Innovation in Linguisticsby Cognitive Semantics (4)
讲座简介“语言学创新”系列讲座（Innovation in Linguistics）由北京航空航天大学外国语学院英文国际期刊Cognitive Semantics（https://brill.com/COSE）主办，致力于向国内外学者分享语言学领域相关研究话题的最新研究动向。本公众号为“语言学创新”系列讲座宣传方。
Alan Cienki is Professor of Language Use & Cognition and English Linguistics at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam since 2006 and is the founder of the Amsterdam Gesture Center there. He is also a professor at Moscow State Linguistic University, where he founded the Multimodal Communication and Cognition Lab ("PoliMod"). Previously, he worked at the Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts at Emory University (Atlanta, USA), as well as at the Department of Linguistics (which he co-founded) and at the Department of Russian and East Asian Languages and Cultures. His research is in the field of cognitive linguistics, with a recent focus on spoken language and gestures. He is co-editor of the anthology Metaphor and Gesture (Benjamins, 2008) and the two-volume handbook Body-Language-Communication (De Gruyter, 2013, 2014). Prof. Cienki is also a past Chair of the International Association for Researching and Applying Metaphor (RaAM) and is currently Vice President of the International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS).Personal website:https://research.vu.nl/en/persons/alan-cienki
讲座摘要
The talk will consider how the study of speakers’ gestures can contribute to semantic analysis of spoken language, taking the position in cognitive linguistics that semantics is based in conceptual structures and processes. We will see what spontaneous use of gesture might reveal, as well as what it cannot, about phenomena such as mental simulation, the use of spatial imagery, and objectification of abstract concepts (through metonymy and metaphor). Consideration will be given to differences between production of communicative behaviors by speakers and comprehension by those hearing and seeing them (that is: whose conceptual structures and processes we are making claims about). Finally, both spoken language and gesture are dynamic phenomena, so we will consider the implications this dynamicity has for semantic analysis.