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The paper presents a review of principles and applicability of collostructional analysis — a cluster of corpus methods developed by Anatol Stefanowitsch and Stefan Th. Gries since 2003. Collostructional analysis measures the strength of association by which lexemes are attracted to a particular position in a construction. It derives from the Construction Grammar concept of construction as conventionalized pairing of form and meaning. Collostructional analysis allows for systematic measurements of the degree of conventionalization of constructions. The paper introduces various types of collostructional analysis and provides an overview of research areas where collostructional analysis has been employed. It concludes with a case showing how collostructional analysis can be applied to the description of Czech.
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The paper introduces Ruth Wodak’s professional career in the research area of discourse analysis, it describes the Discourse-Historical Approach (DHA) to discourse analysis via its key concepts (discourse, context, interdisciplinarity). On the basis of two case studies, it shows how the application of DHA on particular discourses looks like.
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Příspěvek představuje odborné působení Ruth Wodakové v oblasti analýzy diskurzu, popisuje klíčové charakteristiky diskurzivně-historického přístupu (diskurz, kontext, interdisciplinarita) a na dvou případových studiích ukazuje, jak vypadá aplikace tohoto přístupu v praxi.
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The present study focuses on strategies which speakers employ when gesturing in a shared articulatory space. Using data from English and Czech multimodal corpora of spontaneous business meetings, we conducted a qualitative analysis of gestural patterns based on two strategies: alignment and elaboration of gestures representing abstract/conceptual objects. We show that speakers make use of both strategies in the context of co-operative meaning formation (with various pragmatic functions) and that the notions of alignment and elaboration provide useful analytic and descriptive tools for the study of human interaction from a multimodal perspective.
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The present study applies the theory of intersubjectivity to language and cognitive development in children, particularly their involvement in joint activities which rely heavily on the intersubjective coordination of mental states (e.g. shared goals, intentions and beliefs about the world) and corresponding actions among participants (Verhagen, 2015; Clark, 1996, 2006). The participation in joint activities has been reported to enhance child development, bootstrapping both their communicative competence and understanding of mental contents of others. To show these effects, we present a qualitative analysis of an interaction between a three- -year-old child and her parent during a social pretend play, investigating both the situations where the child successfully followed the normative rules of a joint activity as well as those where the coordination between the participants was difficult to achieve and the negotiation of participants’ perspectives had to be introduced. Overall, the theoretical perspective based on the intersubjective coordination of participants during interactions not only proved to be fruitful for a complex inspection of child-parent communication, but also, due to its complexity and sociopragmatic basis, demonstrated some advantages over the traditional Theory of Mind model.
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Language interaction is a multimodal phenomenon. Although traditionally deemed mere epiphenomenon of language, co-speech gestures and other non-verbal means are crucial to all aspects of communication. In this paper, we focus on co-speech gestures from the perspective of cognitivist approaches to language, particularly Construction Grammar. We attempt to make a case for Multimodal Construction Grammar as a promising way of taking co-speech gesture into a holistic symbol-based account, that adheres to both cognitive as well as interactionist principles.
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In this paper, we first review the existing evidence of gesture-prosody alignment in information structure marking, focusing on specific gestural patterns that were observed to co-occur with various information structure constructions. Then we complement the evidence with the results of a corpus-based study of gesture-speech alignment in Czech. Analyzing a sample of 80 minutes of personal narratives by 16 speakers collected from a Czech multimodal corpus, we observed that by far the most frequent information structure units accompanied by gestures were foci. In line with previous research, we observed that pitch and intensity peaks lag behind the gesture stroke onset (on average by 300 ms). We also provide new evidence for a systematic variation in the duration of the temporal shift related to the marking of discourse contrast.
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