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#pgsw19 closing discussion. The "What is iconicity?" question comes up. Translucent vs transparent, iconic vs indexical, linguistic encoding = conventionalization. Iconicity is resemblance, not direct representation. 
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"Imagine you're in a noisy bar and want to ask your friend if they want a drink, they won't hear you but so understand if you also add a gesture."
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Linda plays a video clip of a person pronouncing a Dutch verb but with a scrape-sounding noise filter added.
Streeck: "Well, it sounds like Dutch."
[laughter]
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Streeck: "Well, it sounds like Dutch."
[laughter]
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Final talk of the morning session of day 2 of #pgsw19: @JakubJehlicka on multimodal construction grammar and analyzing multimodality "in the wild"
Whereas both English and Czech used bounded gestures with telic cxs, only English used more unbounded gestures with atelic cxs
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Cline of construction–gesture co-occurrence. Some gestures are bound to and strongly associated with certain cxs, others are independent and combine with any cx
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One of the independent ones are "air quotes", which can co-occur with basically anything.
'Like if you go home and your friend tells you: «How was your "business trip" to Prague?»'
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'Like if you go home and your friend tells you: «How was your "business trip" to Prague?»'
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@JPdeRuiter on iconic gestures as the first talk at the #pgsw19 workshop. Gestures are more ad hoc and less conventionalized than language. "You can't see on someone's gestures that they're from South Boston, for instance."
Iconic gestures are interesting because they
– are created on the go (not conventional)
– are intricately linked to speech production
– add redundancy with speech which facilitates comprehension for the listener
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– are created on the go (not conventional)
– are intricately linked to speech production
– add redundancy with speech which facilitates comprehension for the listener
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Gestures still have shared interpretation. How we interpret cabin attendant safety information gestures. Similarly, @JPdeRuiter says he played Massachusetts car honks at UCLA, and the intended meaning is interpreted correctly. "And a car honk is a one-dimensional signal!"
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@JakubJehlicka opening the gesture-sign workshop in Prague! Excited for these two days here!
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Possible hashtag conflict btw... #pgsw19 was and is announced on the website, #gswp19 was mentioned on the intro slide. Could we decide on one? @JakubJehlicka @ortega_ger
I'm going #pgsw19 based on frequency. Team Zipf.
