Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material -- Spoken Language Semantics -- Gesture with Spoken Language: Redundant or Complementary? -- Schemas in Cognitive Linguistic Theory and in Gesture Studies -- Metonymy, Reference Points, and Gesture -- The Variety of Metaphor in Speech and Gesture -- Gesture with Speech in Relation to Mental Space Theory and Blending Theory -- Semantic Analysis of Language as Dynamic and Multimodal: Simulation and Conceptualization -- Grammatical Theory in Cognitive Linguistics in Relation to Multimodality -- Language as a Prototype Category -- Synergies between Cognitive Linguistics and Other Fields of Study: Projects in the Amsterdam Gesture Center -- Important Resources for Cognitive Linguistics suggested by the cifcl -- Appendix.

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Cognitive linguistics is purported to be a usage-based approach, yet only recently has research in some of its subfields turned to spontaneous spoken (versus written) language data. The collection of Alan Cienki’s Ten Lectures on Spoken Language and Gesture from the Perspective of Cognitive Linguistics considers what it means to apply different approaches from within this field to the dynamic, multimodal combination of speech and gesture. The lectures encompass such main paradigms as blending and mental space theory, conceptual metaphor and metonymy, construction and cognitive grammars, image schemas, and mental simulation in relation to semantics. Overall, Alan Cienki shows that taking the usage-based commitment seriously with audio-visual data raises new issues and questions for theoretical models in cognitive linguistics. The lectures for this book were given at The China International Forum on Cognitive Linguistics in May 2013.