LINGUIST List 29.933
Tue Feb 27 2018
Confs: Applied Linguistics/Poland
Editor for this issue: Kenneth Steimel <kenlinguistlist.org>
Date: 26-Feb-2018
From: Anna Jelec <jelec
amu.edu.pl>
Subject: Encoding/decoding affect in communication
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Date: 24-Sep-2018 - 26-Sep-2018
Location: Poznan, Poland
Contact:
Kamila Dębowska-Kozłowska
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Meeting Description:
Both cognitive and affective
content need to be factored in to account for the many facets of communication. This
session is aimed at providing a forum for a multidisciplinary discussion on
empirical and theoretical aspects of how affect and language interact in
communication. We are interested in putting together the varying modalities and
modes of expressing and processing affective meaning.
We want to explore
how the linguistic content is combined with the affective content in the study of
multimodal communication that involves both affective encoding and affective
cognition. When communicating people encode the foremost contents of their minds,
thoughts and feelings into multimodal repertoire of cues: verbal, vocal and visual
(face- and body-language). Communication relies on the complex multimodal systems of
meaning encoded and expressed via these diverse modalities of verbal and nonverbal
signs. Affective cognition, i.e. the use of domain-general reasoning for processing
affective content that is situation specific, is part of communicative decoding.
Emotional cue integration is thus seen as a part of inferential processing that
relies on multimodal contextual cues. Our session aims to investigate these diverse
communicative modalities employed to communicative means in meaning-sharing, and
meaning-making.
Since we delve into a truly interdisciplinary field of
investigation with a vast array of methods applied to its studying, we encourage
contributions from linguistics and beyond as long as they are probing the means and
modes of affective communication and its comprehension. Multidisciplinary research
frameworks employing multimodal data, verbal, visual, paralinguistic, audio and
audio-visual are are welcome.
Possible foci include:
- Verbal and
non-verbal signs of communication of affective meanings (e.g., kinesics, gestures)
- Verbal and vocal cues in affective communication
- Affect/language
interactions in L1/L2
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