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    Distinguished lectures in humanities: gesture, metaphor, and spatial language

    Distinguished lectures in humanities: gesture, metaphor, and spatial language

    I will discuss how co-speech (i.e., speech-accompanying) gestures relate to language and conceptualisation underlying language. I will focus on “representational gestures”, which can depict motion, action, and shape or can indicate locations. I will provide evidence for the following two points. Various aspects of language shape co-speech gestures. Conversely, the way we produce co-speech gestures can shape language. I will discuss these issues in relation to manner and path in motion event descriptions, clause-linkage types in complex event descriptions, and metaphor. I will conclude that gesture and language are parts of a "conceptualisation engine”, which takes advantage of unique strengths of spatio-motoric representation and linguistic representation.
    Even date: 26/02/2024
    Speaker: Prof. Sotaro Kita (University of Warwick)
    Hosted by: Faculty of Humanities

    Subjects:
    Language and Languages
    Keywords:
    Nonverbal communication Language languages Gesture
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    Video