Description
Multimodal Construction Grammar presents a comprehensive examination of how construction grammar principles apply across multiple communicative modes beyond traditional written and spoken language. Elisabeth Zima investigates the intricate ways that speakers and signers integrate gesture, facial expressions, and other visual elements with language to create meaning.
This volume demonstrates that grammar is not confined to words and sentences alone, but extends across integrated multimodal systems. The book provides theoretical frameworks and empirical evidence for understanding how constructions operate when language combines with gesture, sign language, and other modalities. Zima’s work challenges traditional linguistic boundaries and offers new insights into how humans flexibly use multiple communicative resources simultaneously.
Part of the Elements in Construction Grammar series, this book is essential for linguists, cognitive scientists, and communication scholars interested in contemporary approaches to grammar and multimodal communication.
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