Cognitive linguistics?

[mathmatt]

Hello everyone, I need some help in understanding the basics of cognitive linguistics and I would like to know how gesture study fits into the cognitive linguistics theory.

[onzeheures30]

Do you mean co-speech gestures? To my knowledge there's been very little rigorous research in this direction.

 

Among what I am familiar with there is this work by Ebert and Ebert: http://www.ilg.uni-stuttgart.de/mitarbeiter/ebert/GestenWS-Stuttgart/Folien/Ebert.pdf And Philippe Schlenker from my department (and Institut Jean-Nicod) has recently started looking into co-speech gestures in conjunction with his research on sign languages linguistics (the major idea is to see whether some of the grammatical devices present in sign languages but seemingly absent in spoken languages can be found in co-speech gestures); here is a very short squib outlining the direction of his current research: http://ling.auf.net/lingbuzz/002158/current.pdf 

Edited November 4, 2014 by onzeheures30

[tspier2]

You can also look at Orie (2013) for some recent work on gestures in Yoruba.

[Entropist]

There's a group at the VU Amsterdam working on this. Maybe there's something interesting in their list of publications: http://amsterdamgesturecenter.com/publications/

I know they're doing studies using corpora of gesture-annotated video data, and work in the cognitive linguistics framework.