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Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 15:26:31
From: Patrick Georg Grosz [p.g.grosz at iln.uio.no]
Subject: Gestures and Natural Language Semantics: Investigations
Full Title: Gestures and Natural Language Semantics: Investigations
Short Title: SuB25-Gestures
Date: 02-Sep-2020 - 02-Sep-2020
Location: London, United Kingdom
Contact Person: Patrick Georg Grosz
Meeting Email: sub25gestures at easychair.org
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/view/sinn-und-bedeutung-25/special-sessions/special-session-gestures
Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics; Semantics; Syntax
Subject Language(s): English (eng)
Call Deadline: 01-Mar-2020
Meeting Description:
''Gestures and Natural Language Semantics: Investigations at the Interface''
Special session of Sinn und Bedeutung 25, hosted at Queen Mary University of
London, UK, on 2 September 2020, organized by Patrick G. Grosz & Sarah Zobel
(University of Oslo).
The workshop aims to bring together researchers who work on gestures (see
McNeill 1992, Kendon 2004, Lascarides & Stone 2009, Ebert & Ebert 2014,
Schlenker 2018, Esipova 2019), and researchers who work on traditional areas
of linguistic research, in order to investigate where gesturally and
grammatically expressed meaning intertwine.
Invited Speakers:
Susan Goldin-Meadow (University of Chicago)
Emar Maier (University of Groningen)
Workshop Description:
Gestures have become a core area of investigation in the emerging field of
super linguistics, which applies formal linguistic methodology to non-standard
objects of study (using 'super' in its original Latinate meaning 'beyond', see
Schlenker & Patel-Grosz 2018). At the same time, there are evident connection
points where super linguistic research on gestures meets with formal
linguistic research on traditional objects of study. Two such connection
points are, for example, the domain of pronouns, demonstratives, and other
referential expressions (see Kaplan 1989, Carlson 2004, Büring 2011, Elbourne
2013 for relevant background and the role of ostension) and the investigation
of prosody, intonation, and discourse structuring (see Krifka 2008, Féry &
Ishihara 2016, Beaver et al. 2017 for relevant background). In connection with
the latter, we know that gestures are highly sensitive to information
structural properties. For instance, beat gestures are generally reported to
directly encode prosody and prominence, but, much more generally, most
speech-accompanying gestures (including spontaneous iconic gestures) are
aligned with the focus constituent in a given sentence. And beyond information
structure, gestures can be used to mark speech acts and discourse moves (such
as the canceling of a presupposition), especially when we use a broader
definition of gestures that includes facial expressions.
Selected References
- Beaver, D., Roberts, C., Simons, M., & Tonhauser, J. (2017). Questions Under
Discussion: Where Information Structure Meets Projective Content. Annual
Review of Linguistics 3, 265-284.
- Büring, D. (2011). Pronouns. In K. von Heusinger et al. (eds.), Semantics:
An international handbook of natural language meaning (Vol. 2, pp. 971-995).
Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
- Cooperrider, K. & R. Núñez (2012). Nose-pointing: Notes on a facial gesture
of Papua New Guinea. Gesture 12, 103-130.
- Ebert, C., Evert, S., & Wilmes, K. (2011). Focus Marking via Gestures.
Proceedings of Sinn & Bedeutung 15.
- Fenlon, J., K. Cooperrider, J. Keane, D. Brentari, & S. Goldin-Meadow
(2019). Comparing sign language and gesture: Insights from pointing. Glossa -
a journal of general linguistics 4, 2.1-26.
- Francis, N. (2019). Objecting to discourse moves: Presupposition denials
with ''even'' and beyond. Ms., MIT.
- Greenberg, G. (2011). The Semiotic Spectrum. PhD dissertation, Rutgers.
- Kita, S. (2009). Cross-cultural variation of speech-accompanying gesture: A
review. Language and cognitive processes 24, 145-167.
- Krifka, M. (2008). Basic Notions of Information Structure. Acta Linguistica
Hungarica 55, 243-276.
- Maier, E. (2018). Quotation, demonstration, and attraction in sign language
role shift. Theoretical Linguistics 44, 265-276.
- Schlenker, P. (2018). Gesture projection and cosuppositions. Linguistics and
Philosophy 41, 295-365.
- Schlenker, P., & Patel-Grosz, P. (2018). What is Super Linguistics?
Presentation at workshop ''Super Linguistics - an introduction'', University
of Oslo, 10th December 2018.
Call for Papers:
We invite contributions that investigate interactions between gestural and
linguistic communication, thereby explicitly addressing both sides of this
research enterprise, broadly construed:
1. gestures (including facial expressions, pointing arrows in visual
narratives, emojis as the substitute for gestures in computer-mediated
communication)
2. natural-language phenomena (including referential expressions [e.g.,
pronouns or demonstratives], information structure [e.g., focus and
prominence, emphasis, prosody], speech acts and discourse moves)
Possible research topics include, but are not limited to, the following, all
of which aim to shed new light on questions relating to the above research
enterprise:
- The gestural inventory (both manual and facial) across languages and
cultures (see Kita 2009), and how gestures interact with grammar across
languages.
- The range of grammatical phenomena in spoken language that can or must be
accompanied by gestures.
- Types of meaning that can only be expressed by gesture.
- Grammatical/Linguistic constraints on the use of gestures.
- Differences and similarities between the (non-grammatical/language-external)
pointing gestures that accompany speech and the
(grammatical/language-internal) pointing signs in sign language (see Fenlon et
al. 2019).
- Pointing gestures in connection with different types of pronouns, especially
pronouns that are not deictic (e.g., French clitic pronouns, Cardinaletti &
Starke 1999:153-154).
- Cross-cultural variation amongst pointing gestures, both in terms of hand
shape (Fenlon et al. 2019) and in terms of whether they are manual or facial
(Enfield 2001, Cooperrider & Núñez 2012), including lip pointing and nose
pointing.
- The semantics of directional arrows in visual/pictorial representations
(e.g., Greenberg 2011:162)
- Interactions between gestures and prosody / focus (e.g., Ebert, Evert &
Wilmes 2011)
- Encoding of speech acts by facial-expression gestures (Kuhn & Chemla 2017)
and emojis as digital gestures (Gawne & McCulloch 2019)
- Speech-accompanying gestures that accompany discourse moves such as
presupposition cancellation (Francis 2019)
- Interactions between gestures and quotation (cf. Maier 2018)
- Scope interactions between gestures and linguistic material.
Please note that the rules of submission for this special session are linked
to the rules applying to the main session and the second special session of
Sinn und Bedeutung 25:
One person can submit at most one abstract as sole author and one abstract as
co-author (or two co-authored abstracts), for the main session and both
special sessions combined.
Abstracts should contain original research that, at the time of submission,
has neither been published nor accepted for publication.
Abstracts should be anonymous and must not exceed two pages (letter size or A4
paper, 2.5cm or 1 inch margins on all sides, 12 point font), including
examples and references. Abstracts must be submitted electronically in PDF
format via EasyChair by Sunday 1 March 2020 (23:59 Central European Standard
Time).
EasyChair link (for this special session only):
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sub25gestures
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