A Multimodal View of Aspectuality in Oral Narratives

Valeriia Denisova

ISBN 10: 3631787936 / ISBN 13: 9783631787939

Verlag: Peter Lang Sep 2019, 2019

Beschreibung

Neuware -The book focuses on event boundedness which can be expressed in the aspectual distinction (perfective and imperfective) and on kinesthetic level between gestures that include one or several energy impulses (bounded) and smooth gestures (unbounded). The correlation of verbal and gestural expression of event boundedness is studied on the basis of oral narratives produced by Russian L1, French L1 and (Russians as) French L2 speakers. The results reveal differences in event construal in multimodal terms by speakers of different languages. Overall, the book gives insight into not only the category of aspect, but also the ways in which it is realized in spontaneous oral narratives, and more generally: event construal on the verbal and gestural levels.Lang, Peter GmbH, Gontardstraße 11, 10178 Berlin 206 pp. Englisch.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9783631787939

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: A Multimodal View of Aspectuality in Oral Narratives
• Verlag: Peter Lang Sep 2019
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 3631787936
• ISBN-13: 9783631787939
• Einband: Buch
• Zustand: Neu
• Abmessungen: 216B x 153 H x 15 T Millimeter Breite: 216 mm, Höhe: 153 mm, Tiefe: 15 mm
• Gewicht: 385 Gramm

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Inhaltsangabe

The book considers the ways in which people construe events as bounded and unbounded in oral communication, using aspectual forms and co-speech gestures. The results reveal differences in event construal in multimodal terms by speakers of Russian and French, marking the ways in which boundedness is realized in spontaneous oral narratives.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Valeriia Denisova studied linguistics and foreign language teaching in Moscow State Linguistic University (MSLU). Further on, she obtained a PhD, doing a double degree in MSLU and VU Amsterdam. Her research is conducted in the framework of cognitive linguistics and multimodal communication.