scholarly journals Toddler-directed and adult-directed gesture frequency in monolingual and bilingual caregivers

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monika Molnar ◽  
Kai Ian Leung ◽  
Jodee Santos Herrera ◽  
Marcel Giezen
Keyword(s):  
Communication Strategies ◽  
Multimodal Communication ◽  
Linguistic Context ◽  
Cognitive Linguistic ◽  
Language Context ◽  
Communication Demands ◽  
Representational Gestures

Aims and ObjectivesThis study was designed to assess whether bilingual caregivers, compared to monolingual caregivers, modify their nonverbal gestures to match the increased communicative and/or cognitive-linguistic demands of bilingual language contexts - as would be predicted based on the Facilitative Strategy Hypothesis.MethodologyWe recorded the rate of representational and beat gestures in monolingual and bilingual caregivers when they retold a cartoon story to their child or to an adult, in a monolingual and a bilingual context (‘synonym’ context for monolingual caregivers).Data and AnalysisWe calculated the frequency of all gestures, representational gestures, and beat gestures for each addressee (adult-directed vs. toddler-directed) and linguistic context (monolingual vs. bilingual/synonym), separately for the monolingual and the bilingual caregivers. Using ANOVA, we contrasted monolingual vs. bilingual caregivers’ gesture frequency for each gesture type separately - based on addressee and linguistic context. Findings/ConclusionsBilingual caregivers gesture more than monolingual caregivers, irrespective of addressee and language context. Furthermore, we found evidence in support of the Facilitative Strategy hypothesis across both monolingual and bilingual caregivers, as all caregivers increased the rate of their representational gestures in the child-directed re-telling. However, we found no clear patterns showing that bilingual caregivers, compared to monolingual caregivers, adjust their gestures when the communication demands from their child’s perspective are presumably high (i.e., the child is listening to a story in two languages). In summary, both monolingual and bilingual caregivers similarly adjust their gestures to aid their child’s comprehension, and bilinguals generally gesture more than monolinguals.OriginalityTo our knowledge, this is the first study of gesture use in child-directed communication in monolingual and bilingual caregivers.Significance/ImplicationsIndependent of their monolingual or bilingual status, caregivers adjust their child-directed multimodal communication strategies (specifically gestures) when interacting with their children.

scholarly journals Cognitive & Pragmatic Approach to the Phraseological Intensifiers of Political Discourse

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadejda Zubareva ◽  
◽  
Iroda Siddikova
Keyword(s):  
Political Discourse ◽  
Wide Distribution ◽  
Linguistic Meaning ◽  
Linguistic Context ◽  
Pragmatic Approach ◽  
Cognitive Linguistic ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Pragmatic Paradigm

The present paper reports on a study that aims to explore the cognitive and pragmatic potential of leveraging phraseological intensifiers in English political discourse. The authors argue that the phraseological intensifiers of political discourse could not be discussed without any contribution to the extra-linguistic context. Therefore, the present study works with a cognitive linguistic explanation of the phraseological intensifiers used by English politicians and journalists as well as performed pragmatic impact that aimed to foster the relevant conceptualization process. The suggestion of phraseological intensifiers depends on context linguistic meaning in the employed by the authors cognitive-pragmatic paradigm. This paper also denotes a wide range of relative to intensity categories, which should be distinguished from it. Such an analysis allows the authors to account for the wide distribution of intensifiers and their co-occurrence with categories that do not encode degree variables. The results of the study show that phraseological intensifiers significantly outperformed in the degree of pragmatic suggestion in political discourse and made use of them in a more appropriate way.

Mediated characters: Multimodal viewpoint construction in comics

2017 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 539-563
Author(s):  
Mike Borkent
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Framework ◽  
Mental Simulation ◽  
Multimodal Communication ◽  
Discourse Context ◽  
Cognitive Linguistic ◽  
Cognitive Theories ◽  
Mental Space

AbstractI analyze multimodal viewpoint construction in comics to engage with how modalities function within the medium as a specific discourse context with distinct conventions and material qualities. I show how comics employ established storytelling practices with character, narrator, and narrative viewpoint levels, while building up and interweaving these through strategic uses of the modalities of the medium. I mobilize the cognitive theories of embodiment, domains, mental simulation, and mental space blending as an analytical framework. I examine the asynchronicity of viewpoint elements between modalities and their synthesis into composite character viewpoints in several examples. I show how modalities can be prioritized and their different qualities and functions strategically manipulated for viewpoint construal. These brief examples show the complexity inherent in multimodal communication and interpretation and the usefulness of encouraging the medium-specific and interdisciplinary analyses of cultural works from a cognitive linguistic perspective.

Multimodal Communication Program for Adults: Cognitive Considerations

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (12) ◽  
pp. 4-12
Author(s):  
Sarah E. Wallace ◽  
Sarah Diehl
Keyword(s):  
Augmentative And Alternative Communication ◽  
Cognitive Impairments ◽  
Communication Strategies ◽  
Multimodal Communication ◽  
Alternative Communication ◽  
Integrated Instruction ◽  
Complex Communication Needs ◽  
Communication Program ◽  
Communication Needs ◽  
Communication Modalities

People with complex communication needs often rely on a system of augmentative and alternative communication strategies. The Multimodal Communication Program (MCP) was developed for people with aphasia, but was also explored with people with traumatic brain injury. MCP aims to increase breakdown resolution via integrated instruction in multiple communication modalities. Although implementation and results vary across studies, factors such as cognitive impairments warrant further investigation and potential modifications. The purpose of this article was to review the effect of cognitive impairments during implementation of MCP relative to cognitive impairments. Recommendations and considerations for the clinicians are provided.

scholarly journals On the flexibility of bilingual language control: The effect of language context

