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Viewpoint in Language: A Multimodal Perspective

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Viewpoint in Language: A Multimodal Perspective

Author:   Barbara Dancygier ,  Eve Sweetser
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
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9781107017832


Pages:   254
Publication Date:   12 April 2012
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Barbara Dancygier ,  Eve Sweetser
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.80cm
Weight:   0.540kg
ISBN:  

9781107017832


ISBN 10:   1107017831
Pages:   254
Publication Date:   12 April 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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.

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Barbara Dancygier is a professor in the Department of English at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Eve Sweetser is a professor in the Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley.

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