Perspectives on Pantomime
Edited by Przemysław Żywiczyński, Johan Blomberg and Monika Boruta-Żywiczyńska
[Advances in Interaction Studies, 12] 2024. v, 244 pp.
Przemysław Żywiczyński
List of John Benjamins publications for which Przemysław Żywiczyński plays a role.
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Subjects Communication Studies | Evolution of language | Interaction Studies
Articles
2024 Chapter 4. Two types of bodily-mimetic communication: Distinct design specifications and evolutionary trajectories Perspectives 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
2024 Chapter 5. Can pantomime narrate? A cognitive semiotic approach Perspectives on Pantomime, Żywiczyński, Przemysław, Johan Blomberg and Monika Boruta-Żywiczyńska (eds.), pp. 115–138 | Chapter
Adopting the conceptual-empirical loop of cognitive semiotics, we define narrative as a three-part structure consisting of Narration, Story and Event-sequence and primary narrativity as the process of interpreting a narrative from the former to the latter two. We distinguish between simple… read more
2024 Introduction. Perspectives on pantomime: Evolution, development, interaction Perspectives on Pantomime, Żywiczyński, Przemysław, Johan Blomberg and Monika Boruta-Żywiczyńska (eds.), pp. 1–15 | Chapter
2022 What’s in a mime? An exploratory analysis of predictors of communicative success of pantomime Child-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
2020 Language origins: Fitness consequences, platform of trust, cooperation, and turn-taking How 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
2018 Language origins: Fitness consequences, platform of trust, cooperation, and turn-taking How 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
2017 Multimodal-first or pantomime-first? Communicating events through pantomime with and without vocalization Interaction 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. In… read more
2017 Adaptors and the turn-taking mechanism: The distribution of adaptors relative to turn borders in dyadic conversation Interaction 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
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