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）向来被认为是基于用法的研究路径，但其诸多子领域直至近年才开始采用自然口语（相较于书面语）语料开展相关研究。艾伦·琴基（Alan Cienki）所著的《从认知语言学视角论口语与手势十讲》（Ten Lectures on Spoken Language and Gesture from the Perspective of Cognitive Linguistics）一书，探讨了将该领域内的各类研究路径应用于言语与手势这一动态多模态结合体的理论内涵。该讲座涵盖了概念整合（blending）与心理空间理论（mental space theory）、概念隐喻与转喻（conceptual metaphor and metonymy）、构式语法与认知语法（construction and cognitive grammars）、意象图式（image schemas）以及与语义学相关的心理模拟（mental simulation）等核心研究范式。总体而言，艾伦·琴基通过本书阐明，若严格遵循基于用法的研究理念并结合音视频语料开展研究，将为认知语言学的理论模型带来全新的议题与研究问题。本书所收录的讲座，均于2013年5月在中国认知语言学国际论坛上发表。