Given its usage-oriented character, Cognitive Grammar (CG) can be expected to be
consonant with a multimodal, rather than text-only, perspective on language. Whereas …

Summary Construction Grammar (CxG) has developed into a broad and highly diverse
family of approaches that have in common that they see constructions, ie form-meaning …

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

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 …

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 …

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

This book examines emblems (or emblematic gestures) from a pragmatic view, that is to say,
as autonomous gestures that fulfill communicative functions, embody illocutionary values …

This paper presents an account of how Peirce's Universal Categories (UCs) of perception
and experience may, as heuristic principles, inform gesture theory and multimodal analysis …

Gricean Circle, 84 Gricean Maxims, 353, 373 grounding biological, 3, 349, 354, 358, 372,
373 cognitive, 109, 117 hedge attitudinal hedge, 326, 330, 338, 341 epistemic hedge, 323 …

Over the past decades, the field of sign language linguistics has expanded considerably.
Recent research on sign languages includes a wide range of subdomains such as reference …