Actions as a Basis for Online Embodied Concepts

Keily, Holly

doi:10.3390/languages4010016

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“…It has been suggested that when an abstract concept is metaphorically described in terms of a motion event, the motor system could play an essential role in processing that concept and grounding it in the physical environment . This is particularly the case when such a metaphorical description is supported by gestures that depict that motion event (e.g., Keily, 2019;Wellsby & Pexmann, 2019). When a literal sentence is used to describe an actual motion event in the physical environment or a metaphorical sentence is employed to metaphorically describe a specific concept (or event) in terms of a motion event, gestures can be used to give a visual description of that motion.…”

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Understanding perceptual change as a movement in literal and metaphorical sentences

Khatin‐Zadeh

Eskandari

Banaruee

et al. 2022

Cogent Arts & Humanities

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Results of the studies on the way language and body coordinate in communication (through language and gesture) have significant implications for language, education, and cognitive studies. However, there is a lack of convenient research in this area analyzing perceptual changes within individuals. To fill this gap, we investigated the embodied realizations of literal sentences representing perceptual changes and metaphorical sentences describing the phenomena in terms of perceptual changes. We classified sentences that referred to a visual, auditory, haptic, gustatory, or olfactory change. Participants listened to four narratives that contained five literal sentences describing a real perceptual change and five metaphorical sentences that described a phenomenon in terms of a perceptual change. We analyzed the recorded videos of the participants. The total number of literal sentences that described a real perceptual change was obtained for each modality (visual, auditory, haptic, gustatory, olfactory) separately. Also, the total number of gestures used with each category of these literal statements was obtained. Only iconic and non-iconic gestures that described such perceptual changes as the movement of an object in the space were counted. The results revealed that gestures accompanied at least 53% of literal and 56% of metaphorical sentences. These results suggest that literal and metaphorical perceptual change sentences could be understood as movements at a conceptual level. The similarity between embodied realizations of literal and metaphorical sentences supports one of the main assumptions of the strong version of embodied cognition. ABOUT THE AUTHORSOmid Khatin-Zadeh holds a PhD. In TEFL. His major fields of interest are Psycholinguistics, Embodied Language, Metaphor, and Schema. He is currently a research associate at the University of Electronic Science and Technology of China.Zahra Eskandari holds a PhD. in TEFL. Her major fields of interest are Cognitive Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, and English Language Teaching. She currently researches psycholinguistic aspects of metaphor in language and mind.Hassan Banaruee holds a PhD. in TEFL. He is a research fellow in cognitive linguistics, particularly in metaphor, motion events, and multimodality.María José Seckel Santis is a teacher educator. She obtained a PhD in Mathematics Education from Universidad de Barcelona. Her major fields of interest are Teacher Education and the Teaching and Learning of mathematics.Danyal Farsani holds a BSc in Mathematics from the University of Coventry and a PhD in Education from the University of Birmingham. He major fields of interest are interaction, Psycholinguistics and, Embodied Cognition.

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Section: Literal Change Vs Metaphorical Changementioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding perceptual change as a movement in literal and metaphorical sentences

Khatin‐Zadeh

Eskandari

Banaruee

et al. 2022

Cogent Arts & Humanities

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Embodied Prosodic Training Helps Improve Accentedness and Suprasegmental Accuracy

Baills

Alazard-Guiu

Prieto

2022

Applied Linguistics

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With increasing evidence in favour of embodied learning techniques, more research is needed to explore eventual applications in the field of second language acquisition, for example, the effect of embodied training on phonological learning. This study investigated how pronunciation was affected by visuospatial hand gestures depicting speech rhythm and intonation during the oral repetition of logatomes (i.e. a series of identical nonsense CV syllables that maintain prosodic structure intact). Seventy-five Catalan learners of French participated in three training sessions with short dialogues, in one of three conditions: speech-only, non-embodied logatome, and embodied logatome. Before and after the training period, participants carried out an identical pre- and posttest which consisted of reading four dialogues aloud. Their oral output was evaluated in terms of fluency, comprehensibility, accentedness, and suprasegmental and segmental features by three native French speakers. While all three groups significantly improved in all measures after training, the embodied logatome group improved significantly more in terms of accentedness and suprasegmental features compared with the speech-only group, while the non-embodied logatome group did not.

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Actions as a Basis for Online Embodied Concepts

Cited by 2 publications

References 35 publications

Understanding perceptual change as a movement in literal and metaphorical sentences

Understanding perceptual change as a movement in literal and metaphorical sentences

Embodied Prosodic Training Helps Improve Accentedness and Suprasegmental Accuracy

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