Viewpoint in Language: A Multimodal PerspectiveBarbara Dancygier, Eve Sweetser What makes us talk about viewpoint and perspective in linguistic analyses and in literary texts, as well as in landscape art? Is this shared vocabulary marking real connections between the disparate phenomena? This volume argues that human cognition is not only rooted in the human body, but also inherently 'viewpointed' as a result; consequently, so are language and communication. Dancygier and Sweetser bring together researchers who do not typically meet on common ground: analysts of narrative and literary style, linguists examining the uses of grammatical forms in signed and spoken languages, and analysts of gesture accompanying speech. Using models developed within cognitive linguistics, the book uncovers surprising functional similarities across various communicative forms, arguing for specific cognitive underpinnings of such correlations. What emerges is a new understanding of the role and structure of viewpoint and a groundbreaking methodology for investigating communicative choices across various modalities and discourse contexts. |
Contents
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Part I Intersubjectivity and subjectification | 23 |
Part II Gesture and processing of visual information | 95 |
Part III Multiple viewpoints in American Sign Language | 137 |
Part IV Constructions and discourse | 175 |
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Common terms and phrases
accessible addressee alignment alternative American Sign Language analysis articulation space Base Space BCSN body shifts Borges Cambridge University Press Character Viewpoint character’s Cognitive Grammar Cognitive Linguistics complement space complex conceptual Conceptual Blending construal Construction Grammar constructions Content Space current speaker deixis described discourse discussed DIST distance Dudis embedded entity epistemic stance Eve Sweetser evidential example eye gaze Fauconnier Figure Focus Space frame of reference gestural viewpoint Gilles Fauconnier Grammar grammaticalization hearer image schema interaction interlocutor interpretation intersubjective involves ironic Janzen Langacker lexical Listener Listener’s markers marking meaning mental space mentally rotated space modal narrative narrator narrator’s negation Parrill participants perspective present profiled pronouns Real Space Blend represented speaker represented speech scene semantic semantic change signer space network spatial speech act speech and thought stance verbs static space subjectification subjectivity suggest Traugott understanding utterance vantage point verbal irony Verhagen Viewpoint gestures Viewpoint Space volume