LINGUIST List 26.4369

Mon Oct 05 2015

Books: Viewpoint in Language: Dancygier, Sweetser (eds.)

Editor for this issue: Sara Couture <saralinguistlist.org>

Date: 01-Oct-2015
From: Katie Laker <klakercambridge.org>
Subject: Viewpoint in Language: Dancygier, Sweetser (eds.)
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Title: Viewpoint in Language
Subtitle: A Multimodal Perspective
Published: 2015
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
                http://cambridge.org

Book URL: http://bit.ly/1jKWuI5

Editor: Barbara Dancygier
Editor: Eve Sweetser
Paperback: ISBN: 9781107569300 Pages: Price: U.S. $ 44.99
Paperback: ISBN: 9781107569300 Pages: Price: U.K. £ 27.99
Abstract:

Editor's Note: This is a new paperback edition of a previously announced book.

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.

Introduction: viewpoint and perspective in language and gesture, from the ground up - Eve Sweetser; Part I. Intersubjectivity and Subjectification: 1. Irony as a viewpoint phenomenon - Vera Tobin and Michael Israel; 2. Subjectivity and upwards projection in mental space structure - Lilian Ferrari and Eve Sweetser; 3. Negation, stance verbs, and intersubjectivity - Barbara Dancygier; Part II. Gesture and Processing of Visual Information: 4. Interactions between discourse status and viewpoint in co-speech gesture - Fey Parrill; 5. Maybe what it means is he actually got the spot: physical and cognitive viewpoint in a gesture study - Shweta Narayan; Part III. Multiple Viewpoints in American Sign Language: 6. Reported speech as an evidentiality strategy in American sign language - Barbara Shaffer; 7. Two ways of conceptualizing space: motivating the use of static and rotated vantage point space in ASL discourse - Terry Janzen; Part IV. Constructions and Discourse: 8. The constructional underpinnings of viewpoint blends: the Past+now in language and literature - Kiki Nikiforidou; 9. Evoking discourse spaces in speech and thought representation - Lieven Vandelanotte; Conclusion: multiple viewpoints, multiple spaces - Barbara Dancygier.

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                            Discourse Analysis
                            General Linguistics
                            Ling & Literature
                            Pragmatics

Subject Language(s): American Sign Language (ase)

Written In: English (eng)

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http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=91317


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