2018 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 555-568 ◽  
Author(s):  
KALINKA TIMMER ◽  
INGRID K. CHRISTOFFELS ◽  
ALBERT COSTA
Keyword(s):  
Control System ◽  
Inhibitory Control ◽  
Linguistic Context ◽  
Dominant Language ◽  
Switch Costs ◽  
Switching Patterns ◽  
Language Control ◽  
Language Context ◽  
Naming Latencies ◽  
The Way

How flexible is bilingual language control and how does it adapt to the linguistic context of a conversation? We address this by looking at the pattern of switch costs in contexts involving mostly the use of a dominant or non-dominant language. This linguistic context affected switching patterns: switching was equally costly for both languages in a dominant (L1) context, while switching was harder for the weaker language in the non-dominant (L2) context. Also, naming latencies for each language were affected by the linguistic contexts: only the dominant L1 context led to slower latencies for the dominant language. This latter finding was also present when looking at the LPC component, which may reveal differences in the way inhibitory control is applied depending on the linguistic context. These results reveal that the bilingual language control system is flexible and that it adapts to the linguistic context in which the speaker is placed.

scholarly journals Are our preferences and evaluations conditioned by the language context?

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alice Vidal ◽  
Albert Costa ◽  
Alice Foucart
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Contextual Factors ◽  
Evaluative Conditioning ◽  
Implicit Measure ◽  
Linguistic Context ◽  
Emotional Stimuli ◽  
Language Context

Our preferences and evaluations are often affected by contextual factors. One unavoidable context is language. We used an evaluative conditioning (EC) paradigm (pairing neutral stimuli with emotional or neutral stimuli) to investigate whether our evaluations are equally conditioned in a native (NL) and in a foreign language (FL). An EC effect was observed in both languages, however, if in NL it occurred independently of recollection of the pairing of the stimuli, in foreign language memory seemed to play a larger role. These results were confirmed using a more implicit measure (memory confusion paradigm). Overall, the results suggest that conditioning occurs both in NL and FL, but is weaker and more sensitive to memory of the emotional stimuli in FL. The study is the first demonstration that EC is modulated by language, and converges with recent findings showing that linguistic context can modulate our behaviours.

scholarly journals Modality, Medium, and More: A Toolkit for the Multimodal Cognitive Linguist. Sidenotes on “Understanding Abstract Concepts across Modes in Multimodal Discourse: A Cognitive-Linguistic Approach” (2020) by Elżbieta Górska

2020 ◽  
Vol 58 ◽  
pp. 189-202
Author(s):  
Michał Szawerna
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Multimodal Communication ◽  
The Other ◽  
Abstract Concepts ◽  
Multimodal Discourse ◽  
Cognitive Linguistic ◽  
The One ◽  
Linguistic Approach

The focus of this review article is on Understanding Abstract Concepts across Modes in Multimodal Discourse: A Cognitive-Linguistic Approach (2020), the latest monograph by professor Elżbieta Górska of Warsaw University, a leading Polish researcher in the area of multimodality studies informed by cognitive linguistics. The goal of this article is twofold. On the one hand, the article aims at evaluating Górska’s monograph on its own merits, as a self-contained study of the cognitive processes involved in the interpretation of multimodal works of art by Janusz Kapusta, with an emphasis on conceptual metaphor, conceptual metonymy, and their interplay. On the other hand, the article aims at considering a number of thorny concepts underlying much of the current linguistically informed research into multimodal communication (notably, modality/mode, medium, and genre) by using Górska’s monograph as a springboard for their discussion.

scholarly journals Multimodaalne suhtlus keeleõppe ja -kasutuse teenistuses

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-39
Author(s):  
Silvi Tenjes ◽  
Triin Lõbus ◽  
Leila Kubinyi ◽  
Ingrid Rummo ◽  
Dmitri Kulakov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Communication Strategies ◽  
Multimodal Communication ◽  
Scientific Study ◽  
Research Topics ◽  
Discourse Studies

In the present article an overview of the scientific study carried out by Tartu University’s Department of Estonian as a Foreign Language is given. We observe more closely the part of the department’s research which is performed in co-operation with MUSU group, including the collaboration with Institute of Germanic, Romance and Slavonic Languages and Literatures. These activities are supported by the Estonian Science Foundation (ETF) grant project. It is also important to mention the co-operation with the Nordic Universities in the framework of PlaceME project. The research topics of the doctoral students are implementing different methods of discourse studies for analysing the multimodal communication, communicative competences and communication strategies in the process of language learning and usage.

It’s Time to Do News Again

2020 ◽  
Vol 68 (4) ◽  
pp. 379-409
Author(s):  
Anna Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Communication Strategies ◽  
Cognitive System ◽  
Cognitive Systems ◽  
Conceptual Blending ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Force Dynamics ◽  
Cognitive Linguistic ◽  
Linguistic Approach

AbstractThe study analyses the RT USA show “The News with Rick Sanchez” to identify persuasive and manipulative communication strategies realised by the host’s integration of speech and co-speech gestures.What cognitive systems, conceptual processes and schemas does the speaker employ to construct and communicate viewpoint? What linguistic and gestural units enable certain viewpoint construction? What role does social context play in the interpretation of these units?After a quantitative overview of the use of body-directed and related outward-directed gestures in 180 minutes of RT recordings, the study offers a fine-grained qualitative analysis of viewpoint construction behind four situations from these RT data. It develops an advanced cognitive-linguistic approach anchored in conceptual blending (Fauconnier and Turner 2002) and the cognitive system of force dynamics (Talmy 1988, 2000). The study argues that this approach is successful in revealing speech-gesture integrations as triggering viewpoint blending for the purpose of manipulation and is useful for transferring manual qualitative analysis to analysis at scale.

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