Cognitive Linguistics: 7 Multimodal Communication

In this video, we look at multimodal communication. We investigate the various types of gestures that accompany language and offer a Construction Grammar analysis of multimodal utterances.

For more details, cf. (pre-publication versions available on Academia and ResearchGate):

Hoffmann, Thomas. 2017. Multimodal constructs – multimodal constructions? The role of constructions in the working memory. Linguistics Vanguard 3.1.

Hoffmann, Thomas. 2019. Language and creativity: A Construction Grammar approach to linguistic creativity. Linguistics Vanguard 5.1.

Hoffmann, Thomas 2021. Multimodal Construction Grammar: From multimodal constructs to multimodal constructions. In X. Wen & J. R. Taylor, eds. The Routledge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics. New York, London: Routledge.