The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics

The Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics

Author: Barbara Dancygier

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-06-01

Total Pages: 1427

ISBN-13: 1108146139

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The best survey of cognitive linguistics available, this Handbook provides a thorough explanation of its rich methodology, key results, and interdisciplinary context. With in-depth coverage of the research questions, basic concepts, and various theoretical approaches, the Handbook addresses newly emerging subfields and shows their contribution to the discipline. The Handbook introduces fields of study that have become central to cognitive linguistics, such as conceptual mappings and construction grammar. It explains all the main areas of linguistic analysis traditionally expected in a full linguistics framework, and includes fields of study such as language acquisition, sociolinguistics, diachronic studies, and corpus linguistics. Setting linguistic facts within the context of many other disciplines, the Handbook will be welcomed by researchers and students in a broad range of disciplines, including linguistics, cognitive science, neuroscience, gesture studies, computational linguistics, and multimodal studies.


Language and Gesture

Language and Gesture

Author: David McNeill

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2000-08-03

Total Pages: 424

ISBN-13: 9780521777612

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Landmark study on the role of gestures in relation to speech and thought.


Gesture and Thought

Gesture and Thought

Author: David McNeill

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2008-09-15

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 0226514641

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Gesturing is such an integral yet unconscious part of communication that we are mostly oblivious to it. But if you observe anyone in conversation, you are likely to see his or her fingers, hands, and arms in some form of spontaneous motion. Why? David McNeill, a pioneer in the ongoing study of the relationship between gesture and language, set about answering this question over twenty-five years ago. In Gesture and Thought he brings together years of this research, arguing that gesturing, an act which has been popularly understood as an accessory to speech, is actually a dialectical component of language. Gesture and Thought expands on McNeill’s acclaimed classic Hand and Mind. While that earlier work demonstrated what gestures reveal about thought, here gestures are shown to be active participants in both speaking and thinking. Expanding on an approach introduced by Lev Vygotsky in the 1930s, McNeill posits that gestures are key ingredients in an “imagery-language dialectic” that fuels both speech and thought. Gestures are both the “imagery” and components of “language.” The smallest element of this dialectic is the “growth point,” a snapshot of an utterance at its beginning psychological stage. Utilizing several innovative experiments he created and administered with subjects spanning several different age, gender, and language groups, McNeill shows how growth points organize themselves into utterances and extend to discourse at the moment of speaking. An ambitious project in the ongoing study of the relationship of human communication and thought, Gesture and Thought is a work of such consequence that it will influence all subsequent theory on the subject.


Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society

Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society

Author: Morton Ann Gernsbacher

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2022-05-16

Total Pages: 1305

ISBN-13: 131770844X

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This volume features the complete text of the material presented at the Twentieth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. As in previous years, the symposium included an interesting mixture of papers on many topics from researchers with diverse backgrounds and different goals, presenting a multifaceted view of cognitive science. This volume contains papers, posters, and summaries of symposia presented at the leading conference that brings cognitive scientists together to discuss issues of theoretical and applied concern. Submitted presentations are represented in these proceedings as "long papers" (those presented as spoken presentations and "full posters" at the conference) and "short papers" (those presented as "abstract posters" by members of the Cognitive Science Society).


Hearing Gesture

Hearing Gesture

Author: Susan Goldin-Meadow

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2005-10-31

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 9780674018372

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This book explores how we move our hands when we talk, and what it means when we do so. Focusing on what we can discover about speakers—adults and children alike—by watching their hands, Goldin-Meadow discloses the active role that gesture plays in conversation and, more fundamentally, in thinking.


Language, Gesture, and Space

Language, Gesture, and Space

Author: Karen Emmorey

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2013-06-17

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 1134779739

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This book brings together papers which address a range of issues regarding the nature and structure of sign languages and other gestural systems, and how they exploit the space in which they are conveyed. The chapters focus on five pertinent areas reflecting different, but related research topics: * space in language and gesture, * point of view and referential shift, * morphosyntax of verbs in ASL, * gestural systems and sign language, and * language acquisition and gesture. Sign languages and gestural systems are produced in physical space; they manipulate spatial contrasts for linguistic and communicative purposes. In addition to exploring the different functions of space, researchers discuss similarities and differences between visual-gestural systems -- established sign languages, pidgin sign language (International Sign), "homesign" systems developed by deaf children with no sign language input, novel gesture systems invented by hearing nonsigners, and the gesticulation that accompanies speech. The development of gesture and sign language in children is also examined in both hearing and deaf children, charting the emergence of gesture ("manual babbling"), its use as a prelinguistic communicative device, and its transformation into language-like systems in homesigners. Finally, theoretical linguistic accounts of the structure of sign languages are provided in chapters dealing with the analysis of referential shift, the structure of narrative, the analysis of tense and the structure of the verb phrase in American Sign Language. Taken together, the chapters in this volume present a comprehensive picture of sign language and gesture research from a group of international scholars who investigate a range of communicative systems from formal sign languages to the gesticulation that accompanies speech.


Artificial Intelligence and Multimodal Signal Processing in Human-Machine Interaction

Artificial Intelligence and Multimodal Signal Processing in Human-Machine Interaction

Author: Abdulhamit Subasi

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2024-09-18

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13: 0443291519

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Artificial Intelligence and Multimodal Signal Processing in Human-Machine Interaction presents an overview of an emerging field that is concerned with exploiting multiple modalities of communication in both Artificial Intelligence and Human-Machine Interaction. The book not only provides cross disciplinary research in the fields of multimodal signal acquisition and sensing, analysis, IoTs (Internet of Things), Artificial Intelligence, and system architectures, it also evaluates the role of Artificial Intelligence I in relation to the realization of contemporary Human Machine Interaction (HMI) systems.Readers are introduced to the multimodal signals and their role in the identification of the intended subjects, mental state and the realization of HMI systems are explored, and the applications of signal processing and machine/ensemble/deep learning for HMIs are assessed. A description of proposed methodologies is provided, and related works are also presented. This is a valuable resource for researchers, health professionals, postgraduate students, post doc researchers and faculty members in the fields of HMIs, Brain-Computer Interface (BCI), Prosthesis, Computer vision, and Mental state estimation, and all those who wish to broaden their knowledge in the allied field. - Covers advances in the multimodal signal processing and artificial intelligence assistive HMIs - Presents theories, algorithms, realizations, applications, approaches, and challenges that will have their impact and contribution in the design and development of modern and effective HMI (Human Machine Interaction) system - Presents different aspects of the multimodal signals, from the sensing to analysis using hardware/software, and making use of machine/ensemble/deep learning in the intended problem-solving


Recurrent Gestures of Hausa Speakers

Recurrent Gestures of Hausa Speakers

Author: Izabela Will

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-11-15

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 9004449795

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This book presents a repertoire of conventionalized co-speech gestures used by Hausa speakers from northern Nigeria.


From Gesture to Language in Hearing and Deaf Children

From Gesture to Language in Hearing and Deaf Children

Author: Virginia Volterra

Publisher: Gallaudet University Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 9781563680786

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In 21 essays on communicative gesturing in the first two years of life, this vital collection demonstrates the importance of gesture in a child's transition to a linguistic system. Introductions preceding each section emphasize the parallels between the findings in these studies and the general body of scholarship devoted to the process of spoken language acquisition. Renowned scholars contributing to this volume include Ursula Bellugi, Judy Snitzer Reilly, Susan Goldwin-Meadow, Andrew Lock, M. Chiara Levorato, and many others.