• Analyzing polysemiosis: Language, gesture, and depiction in two cultural practices with sand drawing 

      Zlatev, Jordan; Devylder, Simon; Defina, Rebecca; Moskaluk, Kalina; Andersen, Linea Brink (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-06-26)
      Human communication is by default polysemiotic: it involves the spontaneous combination of two or more semiotic systems, the most important ones being language, gesture, and depiction. We formulate an original cognitive-semiotic framework for the analysis of polysemiosis, contrasting this with more familiar systems based on the ambiguous term “multimodality.” To be fully explicit, we developed ...
    • Motion event descriptions in Swedish, French, Thai and Telugu: a study in post-Talmian motion event typology 

      Devylder, Simon; Zlatev, Jordan; Blomberg, Johan; Naidu, Viswanath; van de Weijer, Joost (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2021-03-04)
      Motion-event typology has moved into a “post-Talmian” terrain of approaches focusing on an open-ended number of patterns across languages and constructions. Following a proposal to distinguish between four typological clusters, we systematically compared the motion event descriptions in four languages suggested to exemplify these clusters: Swedish, French, Thai and Telugu, with the help of an ...