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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 […]
Creativity across modalities in viewpoint-construction
Eve Sweetser (University of California, Berkeley) Thursday, May 17th Buchanan A104 Because cognition and language are based in human embodied experience, which is essentially viewpointed, human representations are pervaded by viewpoint. Within the frameworks of mental spaces and conceptual blending, I will discuss some of the ways in which complex viewpoint is creatively built in […]
From Embodied Perspective to Grammar in American Sign Language
Terry Janzen (University of Manitoba) Friday, May 18th To say that language is embodied means that the structure of language is shaped to some extent by our bodily experience of interacting with our environment. Important in this conceptualization of the world and of our language use (because we also conceptualize the link between ideas […]
Experiential Relativity
Daniel Casasanto (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics/New School for Social Research) Saturday, May 19th People are not all the same. There is astonishing diversity among human cultures, languages, and bodies. How is the diversity of the human experience reflected in the mind? In this talk, I will review research into the mechanisms and the consequences […]