Sławomir Wacewicz

List of John Benjamins publications for which Sławomir Wacewicz plays a role.

Journal

Hartmann, Stefan, Sławomir Wacewicz, Andrea Ravignani, Daria Valente, Evelina Daniela Rodrigues, Rie Asano and Yannick Jadoul 2024 Delineating the field of language evolution research: A quantitative analysis of peer-review patterns at the Joint Conference on Language Evolution (JCoLE 2022)Interaction Studies 25:1, pp. 100–117 | Article
Research on language evolution is an established subject area yet permeated by terminological controversies about which topics should be considered pertinent to the field and which not. By consequence, scholars focusing on language evolution struggle in providing precise demarcations of the… read more
Wacewicz, Sławomir and Przemysław Żywiczyński 2024 Chapter 4. Two types of bodily-mimetic communication: Distinct design specifications and evolutionary trajectoriesPerspectives on Pantomime, Żywiczyński, Przemysław, Johan Blomberg and Monika Boruta-Żywiczyńska (eds.), pp. 100–114 | Chapter
In this paper, we outline a novel approach to the study of pantomime, through applying the logic of evolutionary signalling theory to analysing the properties of the proposed precursors of language, in particular bodily-mimetic communication. We rely on a classic account by Krebs & Dawkins… read more
Sibierska, Marta, Monika Boruta-Żywiczyńska, Przemysław Żywiczyński and Sławomir Wacewicz 2022 What’s in a mime? An exploratory analysis of predictors of communicative success of pantomimeChild-Robot Interaction: Design, Evaluation, and Novel Solutions, Couto, Marta, Shruti Chandra, Elmira Yadollahi and Vicky Charisi (eds.), pp. 289–321 | Article
Several lines of research within developmental psychology, experimental semiotics and language origins studies have recently converged in their interest in pantomime as a system of bodily communication distinct from both language (spoken or signed) and nonlinguistic gesticulation. These… read more
Arbib, Michael A., Francisco Aboitiz, Judith M. Burkart, Michael C. Corballis, Gino Coudé, Erin Hecht, Katja Liebal, Masako Myowa-Yamakoshi, James Pustejovsky, Shelby S. Putt, Federico Rossano, Anne E. Russon, P. Thomas Schoenemann, Uwe Seifert, Katerina Semendeferi, Chris Sinha, Dietrich Stout, Virginia Volterra, Sławomir Wacewicz and Benjamin Wilson 2020 The comparative neuroprimatology 2018 (CNP-2018) road map for research on How the Brain Got LanguageHow the Brain Got Language – Towards a New Road Map, Arbib, Michael A. (ed.), pp. 370–387 | Chapter
We present a new road map for research on “How the Brain Got Language” that adopts an EvoDevoSocio perspective and highlights comparative neuroprimatology – the comparative study of brain, behavior and communication in extant monkeys and great apes – as providing a key grounding for hypotheses on… read more
Wacewicz, Sławomir and Przemysław Żywiczyński 2020 Language origins: Fitness consequences, platform of trust, cooperation, and turn-takingHow the Brain Got Language – Towards a New Road Map, Arbib, Michael A. (ed.), pp. 167–182 | Chapter
In this paper, we complement proximate or ‘how’ explanations for the origins of language, broadening our perspective to include fitness-consequences explanations, i.e. ultimate, or ‘why’ explanations. We identify the platform of trust as a fundamental prerequisite for the development of a… read more
Arbib, Michael A., Francisco Aboitiz, Judith M. Burkart, Michael C. Corballis, Gino Coudé, Erin Hecht, Katja Liebal, Masako Myowa-Yamakoshi, James Pustejovsky, Shelby S. Putt, Federico Rossano, Anne E. Russon, P. Thomas Schoenemann, Uwe Seifert, Katerina Semendeferi, Chris Sinha, Dietrich Stout, Virginia Volterra, Sławomir Wacewicz and Benjamin Wilson 2018 The comparative neuroprimatology 2018 (CNP-2018) road map for research on How the Brain Got Language How the Brain Got Language: Towards a New Road Map, Arbib, Michael A. (ed.), pp. 370–387 | Article
We present a new road map for research on “How the Brain Got Language” that adopts an EvoDevoSocio perspective and highlights comparative neuroprimatology – the comparative study of brain, behavior and communication in extant monkeys and great apes – as providing a key grounding for hypotheses… read more
Wacewicz, Sławomir and Przemysław Żywiczyński 2018 Language origins: Fitness consequences, platform of trust, cooperation, and turn-takingHow the Brain Got Language: Towards a New Road Map, Arbib, Michael A. (ed.), pp. 167–182 | Article
In this paper, we complement proximate or ‘how’ explanations for the origins of language, broadening our perspective to include fitness-consequences explanations, i.e. ultimate, or ‘why’ explanations. We identify the platform of trust as a fundamental prerequisite for the development of a… read more
Zlatev, Jordan, Sławomir Wacewicz, Przemysław Żywiczyński and Joost van de Weijer 2017 Multimodal-first or pantomime-first? Communicating events through pantomime with and without vocalizationInteraction and Iconicity in the Evolution of Language, Hartmann, Stefan, Michael Pleyer, James Winters and Jordan Zlatev (eds.), pp. 465–488 | Article
A persistent controversy in language evolution research has been whether language emerged in the gestural-visual or in the vocal-auditory modality. A “dialectic” solution to this age-old debate has now been gaining ground: language was fully multimodal from the start and remains so to this day.… read more
Żywiczyński, Przemysław, Sławomir Wacewicz and Sylwester Orzechowski 2017 Adaptors and the turn-taking mechanism: The distribution of adaptors relative to turn borders in dyadic conversationInteraction Studies 18:2, pp. 276–298 | Article
Turn-taking – the coordinated and efficient transition between the roles of sender and receiver in communication – is a fundamental property of conversational interaction. The turn-taking mechanism depends on a variety of linguistic factors related to syntax, semantics and prosody, which have… read more
Wacewicz, Sławomir, Przemysław Żywiczyński and Sylwester Orzechowski 2016 Visible movements of the orofacial area: Evidence for gestural or multimodal theories of language evolution?Gesture 15:2, pp. 250–282 | Article
The age-old debate between the proponents of the gesture-first and speech-first positions has returned to occupy a central place in current language evolution theorizing. The gestural scenarios, suffering from the problem known as “modality transition” (why a gestural system would have changed… read more