Aspectuality across languages : event construal in speech and gesture / [edited by] Alan Cienki, Olga K. Iriskhanova.

"The book provides a nuanced, multimodal perspective on how people express events via certain grammatical forms of verbs in speech and certain qualities of movement in manual gestures. The volume is the outcome of an international project that involved three teams: one each from France, Germany...

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Online Access:Electronic book from EBSCO
Other Authors: Cienki, Alan J. (Editor) Iriskhanova, O. K. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published:Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2018]
Series:Human cognitive processing ; v. 62.
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Table of Contents:
  • Aspect through the lens of event construal
  • Researching aspect in multimodal communication: consequences for data and methods
  • Speakers' verbal expression of event construal: quantitative and qualitative analyses
  • Speakers' gestural expression of event construal: quantitative and qualitative analyses
  • Looking ahead: kinesiological analysis
  • Comprehension of event construal from multimodal communication
  • The need for interdisciplinary collaboration.