A Multimodal Language Faculty by Neil Cohn, Joost Schilperoord - 9781350402416

A Multimodal Language FacultyA Cognitive Framework for Human Communication\nAuthor(s): Neil Cohn, Joost Schilperoord\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Bloomsbury Academic\nISBN-13: 9781350402416, 978-1350402416\nSynopsis\nNatural 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.\n\nThis 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 cognit.