E-Book, Englisch, Band 28, 337 Seiten
Tutton Locative Expressions in English and French
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-3-11-039410-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark
A Multimodal Approach
E-Book, Englisch, Band 28, 337 Seiten
Reihe: Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [ACL]
ISBN: 978-3-11-039410-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark
Expressing location is one of the most common linguistic tasks that we perform in our daily lives. This book provides the first comprehensive analysis into how speakers of English and French use gesture as well as speech when describing where objects are located. It shows that spoken locative expressions are made up of both speech and gesture components, and that the two modalities contribute in a complementary fashion to convey locative meaning.
Zielgruppe
Scholars working on Spatial Language, Researchers with a General