Multimodality in Chinese Interaction (Applications of Cognitive Linguistics) (Applications of Cognitive Linguistics [Acl])

"This book meets the demands of scholars of Chinese linguistics as well as researchers on multimodality from a cross-linguistic and comparative perspective. It sheds new light on the traditional study of Chinese discourse and grammar. The volume brings together leading scholars working on the state-of-the-art research on this topic from all over the world, contributing to the understanding of the multimodal nature of human interaction at large"-- Provided by publisher Honorary editor: René Dirven The series Applications of Cognitive Linguistics (ACL) welcomes book proposals from any domain where the theoretical insights developed in Cognitive Linguistics (CL) have been (or could be) fruitfully applied. In the past thirty-five years, the CL movement has articulated a rich and satisfying view of language around a small number of foundational principles. The first one argues that language faculties do not constitute a separate module of cognition, but emerge as specialized uses of more general cognitive abilities. The second principle emphasises the symbolic function of language. The grammar of individual languages (including the lexicon, morphology, and syntax) can be exclusively described as a structured inventory of conventionalized symbolic units. The third principle states that meaning is equated with conceptualization. It is subjective, anthropomorphic, and crucially incorporates humans' experience with their bodies and the world around them. Finally, CL's Usage-Based conception anchors the meaning of linguistic expressions in the rich soil of their social usage. Consequently, usage-related issues such as frequency and entrenchment contribute to their semantic import. Taken together, these principles provide researchers in different academic fields with a powerful theoretical framework for the investigation of linguistic issues in the specific context of their particular disciplines. The primary focus of ACL is to serve as a high level forum for the result of these investigations. To discuss your book idea or submit a proposal, please contact Birgit Sievert. Contents Introduction: A multimodal approach to Chinese interaction Part I: Theory and methodology Multimodality and the study of Chinese talk-in-interaction Researching multimodality in Chinese interaction: a methodological account Part II: Multimodal practices List gestures in Mandarin conversation and their implications for understanding multimodal interaction He Hand gestures and emergent speakership: A study of turn competition and gesticulation in Cantonese conversation Grounding and gestural repetition in Chinese conversational interaction Embodying stance: wo juede ‘I feel/think’ and gaze Part III: Multimodal organization of talk and interaction Multimodal turn construction in Mandarin conversation – Verbal, vocal, and visual practices in the construction of sytactically incomplete turns On co-operative modalities in the formulation of Mandarin Chinese turn-continuations Self-repair in Mandarin Chinese: The multimodality of conversation A multimodal analysis of tag questions in Mandarin Chinese multi-party conversation Index