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Types of speech and thought representation in narrative within and across languages – a constructional approach
Arie Verhagen (Leiden University) Sunday, May 20th The (re)presentation of different perspectives (subjects of consciousness and the contents of their minds) is crucial to the interpretation and coherence of (narrative) discourse, both fictional and non-fictional (e.g. certain types of journalistic texts). Important traditional distinctions in this regard are those between direct, indirect, and free indirect […]
Language, gesture, and audiovisual communication: a massive online database for researching multimodal constructions
David DeLiema (UCLA), Francis Steen (UCLA), and Mark Turner (Case Western Reserve University) Sunday, May 20th We propose to extend cognitive linguistics in two ways: (1) to the study of multimodal constructions, and (2) to the study of amounts of data so massive as to be intractable absent powerful computational and statistical methods. As part […]
Minding the News
Mark Turner (Case Western Reserve University) Thursday, May 17th Although we think of TV network news as sober reporting of events—”the latest facts”— a viewer’s understanding of the news is actually the result of elaborate and highly creative cognitive construction of meaning in response to minimal cues. This talk will analyze the nature of some […]
Cognitive poetics for linguists
Peter Stockwell (Nottingham University) Thursday, May 17th The development of cognitive poetics as a form of application of cognitive science to literary scholarship has emerged as an interdisciplinary field, with research and methods drawn from neuroscience and evolutionary biology, cognitive psychology and cognitive linguistics. For the most part, the direction of influence has been one-way, […]
The dynamics of embodied ‘experiential conceptualizations’. How bodily experiences ground the emergence and elaboration of multimodal metaphor in a ballet lesson
Cornelia Müller (European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder)) Friday, May 18th Buchanan A201 The paper investigates the emergence and interactive elaboration of metaphoric meaning in ballet training. It explores how bodily experiences serve as a source for the emergence of a multimodal metaphor, how the metaphor established by the teacher makes its way through the entire […]
Creativity in language is achieved through simulation
Teenie Matlock (University of California, Merced) Thursday, May 17th 2:30pm-3:30pm In the late 1990s Barsalou (1999) and other cognitive psychologists argued that grammar plays a role in constraining mental simulation of states and actions in the communication of concepts. On this view, the meanings of grammatical elements are believed to impose constraints on conceptual content […]
Cognitive Neuroscience of Creative Language
Seana Coulson (University of California, San Diego) Saturday, May 19th Creative language is an internally diverse, fuzzy-edged family of phenomena, relying on brain processes similar to those involved in literal language. I describe experimental studies of how people understand different sorts of creative language phenomena, including both literal and figurative language. These data argue […]
This song has a wiggle in the middle
Rena Sharon and Eric Vatikiotis-Bateson (University of British Columbia) Thursday, May 17th Biological organisms naturally engage in coordinated behavior. Highly skilled behaviors such as spoken communication, singing, or playing a musical instrument exploit this truism to attain more intricately organized and more controlled coordination. So, for example, the basic tendency for two people walking […]