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Abhorrence and attraction: A stylistic analysis of distancing and identification techniques in literature
Suzanne Fagel (Leiden) Thursday, May 17th The Coach House, Green College – 6201 Cecil Green Park Road Download PDF
How creativity strains conventionality in the use of idiomatic expressions
Patrick Duffley (Laval) Saturday, May 19th Buchanan A201 The most recent book-length study of idiomatic creativity (Langlotz 2006) views this phenomenon as a form of intelligent human behaviour based on general cognitive principles which allows speakers to “manipulate an idiom as a cognitive micro-model – a mental network that can be evoked to organise and […]
The Role of Gesture in L2 Learning: Communication, Acquisition, and Retention
Laura M. Morett, Raymond W. Gibbs, & Brian MacWhinney (UCSC) What is the role of gesture in second language (L2) acquisition? There is evidence that L2 learners use iconic (i.e., representative) gestures to convey their intended meaning when they are unable to express it effectively in the target language (McCafferty, 2002; Mori & Hayashi, 2006). […]
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The Role of Mental Imagery and Embodied Motion in Sign Language Learning
Laura M. Morett (UCSC) Saturday, May 19th Buchanan A hallway on the 2nd floor Research has demonstrated that gesture enactment (Asher & Price, 1967; Kelly, McDevitt, & Esch, 2009; Tellier, 2008) and mental imagery (Atkinson & Raugh, 1975; Ellis & Beaton, 1993) facilitate learning of novel second language words. These results suggest that mental imagery […]
Backgrounded information accommodation in Mental Spaces Theory: the Korean evidentiality constructions
Iksoo Kwon (UC, Berkeley) Friday, May 18th Buchanan B215 Download PDF
Grammatical aspect in multimodal language production: Using gesture to reveal event representations
Fey Parrill (Case), Benjamin Bergen (UCSD), & Patricia Lichtenstein (UC, Merced) Saturday, May 19th Buchanan B213 Grammatical aspect is a pervasive linguistic device that, according to linguistic analyses, allows speakers to encode different ways of construing events. For instance, the progressive (I am writing a book) is thought to reflect increased focus on the internal […]
Children’s use of gestures in telling stories
Elena Nicoladis (Alberta), Paula Marentette (Alberta), and Samuel Navarro (UBC) Friday, May 18th Buchanan A201 Telling a story orally often involves using visual-spatial imagery to create/remember the events in a story (Rubin, 1995). Oral story-tellers often use a variety of verbal and non-verbal means to convey their stories effectively, such as prosody and co-speech gestures […]
Distance encoding in kinematic properties of manual pointing
Chloe Gonseth, Anne Vilain, & Coriandre Vilain ( GIPSA-Lab, Speech & Cognition Department, Grenoble University) Friday, May 18th Buchanan B215 Deixis is a communicative process about showing and sharing information. Its specificity is that it involves both the vocal and the gestural modalities, being then a perfect case of speech/gesture interaction. The particular relationship between […]
Performing Arts, emotions and spaces: multimodal metaphors in a contemporary choreographer’s creative universe
Carla Montez Fernandes (Universidade Nova de Lisboa – FCSH – CLUNL) e-mail: carla.fernandes@fcsh.unl.pt Saturday, May 19th Buchanan B215 This paper is framed by recent studies on Multimodal Corpora (Fernandes, C. & Jürgens, S. 2010, Kipp, M. et. al. 2009, a.o.) and will specifically focus on the analysis of original video material filmed by this paper’s […]
Co-constructing Family Identities through Telephone-mediated Narrative Exchanges
Catherine Ann Cameron (UBC) & Julia Gillen (Lancaster University) Friday, May 18th Buchanan A201 Introduction: We explored telephone interactions between young children and adult family members as contributing insights to the co-construction of identities (Marcia, 2002) within both the nuclear and the extended family (Blackledge and Creese, 2008; Ochs & Capps, 2001). We deployed methods […]