A Multimodal Language Faculty

A Multimodal Language Faculty
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 381
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ISBN-10 : 9781350402430
ISBN-13 : 1350402435
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Book Synopsis A Multimodal Language Faculty by : Neil Cohn

Download or read book A Multimodal Language Faculty written by Neil Cohn and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-05-16 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Natural human communication is multimodal. We pair speech with gestures, and combine writing with pictures from online messaging to comics to advertising. This richness of human communication remains unaddressed in linguistic and cognitive theories which maintain traditional amodal assumptions about language. What is needed is a new, multimodal paradigm. This book posits a bold reorganization of the structures of language, and heralds a reconsideration of its guiding assumptions. Human expressive behaviors like speaking, signing, and drawing may seem distinct, but they decompose into similar cognitive building blocks which coalesce in emergent states from a singular multimodal communicative architecture. This cognitive model accounts for unimodal and multimodal expression across all of our modalities, providing a “grand unified theory” that incorporates insights from formal linguistics, cognitive semantics, metaphor theory, Peircean semiotics, sign language, gesture, visual language, psycholinguistics, and cognitive neuroscience. Such a perspective reconfigures how we understand linguistic structure, diversity, universals, innateness, relativity, and evolution. A Multimodal Language Faculty directly confronts centuries-old notions of language and offers a compelling reimagination of what language is and how it works.


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