Descripción del proyecto
Un estudio más detallado sobre las expresiones deícticas espaciales y los gestos para señalar
Para apuntar objetos en el mundo, las personas utilizan expresiones deícticas orales (como «esto», «eso», «aquí» y «ahí») y gestos con la cabeza y las manos. El proyecto REaCHeS, financiado con fondos europeos, investiga cómo los hablantes utilizan estas señales durante la indicación de direcciones. Concretamente, el proyecto se centra en las expresiones deícticas orales y en los gestos para señalar en hablantes de chatino oriental (un idioma zapoteca empleado en Oaxaca, México). Este idioma poco estudiado cuenta con un rico conjunto de deícticos orales, así como gestos para señalar, que transmiten información acerca de la distancia al objetivo. El proyecto estudia cómo las personas combinan las numerosas señales para apuntar, ricas en información, que tienen disponibles durante la navegación en el mundo real y las actividades de indicación de direcciones.
Objetivo
To locate objects in the world, speakers typically use two linked indicating behaviours: spatial deictic expressions and pointing gestures. A growing body of research focuses on both of these indicating types, asking how semantic information is encoded in each modality, and investigating the factors that condition speakers’ use of indicating strategies in isolation and in combination. The proposed research programme will explore these questions by examining multimodal indicating behaviours in speakers of Eastern Chatino (Zapotecan, Otomanguan). The language presents an ideal system for examination because of its typologically unusual demonstrative system; its manual pointing system with distance-encoding formational distinctions; and its additional lip pointing system. The planned research programme comprises two studies that probe the semantic encodings of demonstratives and lip- and manual pointing, as well as the factors that motivate speakers to combine them. In Study 1, semistructured interviews will be performed in which speakers describe features of the landscape while walking familiar routes. Video and audio recordings of the multimodal talk in these interviews will be analysed using traditional tools of descriptive linguistics, along with a GIS tool adapted expressly for the research programme to encode the relative geospatial positions of speakers, addressees, and referents. Analysis will generate hypotheses about semantic distinctions encoded in various demonstrative and pointing forms. These, in turn, will be tested In Study 2, a more controlled quasi-experiment (a referential communication task) designed to isolate factors like distance and in/visibility of referent that are often coupled in discourse environments. The research programme is ambitious in its use of new tools to examine multimodal behaviour in a lesser-studied language. Expertise of Chatino speakers and researchers from multiple linguistic subdisciplines will inform its design.
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MSCA-IF-EF-ST - Standard EFCoordinador
22100 Lund
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