Robert F. Williams
List of John Benjamins publications for which Robert F. Williams plays a role.
2022 Coordinating and sharing gesture spaces in collaborative reasoning Gesture 21:1, pp. 115–149 | Article
In collaborative reasoning about what causes the seasons, phases of the moon, and tides, participants (three to four per group) introduce ideas by gesturing depictively in personal space. Other group members copy and vary these gestures, imbuing their gesture spaces with similar conceptual… read more
2019 The source-path-goal image schema in gestures for thinking and teaching Review of Cognitive Linguistics 17:2, pp. 411–437 | Article
This article examines source-path-goal image-schematic structure in gestures used to solve counting problems (gesture for thinking) and to teach children how to read a clock (gesture for teaching). The analyses illustrate how path schemas inherent in idealized cognitive models are exhibited in… read more
2008 Guided Conceptualization: Mental Spaces in Instructional Discourse Mental Spaces in Discourse and Interaction, Oakley, Todd and Anders Hougaard (eds.), pp. 209–234 | Article
2008 Gesture as a conceptual mapping tool Metaphor and Gesture, Cienki, Alan and Cornelia Müller (eds.), pp. 55–92 | Article
Metaphoric understandings emerge when conceptual mappings link elements of one domain with elements of another. Cross-domain mappings seem powerful and creative, but even mundane meanings involve mappings that link elements with one another. Instructional interactions bring the process of… read more