CV
Full CV available here (updated March 2024): [pdf]
Publications
Laparle, S. (2023). Gradient at-issueness and semiotic complexity in gesture. Theoretical Linguistics, 49(3-4), 261-268. [paper]
Laparle, S. (2023). Moving past the lexical affiliate with a frame-based analysis of gesture meaning. In Proceedings of GESPIN 2023. Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Netherlands. [paper]
Backus, A. [...] Laparle, S. [...] de Vos, C. (2023). MINDS: big questions for linguistics in the age of AI. Linguistics in the Netherlands, 40, 301-308.
Laparle, S. 2022. The Shape of Discourse: How gesture structures conversation. Doctoral dissertation, University of California – Berkeley. [thesis]
Laparle, S. 2022. The interaction space: Considering speaker-hearer location in co-speech gesture analysis and annotation. In Proceedings of the 24th International conference on human-computer interaction, Semantic, Artificial and Computational Interaction Studies. [paper]
Ko, E. & Laparle, S. 2022. Co-speech gesture and semantic fieldwork: A case study of aspectuals in Crow. In Semantic Field Methods, vol 4, Article 3. [paper]
Laparle, S. 2021. Tracking Discourse Topics in Co-speech Gesture. In International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, 233-249. Springer. [paper]
Laparle, Schuyler. 2020. At the syntax-pragmatics interface: a quantitative study of aspect in locative inversion. In NELS 50: Proceedings of the Forty-Ninth Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society. [manuscript]
Laparle, Schuyler. 2019. Locative inversion without inversion. In NELS 49: Proceedings of the Forty-Ninth Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society, vol. 2, eds. Maggie Baird & Jonathan Pesetsky, 199-208. [manuscript]
Laparle, Schuyler. 2016. Getting the Gist of Just: A Collapse of the Senses. M.A Thesis: University of Edinburgh. [Advisor: Rob Truswell]
Presentations
2024. Discourse resumption as a multimodal or amodal construction. 13th International Conference on Construction Grammar. University of Gothenburg, Sweden. (Accepted, August)
2024. Can gestures speak louder than words? Signaling discourse relations in multi-modal communication. Society for Text & Discourse 2024. Loyola University Chicago, USA. [with Merel Scholman] (Accepted, July)
2024. Who’s the invader? Metaphors of invasion in immigration and ecology. Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines 2024. Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland. [with Sonja Rozental] (Accepted, July)
2023. Moving past the lexical affiliate with a frame-based analysis of gesture meaning. GESPIN 2023. Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Netherlands. (September)
2023. Gesture space ambiguity as conceptual integration. 16th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference. HHU Dusseldorf, Germany. (August) ̈
2023. Gestural discourse markers in multimodal topic-shifting. 18th International Pragmatics Conference. Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. (July) ́
2023. Metaphors for displacement in times of crisis. Researching and Applying Metaphor Conference 16. Universidad de Alcala, Spain. (June) ́
2023. How important is it? The role of hand gestures in managing attentional states. 1st International Multimodal Communication Symposium. Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain. (April)
2023. Why stop talking? The contribution of ‘stopping’ gestures to discourse management in face-to-face communication. 45th Annual conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS), panel on Signaling discourse relations: Exploring (non-)connective cues. Universität zu Köln, Germany. (March) ̈
2022. Interactive gestures as gestural discourse markers. DisCorX 2.0. University of Bern, Switzerland. (November)
2022. Gesturing toward the future: three metaphoric gestures for change in motivational talks. 6th International Conference on Ecolinguistics. University of Graz, Austria. September. [abstract]
2022. The interaction space: Considering speaker-hearer location in co-speech gesture analysis and annotation. 24th International conference on human-computer interaction, Semantic, Artificial and Computational Interaction Studies: Towards a Behavioromics of Multimodal Communication panel. June.
