Claudia Lehmann
List of John Benjamins publications in which Claudia Lehmann is involved.
2026 Oh, multimodality where art thou? Raised eyebrows in the constructional network Constructions and Frames 18:1, pp. 64–99 | Article
The present paper explores the network of language-related knowledge about multimodal, stance-related uses of Tell me about it (TMAI) with a particular focus on the co-verbal use of raised eyebrows. Employing a k-prototype analysis, the paper shows that stance-related uses of TMAI form five… read more
2025 Towards a functional perspective on multimodal constructions: Evidence from requesting and stance-related Tell me about it Multimodal Communication from a Construction Grammar Perspective, Nikiforidou, Kiki and Mirjam Fried (eds.), pp. 220–250 | Chapter
The paper argues in favor of taking a functional perspective on constructions. To this end, a stance-related construction, Tell me about it, and its multimodal delivery in spoken language will be analyzed on a larger scale using the NewsScape Library of International Television News (Steen &… read more
2023 Chapter 9. Multimodal markers of irony in televised discourse: A corpus-based approach Multimodal Im/politeness: Signed, spoken, written, Jucker, Andreas H., Iris Hübscher and Lucien Brown (eds.), pp. 251–272 | Chapter
This paper analyses multimodal features of two ironic constructions (Tell me about it and syntactically independent as if clauses) in television discourse. The results of the quantitative analysis show that a slower tempo, gaze aversion, raised eyebrows, smiles and head movements are features of… read more
2021 As if irony was in stock: The case of constructional ironies Constructions and Frames 13:2, pp. 309–339 | Article
The linguistic treatment of verbal irony has more often than not focused on novel, ad hoc ironies. Research in the last decade, however, suggests that there is a considerable number of utterances that are either schematic or lexically filled and interpreted as ironic by convention. By analyzing… read more