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From Body to Language: Gestural and Pantomimic Scenarios of Language Origin in the Enlightenment
Gestural and pantomimic accounts of language origins propose that language did not develop directly from ape vocalisations, but rather that its...
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On Mathematical Language: Characteristics, Semiosis and Indispensability
Mathematicians and others often discuss mathematics as a universal language, and say that mathematics holds a special status among sciences. In...
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Opacity, Machine Learning and Explainable AI
Artificial Intelligence is being applied in a multitude of scenarios that are sensitive to the human user, i.e., medical diagnosis, granting loans,...
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Wundt and Bühler on Gestural Expression: From Psycho-Physical Mirroring to the Diacrisis
This paper explores how Wundt’s and Bühler’s respective conceptions of gestural expression have implications for how each conceives of what, in broad...
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The Cognitive Construction of Dialog: Language and Mind
The rapid spread of interdisciplinary methods on the study of language has provoked a massive reconfiguration of the concept of dialog in research....
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Multimodal Corpora
This chapter provides an overview of current advances in multimodal corpus linguistics. It defines what multimodal corpora are, what they can be used...
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Rhythm and the embodied aesthetics of infant-caregiver dialogue: insights from phenomenology
This paper explores how phenomenological notions of rhythm might accommodate a richer description of preverbal infant-caregiver dialogue....
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Playing with Arte(f)actors
Arte(f)actors are artefacts that mimic to be actors. Can artifacts play or mimic playing with human actors, or are they necessarily staged in...
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The Need for Specialized Oncology Training for Clinical Ethicists
Numerous ethical issues are raised in cancer treatment and research. Informed consent is challenging due to complex treatment modalities and...
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From ‘Motivation’ to ‘Constraints’, from ‘Discourse’ to ‘Modeling System’: Steering Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis Towards Cybersemiotics
Much contemporary applied, and externally-funded research requires interdisciplinarity to tackle complex world problems for sustainable future...
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Contradiction by Default. On the Discourses before Popular Votes in Switzerland
Unlike in many other discourses, contradicting and arguing are standard practices in the discourses before popular votes in Switzerland. Working with...
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Internet Conversation: The New Challenges of Digital Dialogue
Traditionally, dialogue has been conceived as communicative interaction that consists of turn-taking, alternating roles and face-to-face...
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The politics of past and future: synthetic media, showing, and telling
Generative artificial intelligence has given us synthetic media that are increasingly easy to create and increasingly hard to distinguish from...
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Introduction
Systemic functional linguistics (SFL) has been develo** for more than 60 years since the publication of Halliday’s (1956) “Grammatical categories...
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From Mask to Flesh and Back: A Semiotic Analysis of the Actor’s Face Between Theatre and Cinema
We aim to focus on the mimic gestures intentionally produced to be “monstrate” to others (expressive gestures), thus attempting to propose a semiotic...
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Ethics and Evidence: Is Evidence from Randomized Controlled Trials Necessary to Firmly Establish a New Therapy?
In this chapter, I explore ethical issues that may arise in conducting randomized controlled trials to test therapeutic hypotheses, and address the...
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Corpus Compilation
This chapter deals with the fundamentals of corpus compilation, approached from a practical perspective. The topics covered follow the key phases of...
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Interaction Analysis as an Embodied and Interactive Process: Multimodal, Co-operative, and Intercorporeal Ways of Seeing Video Data as Complementary Professional Visions
The analysis of video-recorded interaction consists of various professionalized ways of seeing participant behavior through multimodal, co-operative,...
