Between Language and Consciousness: Linguistic Qualia, Awareness, and Cognitive Models

Konderak, Piotr

doi:10.1515/slgr-2016-0068

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“…If sign languages did not share the fundamentals we find in spoken languages, this would suggest that it is speech, not language per se, that is characterized by these primitives and constraints. Such a finding would be heavily disappointing, given that a good amount of research in the cognitive sciences takes such commonalities as a given, including work on concept learning (Moreton, Pater, & Pertsova, 2017), reading (Petitto et al, 2016; Tunmer & Hoover, 2019; among many), and psychological consciousness (Konderak, 2016).…”

Section: Discussion Of a More General Naturementioning

confidence: 99%

Correlations Between Handshape and Movement in Sign Languages

Napoli

Ferrara²

2021

Cognitive Science

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Sign language phonological parameters are somewhat analogous to phonemes in spoken language. Unlike phonemes, however, there is little linguistic literature arguing that these parameters interact at the sublexical level. This situation raises the question of whether such interaction in spoken language phonology is an artifact of the modality or whether sign language phonology has not been approached in a way that allows one to recognize sublexical parameter interaction. We present three studies in favor of the latter alternative: a shape-drawing study with deaf signers from six countries, an online dictionary study of American Sign Language, and a study of selected lexical items across 34 sign languages. These studies show that, once iconicity is considered, handshape and movement parameters interact at the sublexical level. Thus, consideration of iconicity makes transparent similarities in grammar across both modalities, allowing us to maintain certain key findings of phonological theory as evidence of cognitive architecture.

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Section: Discussion Of a More General Naturementioning

confidence: 99%

Correlations Between Handshape and Movement in Sign Languages

Napoli

Ferrara²

2021

Cognitive Science

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“…Cognitive semiotics emerged over the past two decades to accommodate the growing need for a better understanding of the relations between mind, meaning and communication (Zlatev 2012;Sonesson 2015a;Konderak 2016;Lenninger 2016). Dedicated to the transdisciplinary study of meaning, cognitive semiotics combines concepts and methods from semiotics, linguistics and cognitive science.…”

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Translating from monosemiotic to polysemiotic narratives: A study of Finnish speech and gestures

Louhema

Zlatev

Graziano

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Human communication can be either monosemiotic or polysemiotic, depending on whether it combines ensembles of representations from one or more semiotic systems such as language, gesture and depiction. Each semiotic system has its unique storytelling potentials, which makes intersemiotic translation from one system to another challenging. We investigated the influence of the source semiotic system, realised in speech and a sequence of pictures, respectively, on the way the same story was retold using speech and co-speech gestures. The story was the content of the picture book Frog, Where Are You?. A group of Finnish speakers saw the story in pictures, and another group heard it in matched oral narration. Each participant retold the story to an addressee and all narrations were video-recorded and analysed for both speech and gestures. Given the high degree of iconicity in depiction, we expected more iconic gestures (especially enactments) in the narratives translated from pictures than in those translated from speech. Conversely, we expected greater narrative coherence in the narratives translated from speech. The results showed that more iconic gestures were produced in the narratives translated from speech, but these were primarily not from the enactment subtype. As expected, iconic enactments were more frequent in the narratives translated from the story presented in pictures. The narratives produced by participants who had only heard the story did not have a greater variety of connective devices, yet the type of devices differed slightly between the groups. Together with some additional differences between the groups that had not been anticipated, the results indicate that a story presented in different semiotic systems tends to be translated into different polysemiotic narratives.

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“…The problem of the relation between consciousness and language as a cognitive process has recently gained significant interest and evoked numerous discussions. The reason may lie in the fact thaton the one handlanguage has always been considered one of the most important mental (and cognitive) faculties; on the other hand, one can observe growing interest in consciousness within cognitive science [10].…”

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Revisiting Human’s Place and Role in Humanitarian Anthropocentric Research of Language and Communication

Lugowska¹

2020

Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Contemporary Education, Social Sciences and Humanities - Philosophy of Being Hum

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The author contemplates on the human's place in the language and the communicating. He gives the analysis in terms of anthropocentric and linguistic paradigm, philosophical and cultural knowledge. The author suggests determining the human role in the language with term anthropo. It has a language and culture manifestation through iconization, indexation and symbolization; it concerns the philosophical problems of consciousness, the self and not-self identifying. The problem is actually toward metamodern as the present paradigm of synthetic thinking, which leads to the transformation of subjectivity (agency). The subjectivity spread in the language gradually disappears as a paradigmatic structure, giving up its properties to the language realized in communicating. The sign anthropo has the cognitions as a content plan and the person in his functionality as an expression plan. The anthropo as communicating the self and not-self is the bit of anthropocentrical information that designates ontologically the social existence of human, culture, language, communicating and consciousness.

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Between Language and Consciousness: Linguistic Qualia, Awareness, and Cognitive Models

Cited by 6 publications

References 19 publications

Correlations Between Handshape and Movement in Sign Languages

Correlations Between Handshape and Movement in Sign Languages

Translating from monosemiotic to polysemiotic narratives: A study of Finnish speech and gestures

Revisiting Human’s Place and Role in Humanitarian Anthropocentric Research of Language and Communication

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