Mimetic schemas in multimodal contact-establishing communicationстатья
Информация о цитировании статьи получена из
Scopus
Статья опубликована в журнале из перечня ВАК
Статья опубликована в журнале из списка Web of Science и/или Scopus
Дата последнего поиска статьи во внешних источниках: 24 июля 2024 г.
Аннотация:Contact-establishing is deservedly characterized as the major function of
communication. Until recently, it has been mostly subjected to linguistic analysis
aimed at identifying its discursive markers. Meanwhile, contact-establishing
frequently appears in gesturing. The current work develops a cognitive view to
gesture and speech alignment, and addresses multimodal contact-establishing
communication as mediated by mimetic schemas or bodily schemas shared by
communicants who engage in face-to-face and body-to-body interaction. Based on a
multimodal experiment where participants engage into task-oriented expository
dialogue, we identified two most common contact-establishing recurrent gestures,
palm-up-open-hand (PUOH) and palm-down-open-hand (PDOH) gestures contingent
on two mimetic schemas, SHOW and RESTRAIN. In the study, we explore the
distribution of these two schemas in their sub-schemas in gesture and speech.
Following the participants’ contact-establishing PUOH and PDOH gestures
(manifesting SHOW and RESTRAIN sub-schemas) and verbal cues (cognitive,
pragmatic, and functional semantic dimensions), we determined the multimodal
alignment patterns mediated by SHOW and RESTRAIN mimetic schemas in contactestablishing communication. Additionally, the clusters of PUOH and PDOH contactestablishing gestures were determined via their linguistic correspondences since they
account for common thinking-for-speaking growth points and the language profiles
of PUOH and PDOH contact-establishing gestures. The results allowed to scale the
mimetic sub-schemas as manifesting event and referent features such as situatedness,
embodiment, performativity, referent definiteness, referent foregrounding,
reification, dynamicity, addressing, agentivity, referentiality. Overall, we established
that in cognitive dimension non-situated events prevail in PUOH gestures while
situated events prevail in PDOH gestures. In pragmatic dimension there is the
difference in constativity in PUOH gestures and in performativity in PDOH gestures.
In functional semantic dimension PDOH gestures commonly occur with acts, while
PUOH gestures are more frequented with attributes. Additionally, we identified that
within-cluster distance in PDOH gestures is more obvious than in PUOH gestures,
which signifies that the typological differences (mediated indirectly by linguistic
characteristics) in PDOH gestures are more distinct. The data obtained provide new
evidence in multimodal contact-establishing communication