The status of multimodal constructions in developing models and empirical testing
Résumé
1. What does this mean for our understanding, investigating and modelling of language and communication?
2. Are multimodal interactions or texts understood by language users through reference to mental representations? If so, are these representations mono- or multimodal? (Representations need not be understood as stable patterns but as dynamic co activation of neuronal assemblies.)
3. Are linguistic/semiotic signs useful ways of describing the linguistic behaviour of communication participants used by the analysts? (After all, a map is not a territory and yet it helps navigate through space.)
4. Finally, is language as a verbal system of communication independent from other communicative systems such as gesture?
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