35.2336, FYI: Bloomsbury Handbook of Pragmatics, Prosody and Gesture Studies

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Subject: 35.2336, FYI: Bloomsbury Handbook of Pragmatics, Prosody and Gesture Studies

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Date: 27-Aug-2024
From: Pauline Madella [pauline.madella at beds.ac.uk]
Subject: Bloomsbury Handbook of Pragmatics, Prosody and Gesture Studies 


For obvious reasons, the study of linguistics has largely focused on
verbal modality. However, there is more to the study of meaning than
the meaning inherent in language. Pragmatics or the study of speaker
meaning offers a much bigger picture, one that explains how utterances
are understood. Utterances, of course, are complex composites of both
verbal and non-verbal modalities. The intonational – almost musical –
contours we impose on the words we say are used together with facial
and hand movements in order to point the hearer towards our intended
interpretation.

Studies in discourse and pragmatics increasingly highlight the need to
incorporate both verbal and visual modalities, recognising that human
communication is inherently multimodal. Research in the interface
between pragmatics and prosody has developed to include gesture on the
grounds that: as much as the study of meaning would be incomplete
without the acoustic elements of speech, the study and assessment of
pragmatics in relation to the acoustic elements of speech would be
incomplete without attention to the visual elements co-occurring with
the acoustic elements.

Spoken prosody is intimately connected, even intertwined with bodily
actions and head motion, resulting in the emergence of diverse
terminology to refer to this phenomenon: gestural beats, visual
prosody, audio-visual construct, multimodal prosody, prosodic
pointing, etc. These paralinguistic phenomena – to use Abercrombie’s
inclusive definition of what is otherwise known as ‘paralanguage’, are
well documented in typical adult speakers, in signed languages, as
well as in typical and atypical language development, where visual and
gestural cues are often used to cope with an immature speech system.

This handbook is intended to reflect these considerations and advances
in this dynamic field, and the need to include speech and gesture in
interaction, to simultaneously assess prosodic and visual aspects of
communication, and, crucially, to include all – typical and atypical –
communicators.

Call for contributions:

We are welcoming contributions from scholars focused on both/either
typical and/or atypical communicative behaviours, and scholars
particularly interested and with expertise in

- ‘co-animation’ in interaction, whether you take a discourse
analysis, psycholinguistic, cognitive- or neuro-linguistic approach;

- further and new evidence of the interconnectedness of prosodic and
gestural aspects of communication, and their joint role in
facilitating language processing and comprehension;

- the discussion of whether multiple modalities serve as precursors
and facilitators of language development in typically and atypically
developing populations;

- signed languages, where prosody is conveyed through hand and facial
movements.

Finally, we invite contributors working on innovative research on
multimodal aspects of prosody (multimodal prosody).

Submit an abstract highlighting the subfield your chapter would
contribute to - from the ones outlined above. Send it to
pauline.madella at beds.ac.uk by Friday 22 December, 2024, 23:59pm.
We look forward to receiving your submissions! Acceptance
notifications will be sent by Friday 31 Jan., 2025.

Dr Mary Edward
Dr Pauline Madella
& Bloomsbury

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Language Family(ies): English based



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