In:Aspectuality across Languages: Event construal in speech and gesture
Edited by Alan Cienki and Olga K. Iriskhanova
[Human Cognitive Processing 62] 2018
► pp. 7–60
Chapter 1Aspect through the lens of event construal
Published online: 25 October 2018
https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.62.c1
https://doi.org/10.1075/hcp.62.c1
Article outline
- 1.On events and aspect
- 1.1Events: An historical and philosophical overview
- 1.1.1Events as phenomena on the levels of cognition, language, and communication (Iriskhanova)
- 1.1.2Various approaches to the study of events in philosophy (Iriskhanova)
- 1.1.3Various approaches to the study of events in linguistics (Iriskhanova)
- 1.1.4Studying the internal structure of event construal: Points in common from philosophy and linguistics (Iriskhanova)
- 1.1.5Recent cognitive linguistic approaches (Cienki)
- 1.1.5.1Background on construal in cognitive linguistics
- 1.1.5.2Imaging systems in language
- 1.1.5.3Construal in cognitive grammar
- 1.1.5.4Looking ahead
- 1.2Aspect across traditions: Main lines of research (Iriskhanova, Morgenstern, Müller, Richter)
- 1.2.1Aspect – Aktionsart – Vid – Aspectuality
- 1.2.2Early studies of aspect in French, German, and Russian linguistics
- 1.2.3Present-day studies of aspect: Some specific issues
- 1.2.4Present-day studies of aspect: Points of convergence
- 1.2.4.1The influence of Anglo-American theories of aspect: Blurring grammatical and lexical aspect
- 1.2.4.2Using conceptual boundaries
- 1.2.5Conclusion
- 1.1Events: An historical and philosophical overview
- 2.Background on talk-based multimodal communication
- 2.1Thinking for speaking and gesturing (Cienki)
- 2.1.1Linguistic relativity hypothesis
- 2.1.2Thinking for speaking
- 2.2Gestures as movement
- 2.2.1Visual and proprioceptive modalities
- 2.2.1.1Gestures derive from imagistic thinking (Boutet)
- 2.2.1.2Visual perception of gestures (Boutet)
- 2.2.1.3The importance of proprioception (Boutet)
- 2.2.1.4‘Gain control’ (Becker)
- 2.2.2Gestures as motion events (Müller)
- 2.2.3Introducing the notion of boundary schemas (Müller)
- 2.2.1Visual and proprioceptive modalities
- 2.3Summing up: Aspect as amodal or as modality-dependent (Boutet, Morgenstern, Cienki)
- 2.1Thinking for speaking and gesturing (Cienki)
