TY - CHAP
T1 - A multimodal perspective on MCA
T2 - Cues of (possible) metacommunicative awareness
AU - Cienki, Alan
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Metacommunicative awareness (MCA) is proposed as a scalar phenomenon of being aware, to different possible degrees, that the form and/or content of how you are acting could communicate something to someone else. Observable signals of possible MCA that are based on greater use of effort are discussed on the verbal, prosodic, gestural, and other levels. Dynamicity in intensity is proposed as an important property of its nature, even if the quality of potential MCA differs between different registers and genres. The degree to which an expression, metaphoric or otherwise, is highlighted in a given instance by signals of possible MCA thus falls along a scale of saliency. This can be researched without delving into claims about supposed “deliberateness” of expression.
AB - Metacommunicative awareness (MCA) is proposed as a scalar phenomenon of being aware, to different possible degrees, that the form and/or content of how you are acting could communicate something to someone else. Observable signals of possible MCA that are based on greater use of effort are discussed on the verbal, prosodic, gestural, and other levels. Dynamicity in intensity is proposed as an important property of its nature, even if the quality of potential MCA differs between different registers and genres. The degree to which an expression, metaphoric or otherwise, is highlighted in a given instance by signals of possible MCA thus falls along a scale of saliency. This can be researched without delving into claims about supposed “deliberateness” of expression.
UR - https://benjamins.com/catalog/ftl.5
U2 - 10.1075/ftl.5.04cie
DO - 10.1075/ftl.5.04cie
M3 - Chapter
SN - 9789027205018
T3 - Figurative Language and Thought
SP - 63
EP - 91
BT - Drawing Attention to Metaphor
A2 - Di Biase-Dyson, Camilla
A2 - Egg, Markus
PB - John Benjamins Publishing Company
CY - Amsterdam
ER -