Multimodality and Visual Language – Prof. Dr. Neil Cohn

Описание: Multimodality and Visual Language – Prof. Dr. Neil Cohn (Tilburg University)

For over a century language has been viewed as an amodal system, but natural human communication combines speech, gestures, writing, and pictures in multimodal interactions. To account for this, we have proposed that unimodal and multimodal expressions arise out of emergent states of a unitary multimodal language faculty. Such a model carries different expectations for the ways in which modalities may be similar or different from each other, and
how they may interact. I will specifically highlight these properties for our graphic modality, which can manifest in pictorial “visual languages” with a systematic lexicon and complex grammar. I will use analyses of comics corpora to show distinctive patterns that suggest they are drawn in typologically diverse visual languages yet still pervaded by “universal” linguistic principles. Finally, I will argue that a Multimodal Paradigm requires us to reconsider our
conceptions of fundamental linguistic phenomena like universals, relativity, and innateness. Altogether, this work argues for a multimodal basis of linguistic structure, and heralds a reconsideration of what constitutes the language system.

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The Graduate Program in Linguistics invites everyone to the first edition of the Linguistics Summer School: an event designed for those who already are, for those who want to be and even for those who didn’t even know they could be a linguist.

LiS 2024 will bring together a strong team of researchers to give four courses, one workshop and two lectures during the week of March 11-15, 2024. The program has been designed to present methods, techniques and assumptions of linguistic analysis that can be applied not only to the various sub-areas of the Language Sciences, but also to other fields of knowledge, such as Computer Sciences, Social Communication, Arts, Literature, Semiotics, Education, among others.

The event is free and the activities will be offered in online and hybrid format. The lectures and courses given by the two international guests will be held at the UFJF campus, with the possibility of broadcast for remote participants. Certificates will be awarded to participants who attend at least 75% of the activities for which they have registered.

LiS 2024 is a collaboration between the UFJF Graduate Program in Linguistics, through PROEX/CAPES, and the Brazilian Linguistics Association, which is part of the ABRALIN Summer School initiative.