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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 […]
Ostension and the nature of multimodal referential relations
Noureddine Elouazizi & Maite Taboada (SFU) Saturday, May 19th Buchanan B213 1. Background Using a multimodal corpus, constructed from TED videos, and adopting a corpus-based linguistic analysis, this paper examines the uses and referential properties of demonstrativesbased ostensions in multimodal contexts. The context of demonstratives-based ostension is a multimodal deictic context wherein the semantic meaning […]
Formalizing an interconnected syntax for Picasso’s creative process in producing Guernica
Steve DiPaola & Allison Smith (SFU) Saturday, May 19th Buchanan A201 Picasso’s masterpiece Guernica and his creative process that gave fruition to it, has been the subject of major debate on how the creative mind works by many art historians (Arnhiem, Tankard) and more recently cognitive scientists (Simonton, Gabora). One reason Guernica has become the […]
Computationally modeling creativity: implementation and response to a computer being creative on its own
Steve DiPaola (SFU) Friday, May 18th Buchanan B213 Is it possible to make a computer program creative own its own. If you did, how would you evaluate the human response to its creative output? Through neuroimaging studies, theoretical and empirical work on the psychology of creativity, and simulation, we are gaining insight into the once […]