讲座视频｜阿兰·钦奇：语言学中的“手势转向”（Linguists Online系列讲座）

Abralin 应用语言学研习 2022-06-09

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巴西语言学会(Abralin, Associação Brasileira de Linguística)在疫情期间广泛联络世界各地知名语言学家，策划了Abralin Ao Vivo(即 Linguists Online)系列讲座，自去年5月起通过YouTube频道向全球直播。获邀参加的语言学家已超过百位，可谓大师云集，规模空前。陕西师大语言与认知研究所(CogLing.cn)与Abralin达成合作，获得独家内容授权，通过认知语言学微信公号向中国学者同行独家转发该系列讲座精选内容。

今日发布精选集第25期，主讲人阿兰·钦奇 (Alan Cienki)，讲座题目“The Gestural Turn in Linguistics"，直播时间为2021年7月15日。视频英文字幕为本公号后期制作，限于精力，未经逐字校对，敬请谅解。在线视频位于英文摘要之后，视频前3分钟为主办方对主讲人的介绍（葡萄牙语）。

阿兰·钦奇简介

Alan Cienki is Professor of Language Use and Cognition at the Vrije Universiteit/VU in Amsterdam, Netherlands, where he has worked since 2006. There he established the Amsterdam Gesture Center. He also holds a part-time appointment as Professor at Moscow State Linguistic University in the Russian Federation where he founded the Multimodal Communication and Cognition Lab, known in Russian as PoliMod. Previously he worked at Emory University, Atlanta, USA in the Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts, the Program in Linguistics (which he co-founded), and the Dept. of Russian and East Asian Languages and Cultures. His research is based in cognitive linguistics, with a focus in recent years on spoken language and gesture. He is a co-editor of Metaphor and Gesture (Benjamins, 2008) and of the two-volume handbook Body–Language–Communication (De Gruyter, 2013, 2014). He is a former Chair of the international Association for Researching and Applying Metaphor/RaAM and is Vice President of the International Society for Gesture Studies/ISGS.

讲座英文摘要

The Gestural Turn In Linguistics: What Does It Bring, and What Does It Bring Back?

The rise of gesture studies as its own field of inquiry has had a number of spin-off effects. For the field of linguistics, the implications have been both methodological and theoretical. Cognitive linguists initially fulfilled their claims to a usage-based approach through analyses of written corpora. What new questions of language use do we confront with the turn to digital video data and concomitant methods of movement analysis? While sign language linguists made many breakthroughs in this regard, what is different methodologically about researchers of spoken languages not only hearing but also looking closely at speakers as moving communicators? The gestural turn has also raised a number of theoretical questions. Some of these have arisen in the analysis of specific linguistic phenomena, as in the discovery of gestural correlates of the lexico-grammatical expression of motion events, or in findings concerning gestural movement qualities relating to aspectual forms used to describe different kinds of events. Some have helped turn a spotlight on phenomena that previously received less attention in linguistics, such as issues connected with the expression of viewpoint, or with the role of imagery as it relates to linguistic semantics in connection with mental simulation. Others have to do with different theorizing about the nature of language itself. In my own work, this has meant a shift from thinking about language as multimodal to analyzing it as one semiotic system that is part of polysemiotic communication (as per Zlatev, 2018). It is worth noting that the ways that the field of gesture studies is moving linguistics ahead actually involve a return to some earlier views. Rather than thinking of language as an entity having an ‘architecture’, or as a formal system based on symbolic logic, the analysis of gesturing speakers puts the focus on language as an embodied experience—something which keeps us in touch with the human nature of our research.

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