This textbook provides the first foundational introduction to the practice of analysing
multimodality, covering the full breadth of media and situations in which multimodality needs …

Cognitive linguists are increasingly extending their paradigm to include the study of
gestures. The bottom‐up, usage‐based approach in cognitive linguistics has advanced the …

1. Gespräch» widerlicher Kerl «. Auch dieses Gespräch wird mehrfach verwendet. Es
handelt sich um das Illustrationsbeispiel des GAT-Transkriptionssystems und wird mit G …

of state-of-the-art interdisciplinary research on metaphor and language. Featuring 35
chapters, written by leading scholars from around the world, the volume takes a broad view …

The present study addresses some of the fundamental issues and challenges of the
semiotics of gestures in cognitive linguistics. Showing that cognitive linguists have …

An unprecedented number of empirical studies have shown that iconic gestures—those that
mimic the sensorimotor attributes of a referent—contribute significantly to language …

Dieses Studienbuch liefert eine erste grundlegende und an praktischen Analysen orientierte
Einführung in das Thema Multimodalität in deutscher Sprache. LeserInnen lernen anhand …

essential reference work to cognitive linguistics. It encompasses a wide range of
perspectives and approaches, covering all the key areas of cognitive linguistics and drawing …

Empirical approaches based on qualitative or quantitative methods of corpus linguistics
have become a central paradigm within linguistics. The series takes account of this fact and …

The sign languages of deaf communities and the gestures produced by hearing people are
communicative systems that exploit the manual-visual modality as means of expression …