{"product_id":"a-multimodal-language-faculty-a-cognitive-framework-for-human-communication-paperback","title":"A Multimodal Language Faculty: A Cognitive Framework for Human Communication - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNeil Cohn\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJoost Schilperoord\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNatural human communication is multimodal.\u003c\/b\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis 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. \u003ci\u003eA Multimodal Language Faculty\u003c\/i\u003e directly confronts centuries-old notions of language and offers a compelling reimagination of what language is and how it works.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNeil Cohn\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of Cognition and Communication at Tilburg University, Netherlands. Cohn's books include \u003ci\u003eThe Visual Language of Comics\u003c\/i\u003e (Bloomsbury, 2013) and the 2021 Eisner-nominated \u003ci\u003eWho Understands Comics?\u003c\/i\u003e (Bloomsbury, 2020), which establish the linguistic and cognitive study of graphic communication. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoost Schilperoord\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor of Cognition and Communication at Tilburg University, the Netherlands. He is best known for his research on language, graphics, multimodality, and cognition.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.73 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 11, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45428884471910,"sku":"9781350402454","price":81.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/g5roS8TH2D9781350402454.webp?v=1775721030","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/a-multimodal-language-faculty-a-cognitive-framework-for-human-communication-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}