尼尔·科恩｜重识“语言机制” (Linguists Online系列讲座 29)

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巴西语言学会(Abralin, Associação Brasileira de Linguística)在疫情期间广泛联络世界各地知名语言学家，策划了Abralin Ao Vivo(即 Linguists Online)系列讲座，自2020年5月起通过YouTube频道向全球直播。获邀参加的语言学家已超过百位，可谓大师云集，规模空前。陕西师大语言与认知研究所(CogLing.cn)与Abralin达成合作，获得独家内容授权，通过认知语言学微信公号向中国学者同行独家转发该系列讲座精选内容。

今日发布精选集第29期，主讲人尼尔·科恩 (Neil Cohn)，讲座题目“Reimagining the language faculty: A multimodal model of language"，直播时间为2021年12月1日。本讲座视频英文字幕为本公号后期制作，限于精力，未经逐字校对，敬请谅解。

Neil Cohn

尼尔·科恩 简介

My research explores the structure and cognition of drawings and visual narratives, like comics. In particular, my work argues that drawings and sequential images are structured and processed using similar principles and mechanisms as spoken and signed languages. My work explores these "visual languages" across all levels of structure. I use linguistic theory to detail how these systems are structured, and corpus analysis to examine how they differ across cultures. Finally, I use psychological methods of experimentation, primarily cognitive neuroscience (EEG), to examine how people's brains process individual and sequential images, and how graphics are integrated with text in multimodal relationships. I am currently writing and drawing a non-fiction graphic book about this research about  the relationship between graphic communication and language, and the multimodal connections between them.

讲座英文摘要

Natural human communication is multimodal. We pair speech with gestures, use emoji with text, and combine writing with images from doodles to comics to advertising. This communication is structurally complex, especially in visual narratives where grammatical structures organize both the sequential text (syntax) and the sequential images (narrative). Such complexity poses a challenge to linguistic models that focus on single modalities. Multimodality also clearly uses patterned “templates” akin to the productive lexicon of language, be it in comics, cartoons, memes, advertisements, and more. I will outline a model of the language faculty for addressing this complexity embedded within Jackendoff’s (2002) Parallel Architecture of language. Different types of human expression — speech, gesture, drawings, and their multimodal interactions — arise as emergent activation states out of this broader cognitive architecture, reimagining what constitutes the language system.

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Cohn, N. (2013). The Visual Language of Comics: Introduction to the Structure and Cognition of Sequential Images. A&C Black.

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