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Multimodal Communication as a Dynamic Network
Rick Dale (UC, Merced) & Max M. Louwerse (U Memphis) Friday, May 18th Buchanan B213 During a bout of face-to-face interaction, such as sharing a joke, a whole suite of dynamic processes unfolds between people. For example, the speaker may gesture and smile while the listener nods in eager anticipation. At the punch line, the […]
Visualizing vocal iconicity: Empirical and graphical methods for investigating pitch contours
Nathaniel Clark & Marcus Perlman (UCSC) Saturday, May 19th Buchanan A hallway on the 2nd floor. While iconicity is becoming more widely acknowledged as commonplace, even in spoken language (Perniss, et al., 2010), the empirical study of iconicity in speech is hampered by a reliance on comparing averages for acoustic variables across whole words or […]
Interactive Animated Visuals as Elastic Anchors for Imaginative Conceptual Blends
Kenny Chow (Hong Kong) & D. Fox Harrell (MIT) Saturday, May 19th Buchanan A201 Introduction In today’s digital environments, we not only watch, but also interact with animated graphics in user interfaces, videogames, and computer-based artworks. The experience of interactive animated images relies on both sensory and motor apparatuses, constituting an embodied cognitive process. [1] […]
The tacit and the trace: Towards syntax of the creative act
Suk Kyoung Choi, Steve DiPaola, and Thecla Schiphorst (SFU) Sunday, May 20th Buchanan A201 Tacit knowledge represents an embodied understanding of experience which shapes our form and action (Polanyi). For this study, the mimetic transformation of this ‘hidden’ knowledge is described as a process of active engagement in order to arrive at a conditional representation […]
The Poetics of Analogy at the Limits of Blending Theory
Mark J. Bruhn (Regis U) Friday, May 18th Buchanan B213 This paper explores the ways in which Percy Bysshe Shelley’s (1792-1822) analogical poetics at once anticipates and challenges contemporary cognitive-scientific models of conceptual structure. Section 1 outlines unresolved logical and motivational issues that limit the explanatory power of conceptual metaphor and blending theories with respect […]
“Space-Time Hallucinations:” A Cognitive Poetic Approach to Time in Comics
Mike Borkent (UBC) Saturday, May 19th Buchanan A201 The field of comics studies has abundantly illustrated the creativity facilitated by the medium. However, the crucial questions of how words and images seamlessly meld within and between panels—what McCloud (1993) influentially called “closure”— remain under-theorized and problematic (Cohn 2010). A discussion of the construction of time […]
Situated and social: A (re)consideration of terminology for actors
Rhonda Blair (Southern Methodist) Saturday, May 19th Buchanan B213 This paper considers possible applications of research in select areas of cognitive science to acting and actor training. Cognitive science research, particularly in areas such as situated cognition and social neuroscience, is increasingly complicating our sense of what it means to be a “self” or an […]
Reading Minds: (Re)Presentation of Multiple-Order Intentionality in Narrative
Max J. van Duijn (Leiden) Sunday, May 20th Buchanan A201 In daily interaction as well as when dealing with narratives (in the broad sense, including e.g. drama and film), humans are capable of keeping track of complex networks of multiply-embedded mind states (Dunbar 2003; 2008). Experiments investigating this capability have shown that participants make relatively […]
Gestures of Korean Emotion Metaphors: A Case Study for Anger, Happiness and Sadness
Ebru Türker (Pittsburgh) Saturday, May 19th Buchanan A hallway on the 2nd floor Earlier studies have already argued that metaphors are not just a phenomenon of verbal language (c.f. Cienki 2005, 2008; Cienki & Müller, 2008; Gibbs, 2008; Müller & Cienki,2009); rather the interaction between metaphoric language and gesture plays an important role in providing […]
Where do cognitive biases fit into Cognitive Linguistics? Perspective taking, presuppositions, and the Curse of Knowledge
Vera Tobin (UCSB) Sunday, May 20th Buchanan A201 Download PDF