2021. Tracking discourse topics in co-speech gesture. 23rd International conference on human-computer interaction, Semantic, Artificial and Computational Interaction Studies: Towards a Behavioromics of Multimodal Communication panel. July. [abstract]
2021. Constructing metaphors in space: a microanalysis of political argumentation. Researching and Applying Metaphor Conference. Vilnius University, Lithuania. June. [recorded talk]
2021. Choosing source domains to guide metaphoric health reasoning. Researching and Applying Metaphor Conference 14. Vilnius University, Lithuania. June. [with Eve Sweetser, Kelly Jones, Daniel Getter and Akash Kulgod]
2020. Multi-modal QUD management: case studies of topic-shifting. Sinn und Bedeutung 25. University College London and Queen Mary University of London. September. [abstract] [project page]
2020. Gesture space as discourse space: spatial topic-shifting and the conduit metaphor. Researching and Applying Metaphor Conference. Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Hamar, Norway. June. [with Kelly Jones]
2020. Harmful Living Beings: a family of metaphors for cancer. Researching and Applying Metaphor Conference. Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Hamar, Norway. June. [with Eve Sweetser]
2019. At the syntax-pragmatics interface: a quantitative study of aspect in locative inversion. The 50th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society. MIT, Boston. October. [poster] [abstract]
2019. War is war - or is it? Different genres show different metaphors for cancer. 15th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference. Kwansei Gakuin University, Nishinomiya, Japan. August. [with Eve Sweetser] [abstract]
2019. The ‘gun control’ debate is not about controlling guns: the importance of metonymy in political discourse. Researching and Applying Metaphor Specialized Seminar. University of Liége, Belgium. May. [abstract]
2018. Locative Inversion without inversion. The 49th Annual Meeting of the North East Linguistic Society. Cornell University, NY. October. [poster] [abstract]
2018. Ecological vs. military invasions: Reasoning metaphorically about cancer. Researching and Applying Metaphor Conference. Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong. June. [with Eve Sweetser] [abstract]
2018. Just and scale structure. West Coast Conference on Formal Linguistics. UCLA, Los Angeles. April. [with Rob Truswell] [poster] [abstract]
2017. Getting the Gist of Just Through a Scalar Analysis. Canadian Linguistics Association Conference. University of Toronto, Toronto. May. [with Rob Truswell]
Talks & Guest Lectures
2022. Moving while speaking. LINGUIS 3: Linguistic Diversity, guest lecture. University of California, Berkeley. April.
2022. By the way, did you know digression is multimodal. Syntax & Semantics Circle, invited speaker. University of California, Berkeley. April.
2022. Metaphoric reasoning in society. COGSCI 1: Introduction to Cognitive Science, guest lecture. University of California, Berkeley. March.
2021. Shaping conversation through gesture. Linguistics Department talk series, invited speaker. Western Washington University, WA. October.
2021. The shape of discourse. LINGUIS C105: Cognitive Linguistics, guest lecture. University of California, Berkeley. April
2021. The power of frames. LINGUIS C105: Cognitive Linguistics, guest lecture. University of California, Berkeley. February.
2019. Gesture space as interaction space: the spatial separation of topics in discourse. LINGUIS 106: Metaphor, guest lecture. University of California, Berkeley. November.
2018. Locative inversion without inversion. SMircle, invited speaker. Stanford University, Stanford, CA. December.
2018. The Problem of Locative inversion in English. Syntax seminar, invited speaker. McGill University, Montreal, Canada. March.
Teaching
2022, Fall. Linguistics 187: Writing as Framing. Co-Instructor with Professor Eve Sweetser. University of California, Berkeley.
2022, Summer. Linguistics 125: Gesture, Cognition, and Culture. Main Instructor. University of California, Berkeley.
2022, Spring. Cognitive Science 1: Introduction to Cognitive Science. Graduate Student Instructor. Professor: Paul Li. University of California, Berkeley.
2021, Spring. Linguistics C105: Cognitive Linguistics. Graduate Student Instructor. Professor: Eve Sweetser. University of California, Berkeley.
2020, Spring. Linguistics 120: Syntax. Graduate Student Instructor. Professor: Peter Jenks. University of California, Berkeley.
2019, Fall. Linguistics 106: Metaphor. Graduate Student Instructor. Professor: Eve Sweetser. University of California, Berkeley.
2019, Summer. Linguistics C105: Cognitive Linguistics. Main Instructor. University of California, Berkeley. [syllabus]
2019, Spring. Linguistics C105: Cognitive Linguistics. Graduate Student Instructor. Professor: Eve Sweetser. University of California, Berkeley.
2018, Fall. Linguistics 100: Introduction to Linguistic Science. Graduate Student Instructor. Professor: Peter Jenks. University of California, Berkeley.
2016, Summer. ESL Instruction. Teacher and personal tutor. Mackenzie School of English, Edinburgh, UK.
Service
Peer review
2022. Article Reviewer. Linguistics Vanguard: A Multimodal Journal for the Language Sciences.
2022. Abstract Reviewer. International Society for Gesture Studies Conference. Loyala University, Chicago.
2018. Abstract Reviewer. The 44th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. University of California, Berkeley.
Conference organization
2022. Panel chair. War and Conflict panel at Researching and Applying Metaphor 15. University of Białystok, Poland & Online.
2018. Volunteer. The 44th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. University of California, Berkeley. February 9-11.
2016. Volunteer. Sinn und Bedeutung. University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK. September 4-6.
Other
2022. Faculty representative. University of California, Berkeley.
2019-2022. Union Steward, UAW2865. University of California, Berkeley.
2019-2020. Co-organizer. Syntax & Semantics Circle. University of California, Berkeley.