The EXBODIED MIND: Motion in Communication and Cognition Research RWTH A h Ui it 8 9A il 2011 RWTH Aachen University, 8-9 April 2011 Gesture, Gesture, Conceptualization, and Conceptualization, and Conceptualization, and Conceptualization, and Distributed Cognition Distributed Cognition Robert F. Williams Appleton Wisconsin Appleton, Wisconsin
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The EXBODIED MIND: Motion in Communication and Cognition Research RWTH A h U i it 8 9 A il 2011RWTH Aachen University, 8-9 April 2011
Gesture, Gesture, Conceptualization, andConceptualization, andConceptualization, and Conceptualization, and Distributed CognitionDistributed Cognition
Robert F. Williams
Appleton WisconsinAppleton, Wisconsin
ApproachApproach
Distributed Cognition Cognitive Semantics
Studying Human CognitionStudying Human CognitionClassical View
Studying Human CognitionStudying Human CognitionClassical View S H I F T Situated View
Cognitive Functional Systems:Everyday Examples
• Tracking attendance
• Determining order of service• Determining order of service
• Counting objects
• Telling time
Functional SystemFunctional System
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C di ti C t li tiCoordination Conceptualization
QuestionsQuestions
• How do people accomplish cognitive activities?How do people accomplish cognitive activities?– coordination of representational media => computation
• How do they construct relevant meanings?• How do they construct relevant meanings?– conceptualization
• How do they guide the meaning of others?– instructional discourse (multimodal)
• How do they reason collaboratively?– group discourse (multimodal)g ( )
MethodsMethods
• Data collectionData collection
– Ethnographic study (cognitive ethnography)
– Quasi-experimental situations
• Analysis
– Distributed cognition: how activities are accomplished
bleaches out situated aspects of cognition & communication
What can be done?What can be done?
• For nowFor now
– Multiple avenues: match approach to question
• For the future: new digital tools
– Transcripts with embedded videos & metadata?
– Links to analyses?
Searchable databases or gesture corpora?– Searchable databases or gesture corpora?
• And then: …?
Selected ReferencesSelected ReferencesFauconnier, G. & Turner, M. (2002). The Way We Think: Conceptual Blending and the
Mind’s Hidden Complexities. New York, NY: Basic Books.Hutchins E (1995) Cognition in the Wild Cambridge MA: MIT PressHutchins, E. (1995). Cognition in the Wild. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.Hutchins, E. (2005). Material anchors for conceptual blends. Journal of Pragmatics,
37(10): 1555-1577.Williams, R. F. (2006). Using cognitive ethnography to study instruction. In S. A. Barab,
K. E. Hay, and D. T. Hickey (Eds.), Proceedings of the 7th International Conference of the Learning Sciences (vol. 2, pp. 838-844). International Society of the Learning Sciences / Erlbaum.
Williams, R. F. (2007). Counting and conceptual blending. 10th International Cognitive ( ) g g gLinguistics Conference, Krakow, July 15-20.
Williams, R. F. (2008a). Gesture as a conceptual mapping tool. In A. Cienki & C. Müller(Eds.), Metaphor and Gesture [Gesture Studies 3] (pp. 55-92). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.Benjamins.
Williams, R. F. (2008b). Situating cognition through conceptual integration. 9th
Conference on Conceptual Structure, Discourse, and Language, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, October 18-20
Williams R F (2010) Gesture in everyday scientific reasoning and explanation 4thWilliams, R. F. (2010). Gesture in everyday scientific reasoning and explanation. 4th
Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies, Europa University Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder, July 25-30.
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