Handouts - Ten Lectures on Spoken Language and Gesture from the Perspective of Cognitive Linguistics

Cognitive linguistics is purported to be a usage-based approach, yet only recently has research in some of its subfields turned to spontaneous spoken (versus written) language data. The collection of Alan Cienki’s <i>Ten Lectures on Spoken Language and Gesture from the Perspective of Cognitive Linguistics</i> considers what it means to apply different approaches from within this field to the dynamic, multimodal combination of speech and gesture. The lectures encompass such main paradigms as blending and mental space theory, conceptual metaphor and metonymy, construction and cognitive grammars, image schemas, and mental simulation in relation to semantics. Overall, Alan Cienki shows that taking the usage-based commitment seriously with audio-visual data raises new issues and questions for theoretical models in cognitive linguistics. The lectures for this book were given at The China International Forum on Cognitive Linguistics in May 2013.

认知语言学（Cognitive Linguistics）向来被普遍认为是基于语言使用的研究范式，但直至近年，其部分子领域的研究才转向自然口语（相较于书面语）语料。艾伦·琴基（Alan Cienki）所著《认知语言学视角下的口语与手势十讲》（Ten Lectures on Spoken Language and Gesture from the Perspective of Cognitive Linguistics）一书，探讨了将认知语言学领域内的不同研究范式应用于言语与手势这一动态多模态结合体的理论内涵。该演讲集涵盖了以下核心研究范式：合成理论（Blending Theory）与心理空间理论（Mental Space Theory）、概念隐喻（Conceptual Metaphor）与概念转喻（Conceptual Metonymy）、构式语法（Construction Grammar）与认知语法（Cognitive Grammar）、意象图式（Image Schemas），以及与语义学相关的心理模拟（Mental Simulation）。总体而言，艾伦·琴基指出，将基于使用的研究原则严谨落实于视听语料（Audio-visual Data）的分析，将为认知语言学的理论模型带来诸多全新议题与研究问题。本书收录的演讲，均为2013年5月在“中国认知语言学国际论坛（The China International Forum on Cognitive Linguistics）”上所作的报告。