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“Bodied Forth:” conceptual blending and gesture in Shakespeare
Amy Cook (Indiana) Saturday, May 19th Buchanan B213 And as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. (A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 5.1) The study of linguistic processing – and the embodied and embedded thinking that it […]
How people conceptualize the web today
Spencer Castro, Paul P. Maglio, & Teenie Matlock (UC, Merced) Friday, May 18th Buchanan B213 When the world wide web came into popular use in the 1990s, people had to develop ways to talk about it and think about it. In 1995, we interviewed novices (individuals who had never used the web) to determine how […]
Conceptual blending in Supyire healing and protection spells
Robert Carlson (Africa IU & SIL) Friday, May 18th Buchanan A210 This paper examines Supyire (Senufo, Gur, Niger-Congo) spells (kulushî) which accompany healing (wempyii) and protecting (sárágá) rituals performed by ordinary people (as opposed to herbalist specialists). As in many African cultures (cf. for example Azande spells, described in Evans-Pritchard 1937: 450ff), Supyire spells use […]
Creative space building in (inter)action: the case of joint fantasy in dyadic interactions
Geert Brône, Bert Oben, Paul Sambre & Kurt Feyaerts (Leuven) Sunday, May 20th Buchanan, B213 Cognitive approaches to linguistic creativity have focused primarily on the construction of hybrid or layered conceptualizations on the basis of a variety of cognitive processes, including analogical reasoning (Hofstadter 1995, Thagard fc.), conceptual blending and compression (Fauconnier & Turner 2002, […]
Quotation as a Multiomodal Construction
Natalia Blackwell, Marcus Perlman, & Jean E. Fox Tree (UCSC) Sunday, May 20th Buchanan A201 Introduction People commonly produce quotations with the devices like, said, and goes when reporting another person’s speech, and to varying degrees, when describing non-speech or non-human sounds ‘He was like “…..”’ ‘The cows were like “mooo”’ ‘The babies were going […]
Perception of prosodic boundaries by untrained listeners
Brendan Barnwell (UCSB) Saturday, May 19th Buchanan A hallway on the 2nd floor Download PDF
Bending Over Backwards: Embodiment Motivates Language
Melissa Zheng & Robert F. Williams (Lawrence) Sunday, May 20 Buchanan B213 Download PDF
Tracing Semantic Change in Athapaskan Body-Part, Effluvia and Ephemera Terms
Conor Snoek (Alberta) Sunday, May 20 Buchanan B213 Inspired by Wilkins’ (1996) seminal work, this study sets out from a circumscribed semantic domain, the human body, and seeks to exploit insights from Cognitive Semantics in order to uncover word etymologies. As a conceptual domain, the human body encompasses not only those parts whose removal would […]
The role of mental simulation in comprehension of interactional and multimodal language use
Kasper Kok (U Amsterdam) & Alan Cienki (VU, Amsterdam) Sunday, May 20 Buchanan B213 Recent, embodied theories of meaning known as ‘simulation semantics’ posit that language comprehension is accomplished via mental simulation (Barsalou, 1999; Kaschak & Glenberg, 2000). However the meaning of ‘comprehension’ varies according to the researcher’s perspective on interpersonal communication. Influential models in […]
A construction account of [be done NP]: What Canadian English tells us about constructions and frames
Jennifer Hinnell (SFU) Sunday, May 20 Buchanan A201 In the study presented here I take a usage-based, construction grammar (CG) view of meaning (Fillmore, Kaye & O’Connor 1988;; Goldberg 1995, 2006; Kemmer and Barlow 2000), which assumes that linguistic meaning is a property of both lexical items and grammatical constructions. This study investigates the widely […]