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Aspectuality across Languages: Event construal in speech and gesture
Edited by Alan Cienki and Olga K. Iriskhanova
[
Human Cognitive Processing
62] 2018
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Chapter 1
Aspect through the lens of event construal
Article outline
1.
On events and aspect
1.1
Events: An historical and philosophical overview
1.1.1
Events as phenomena on the levels of cognition, language, and communication (Iriskhanova)
1.1.2
Various approaches to the study of events in philosophy (Iriskhanova)
1.1.3
Various approaches to the study of events in linguistics (Iriskhanova)
1.1.4
Studying the internal structure of event construal: Points in common from philosophy and linguistics (Iriskhanova)
1.1.5
Recent cognitive linguistic approaches (Cienki)
1.1.5.1
Background on construal in cognitive linguistics
1.1.5.2
Imaging systems in language
1.1.5.3
Construal in cognitive grammar
1.1.5.4
Looking ahead
1.2
Aspect across traditions: Main lines of research (Iriskhanova, Morgenstern, Müller, Richter)
1.2.1
Aspect – Aktionsart –
Vid
– Aspectuality
1.2.2
Early studies of aspect in French, German, and Russian linguistics
1.2.3
Present-day studies of aspect: Some specific issues
1.2.4
Present-day studies of aspect: Points of convergence
1.2.4.1
The influence of Anglo-American theories of aspect: Blurring grammatical and lexical aspect
1.2.4.2
Using conceptual boundaries
1.2.5
Conclusion
2.
Background on talk-based multimodal communication
2.1
Thinking for speaking and gesturing (Cienki)
2.1.1
Linguistic relativity hypothesis
2.1.2
Thinking for speaking
2.2
Gestures as movement
2.2.1
Visual and proprioceptive modalities
2.2.1.1
Gestures derive from imagistic thinking (Boutet)
2.2.1.2
Visual perception of gestures (Boutet)
2.2.1.3
The importance of proprioception (Boutet)
2.2.1.4
‘Gain control’ (Becker)
2.2.2
Gestures as motion events (Müller)
2.2.3
Introducing the notion of boundary schemas (Müller)
2.3
Summing up: Aspect as amodal or as modality-dependent (Boutet, Morgenstern, Cienki)