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Repetitive sequences play a major role as a pattern-building device
and are a basic syntagmatic linguistic means on all language levels
in spoken and signed languages. Little attention has been paid to
investigating them in multimodal language use. Do gestures exhibit
different types of repetitive sequences? Do they build complex
units based on these types and if so, how is the pattern building
to be described? How is the interrelation of gestural and spoken
units in such complex units? Is it possible to identify repetitive
patterns that are comparable to spoken and signed languages and/or
patterns specific to the gestural modality? Based on a
corpus-analysis of multimodal usage-events, 7 chapters explore
gestural repetitions with regard to their structure, semantic and
syntactic relevance for multimodal utterances, and cognitive
saliency. Fine-grained cognitive-linguistic analyses of multimodal
usage events reveal that gestural repetitions are not only a basic
principle of building patterns in spoken and signed languages, but
also in gestures. By addressing questions of mediality and
multimodality of language-in-use, the book contributes to the
investigation of repetition as a fundamental means of sign and
meaning construction (crosscutting modalities) and enhances the
understanding of the multimodal character of language in use.
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