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Este libro forma parte de una colección de volúmenes enfocados al ámbito de la investigación en lingüística cognitiva. Esta obra resulta de gran interés por los estudios que presentan en torno al análisis de las lenguas de señas, y del gesto, así como por la discusión que se  ofrece sobre cómo los usuarios de las lenguas de señas y de las lenguas orales articulan el gesto en su comunicación.

Se compone de cinco apartados en los cuales participan investigadores que estudian diferentes lenguas de señas, y en cuyos trabajos  podemos observar el reflejo de los intereses que han guiado la investigación de Sherman Wilcox, a quien está dedicado este libro, un autor destacado por su trabajo pionero en el estudio de las lenguas de modalidad visogestual desde la perspectiva de la lingüística cognitiva.

Este volumen se cierra con un sexto y último apartado, a manera de comentario final, el cual fue escrito por Adam Kendon, quien nos conduce a una reflexión sobre cómo el estudio de las lenguas de señas y de los gestos han contribuido en nuestro conocimiento sobre el lenguaje y el pensamiento.

Información sobre los editores: Terry Janzen (University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada); Barbara Shaffer (University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA)

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This volume represents the first time that researchers on signed language and gesture have come together with a coherent focus under the framework of cognitive linguistics. The pioneering work of Sherman Wilcox is highlighted throughout, scaffolding much of the research of these contributors. The five sections of the volume reflect critical areas of Dr. Wilcox’s own research in cognitive linguistics: Guiding research principles in signed language, gesture, and cognitive linguistics; iconicity across signed and spoken linguistics; multimodality; blending, depiction and metaphor in signed languages; and specific grammatical constructions as form-meaning pairings. The authors of this volume exemplify and continue Dr. Wilcox’s work of bridging signed and spoken language disciplines by contributing chapters that represent a multiplicity of perspectives on signed, spoken, and gesture data. This volume presents a unified collection of cognitive linguistics research by leading authors that will be of interest to readers in the fields of signed and spoken language linguistics, gesture studies, and general linguistics.

Author / Editor information: Terry Janzen, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada; Barbara Shaffer, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA.

Acknowledgements

Cornelia Müller. Foreword

Terry Janzen and Barbara Shaffer. Introduction: Examining signed language and gesture research within the domain of cognitive linguistics

I Guiding principles for signed and spoken language research

Penny Boyes Braem and Virginia Volterra. Through the signed language glass: Changing and converging views in spoken and signed language research

Elena Antinoro Pizzuto and Brigitte Garcia. Coming back to the issue of the graphic representation of signed language discourse in signed language linguistics 

Paola Pietrandrea. What is a language? A socio-semiotic approach to signed and spoken languages

II Iconicity in spoken and signed language 

Ronald W. Langacker. Structure, iconicity, and access

Corrine Occhino. When hands are things and movements are processes: Cognitive iconicity, embodied cognition, and signed language structure

III Multimodality

Eve Sweetser. Gestural meaning is in the body (-space) as much as in the hands

Laura Ruth-Hirrel. A Place for joint action in multimodal constructions

Terry Janzen, Barbara Shaffer, and Lorraine Leeson. What I know is here; what I don't know is somewhere else: Deixis and gesture spaces in American Sign Language and Irish Sign Language

Darren Saunders and Anne-Marie Parisot. Insights on the use of narrative perspectives in signed and spoken discourse in Quebec Sign Language, American Sign Language, and Quebec French

IV Blending and metaphor

Anna-Lena Nilsson. Exploring Real Space blends as indicators of discourse complexity in Swedish Sign Language

Tommaso Russo and Paola Pietrandrea. Metaphors and blending in Italian Sign Language discourse: A window on the interaction of language and thought

V Grammatical constructions

Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen. The mouth shrug and facial consent in Danish Sign Language

Erin Wilkinson, Ryan Lepic, and Lynn Hou. Usage-based grammar: Multi-word expressions in American Sign Language

André Nogueira Xavier and Rocío Anabel Martínez. Possibility modals in Brazilian Sign Language and Argentine Sign Language: A contrastive study

Sara Siyavoshi. The semantics of relative clause constructions in Iranian Sign Language

VI Concluding commentary

Adam Kendon. Language in the light of sign and gesture

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