A guest talk by\u00a0Patrick Grosz and Pritty Patel-Grosz from the University of Oslo, who will present their recent research on form and meaning in the Indian dance form Bharatanatyam in the CASTL colloquium on Friday at 14.15 in E0105.<\/p>\n
The talk “Exploring the Semantics of Dance” (see abstract below) will be \u00a0followed by a social gathering at the blue sofa\u00a0group\u00a0with food and wine. They will also\u00a0give a talk on pronouns and demonstratives on Monday — more details to follow shortly. Recent linguistic research has extended the application of formal\u00a0syntactic and semantic methodology to non-linguistic phenomena such as\u00a0music (Lerdahl & Jackendoff 1983, Katz & Pesetsky 2011, Schlenker 2016)\u00a0and dance (Napoli & Kraus 2015, Charnavel 2016). The overarching goal of\u00a0such research programs is to understand the underlying cognitive \u00a0building blocks that language shares with other aspects of human\u00a0cognition. Our own ongoing research on the semantics of dance focuses on\u00a0Bharatanatyam<\/em>, a narrative dance form. By virtue of video and motion\u00a0capture recording, we\u00a0explore the possibilities of encoding co-reference and disjoint\u00a0reference in this dance form. We take as our point of departure recent\u00a0work such as Abusch (2013), who explores co-reference outside of spoken\u00a0language in comics without text. Our pilot production study shows that\u00a0disjoint reference involves more complexity than co-reference, in the\u00a0sense that a larger-level group boundary (cf. Charnavel 2016) is\u00a0introduced. Furthermore, in addition to a manual gesture for “a\u00a0different (man\/woman),” the dancer encodes disjoint reference by means\u00a0of mirroring of orientation, direction and posture. We propose to\u00a0account for this difference (between a manual gesture and global\u00a0mirroring) in terms of an at-issue vs. non-at-issue distinction, which\u00a0is reminiscent of phenomena such as speech-accompanying gestures (Ebert\u00a0& Ebert 2014, Schlenker 2015).<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A guest talk by\u00a0Patrick Grosz and Pritty Patel-Grosz from the University of Oslo, who will present their recent research on form and meaning in the Indian dance form Bharatanatyam in the CASTL colloquium on Friday at 14.15 in E0105. The … Continue reading
\nExploring the Semantics of Dance<\/strong>
\nPritty Patel-Grosz, Patrick Grosz, Tejaswinee Kelkar and Alexander
\nJensenius (University of Oslo)<\/p>\n