TY - BOOK AU - Valeriia Denisova PY - 2019 CY - Berlin, Germany PB - Peter Lang Verlag SN - 2363-815X SN - 9783631795149 TI - A Multimodal View of Aspectuality in Oral Narratives DO - 10.3726/b15856 UR - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1111052 N2 - The book focuses on event boundedness which can be expressed in the aspectual distinction (perfective and imperfective) and on kinesthetic level between gestures that include one or several energy impulses (bounded) and smooth gestures (unbounded). The correlation of verbal and gestural expression of event boundedness is studied on the basis of oral narratives produced by Russian L1, French L1 and (Russians as) French L2 speakers. The results reveal differences in event construal in multimodal terms by speakers of different languages. Overall, the book gives insight into not only the category of aspect, but also the ways in which it is realized in spontaneous oral narratives, and more generally: event construal on the verbal and gestural levels. KW - Cognitive linguistics, Russian, French, aspect, co-speech gestures, events LA - English ER -