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When interlocutors get pushy: Space management gestures and communicative force
Eva Elisabeth Wehling (UCB) Friday, May 18th Buchanan A201 Research shows that pragmatic gestures often rely on the same embodied concepts that structure thought and language (McNeil 1992; Müller 2004; Sweetser 1998). Pragmatic gestures that serve to control discourse events have been noted (Kendon 1995, 2004; Calbris 1990), and the majority of pragmatic gesture research […]
Bigram attraction reflects prosodic boundaries: Evidence from some old and one new collocation measure(s)
Alexander R. Wahl (UCSB) Saturday, May 19th Buchanan A hallway on the 2nd floor. Recent work in psycholinguistics has examined how language users possess “rich memory representations” of prior linguistic experiences (Bybee, 2010). These representations are considered to reflect the distributional regularities with which different words co-occur. A cooccurrence of particular words, or collocates, that is […]
The embodiment of speaker subjectivity in modals and evidentials in ASL
Barbara Shaffer (New Mexico) & Terry Janzen (Manitoba) Friday, May 18th Buchanan A201 Inherent in the conceptual domain of epistemic modality is the potential for the speaker to express a level of commitment, from weak to strong, to the situation encoded by the proposition. On another axis, a modal construction may be either agent-oriented or […]
Metaphor and Iconicity in two Mexican writers: Inés Arredondo and Amparo Dávila
Xitlally Rivero Romero & Claudia Reyes Trigos (Tecnológico de Monterrey) Friday, May 18th Buchanan B213 This paper aims to analyze the relationship between metaphor and iconicity in the narratives of two Mexican writers: the short stories “Los inocentes”, by Inés Arredondo, and “Griselda”, by Amparo Dávila. The proposal builds on the idea that certain literary […]
The Neural Substrates of Creative Thinking
Jake Kurczek & Melissa Duff (Iowa) Friday, May 18th Buchanan B213 Creativity has long fascinated artists, philosophers and psychologists alike. More recently, the cognitive components and neural underpinnings of creativity have become of considerable interest in cognitive neuroscience. From a neuroscience perspective, creativity requires the rapid combination and recombination of existing mental representations to create […]
The Systematicity of Narrative Space: A Cognitive Construction?
Elizabeth Finnigan (Strathclyde) Saturday, May 19th Buchanan A hallway on the 2nd floor I argue that narrative space is systematically constructed by demonstrating that there are core patterns of representation when the spatial categories of landscape, people and rooms are investigated. These patterns appear to eschew cultural and temporal boundaries and therefore, may illustrate cognitive […]
The genesis of Picasso´s Guernica and its possible interpretations in the light of Conceptual Blending Theory
Álvaro Corral (Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano) Saturday, May 19th Buchanan A201 How can we understand creative processes in the genesis and comprehension of the works of art? We will try to answer both questions with the help of Conceptual Blending Theory (Fauconnier & Turner, 2002). The underlying hypothesis here is that the cognitive processes which […]
Deviant marking of causality in a corpus of fictional prose and newspaper genres: stylistic effects and linguistic theory
Ninke Stukker (Leiden) Friday, May 18th Buchanan B215 Download PDF
Constantly shifting: How gesturing speakers use role shifted space
Kashmiri Stec (Groningen) Saturday, May 19th Buchanan B215 Co-speech gestures often represent some aspect of the accompanying speech (Kendon 2004; McNeill 1996). For example, they may direct attention to details, such as the spatial relations between entities or the trajectory a character takes (McNeill 1996). They may also embody those characters, such that the speaker […]
Metaphorical Riddles as Conceptual Blends: A Look at the Riddle Solving Process
Amanda Rapone (ODU) Saturday, May 19th Buchanan A hallway on the 2nd floor Throughout the years, riddles have been an object of interest for both linguists and anthropologists. This unique speech genre is independent of the surrounding discourse in which it is presented, and follows specific rules which both riddler (i.e. the person presenting the […]