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Multimodality and Construction Grammar by Elisabeth Zima; Alexander Bergs is a Arts and Humanities article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Multimodality and Construction Grammar about?
The meaning-making process in face-to-face interaction relies on the integration of meaningful information being conveyed by speech as well as the tone of voice, facial expressions, hand and head gestures, body postures and movements (McNeill 1992;Kendon 2004). Hence, it is inherently multimodal. Usage-based linguistics attributes language use a fundamental role in linguistic theorizing by positing that the language system is grounded in and abstracted from (multimodal) language use. However, despite this inherent epistemological link, usage-based linguists have hitherto conceptualized language as a system of interconnected verbal, i. e. monomodal units, leaving nonverbal usage aspects and the question of their potential entrenchment as part of language largely out of the picture. This isat least at first sightsurprising because the usage-based model of Construction Grammar (C × G) seems particularly well-equipped to unite the natural interest of linguists in the units that define language systems with the multimodality of language use. Constructions are conceptualized as holistic "conventionalized clusters of features (syntactic, prosodic, pragmatic, semantic, textual, etc.) that
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- Author
- Elisabeth Zima; Alexander Bergs
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter GmbH
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)