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<p>The paper explores multimodal languaging of objects and words as an encultured practice. We report the results of the experiment where the participants explained the difference between close synonyms, enacting them as either objects or words in speech and gesture. The basic claim of the study is that speech and gesture as second-order language reflect the way they were acquired in developing the knowledge of objects and words in reification image-schemas. We found that i) object reification occurs twice more often; ii) enacting objects and words is affected by the same image-schemas expressed in speech and gesture types, still there are differences in their distribution in speech. This observation evidences that both gesture-specific and language-specific notions are part of languaging since the speech and gesture patterns present the way of packaging the shared idea of objects of reference.</p>
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The paper explores multimodal languaging of objects and words as an encultured practice. We report the results of the experiment where the participants explained the difference between close synonyms, enacting them as either objects or words in speech and gesture. The basic claim of the study is that speech and gesture as second-order language reflect the way they were acquired in developing the knowledge of objects and words in reification image-schemas. We found that i) object reification occurs twice more often; ii) enacting objects and words is affected by the same image-schemas expressed in speech and gesture types, still there are differences in their distribution in speech. This observation evidences that both gesture-specific and language-specific notions are part of languaging since the speech and gesture patterns present the way of packaging the shared idea of objects of reference.

Multimodal languaging: Reification profiles in language and gesture

Linguistic Frontiers

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The paper explores multimodal languaging of objects and words as an encultured practice. We report the results of the experiment where the participants...

Multimodal languaging: Reification profiles in language and gesture

Published Online: Oct 26, 2023

Page range: 78 - 91

Received: Feb 01, 2023

Accepted: Mar 01, 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/lf-2023-0014

Keywords
Multimodal languaging, reification, word, object, image-schema, gesture type

© 2023 Olga Iriskhanova et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Multimodal languaging: Reification profiles in language and gesture

Published Online: Oct 26, 2023

Page range: 78 - 91

Received: Feb 01, 2023

Accepted: Mar 01, 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/lf-2023-0014

KeywordsMultimodal languaging, reification, word, object, image-schema, gesture type

© 2023 Olga Iriskhanova et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Keywords
Multimodal languaging, reification, word, object, image-schema, gesture type