Semantics of gesture

C Ebert - Annual Review of Linguistics, 2024‏ - annualreviews.org
Current formal semantic theories aim at capturing gestural semantic contributions and in
particular their interplay with the semantics that stems from cooccurring speech. To grasp …

The study of gesture in cognitive linguistics: How it could inform and inspire other research in cognitive science

A Cienki - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
Cognitive linguists are increasingly extending their paradigm to include the study of
gestures. The bottom‐up, usage‐based approach in cognitive linguistics has advanced the …

Presupposition

DI Beaver - Handbook of logic and language, 1997‏ - Elsevier
Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the linguistic and philosophical theories that
vary in the extent to which they involve definitions of presupposition, which are close to this …

Indirectly direct: An account of demonstratives and pointing

D Ahn - Linguistics and Philosophy, 2022‏ - Springer
There has been a long debate on whether demonstratives are directly referential as Kaplan
originally argued, or indirectly referential like a definite description. I propose a new analysis …

Demonstratives as dimension shifters

C Ebert, C Ebert, R Hörnig - Proceedings of Sinn und …, 2020‏ - ojs.ub.uni-konstanz.de
Drawing on earlier work by Ebert and Ebert (2014), we argue that co-speech gestures
contribute non-at-issue information by default (cf. Schlenker, 2018), flesh out their proposal …

A semantics of face emoji in discourse

PG Grosz, G Greenberg, C De Leon, E Kaiser - Linguistics and Philosophy, 2023‏ - Springer
This paper presents an analysis of face emoji (disc-shaped pictograms with stylized facial
expressions) that accompany written text. We propose that there is a use of face emoji in …

Iconic pragmatics

P Schlenker - Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 2018‏ - Springer
Recent comparative semantics suggests that sign language makes use of the same logical
resources as spoken language, but has richer mechanisms of iconic enrichment. It is often …

The iconic-symbolic spectrum

G Greenberg - Philosophical Review, 2023‏ - read.dukeupress.edu
It is common to distinguish two great families of representation. Symbolic representations
include logical and mathematical symbols, words, and complex linguistic expressions. Iconic …

[ספר][B] Context and coherence: The logic and grammar of prominence

U Stojnić - 2021‏ - books.google.com
Natural languages are riddled with context-sensitivity. One and the same string of words can
express many different meanings on occasion of use, and yet we understand one another …

Gestural grammar

P Schlenker - Natural Language & Linguistic Theory, 2020‏ - Springer
We argue that some properties of sign language grammar have counterparts in non-signers'
intuitions about gestures, including ones that are probably very uncommon. Thus despite the …