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Manual-visual vs. vocal indexes in signed and spoken communication: insights from the study of Signed Languages and language acquisition processes| old_uid | 1823 |
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| title | Manual-visual vs. vocal indexes in signed and spoken communication: insights from the study of Signed Languages and language acquisition processes |
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| start_date | 2006/11/27 |
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| schedule | 10h-11h |
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| online | no |
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| details | La conférence sera en français (mais le diaporama powerpoint sera probablement en anglais), avec l'aide d'un interprète français/LSF |
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| summary | The work I will present aims to contribute to a clearer understanding of the gesture of pointing and, more generally, of indexical reference in human communication. Towards this end, I will consider evidence provided by studies on spoken and signed languages, and on the learning of such languages. I will highlight different uses and functions that visual-manual pointing gestures may have as generic, non linguistic attention-directing devices, and as indexes that appear to require symbolic, linguistic abilities. I shall examine in detail the use of pointing gesture for expressing person reference distinctions as distinguished from demonstrative/locative reference. I shall question unwarranted assumptions that I believe hinder both an appropriate analysis of pointing gestures, and appropriate comparisons with vocal indexes (e.g. deictic pronouns and deictic-anaphoric reference systems in speech), and I will attempt to outline a unitary approach to the problems posed by the study of indexical reference in human linguistic and nonlinguistic communication. |
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| oncancel | Conférence écourtée d’une heure, suivie de la conférence de Paolo Rossini, de 11h à 12h |
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| responsibles | Aroui |
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