and gesture studies have begun to find each
other of great interest in recent years. The cross-recognition is making for a healthy …

The Multimodal Performance of Conversational Humor Page 1 The Multimodal Performance of
Conversational Humor Figurative Thought and Language 13 John Benjamins Publishing …

In contrast to symbol-manipulation approaches, Cognitive Linguistics offers a modal rather
than an amodal account of meaning in language. From this perspective, the meanings …

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 …

This paper presents a usage-based, Cognitive Grammar analysis of Place as a symbolic
structure in signed languages. We suggest that many signs are better viewed as …

The framework of depicting put forward by offers a schematic vantage point from which to
examine iconic language use. Confronting the framework with empirical data, we consider …

Metaphors in gesture and speech play a pivotal role in the way that programming concepts
are presented in the classroom. However, little is known about the function of teachers' …

Critical discourse analysis (CDA) increasingly recognises the role played by multiple
semiotic modes in the discursive construction of social identities and inequalities. One …

Bilinguals tend to produce more co-speech hand gestures to compensate for reduced
communicative proficiency when speaking in their L2. We here investigated L1-Turkish and …