I consider language as a fundamentally embodied and multimodal system, in which communicators take advantage of different semiotic modes in order to convey intended messages.
The Interaction Space
The "Interaction Space" is the physical space between discourse participants, defined by the participants' orientations, and managed through gesture.
Related work:
2023. Gesture space ambiguity as conceptual integration. 16th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference. HHU Dusseldorf, Germany. [abstract, slides]
2022. The Interaction Space: Considering speaker-hearer location in co-speech gesture analysis and annotation. In Duffy, V.G. (Ed.), Digital Human Modeling and Applications in Health, Safety, Ergonomics and Risk Management: Anthropometry, Human Behavior, and Communication (pp. 243–262). Springer, Cham. [paper]
Iconicity in discourse relations
Embodying an argument
Related work:
2022. Gesturing toward the future: three metaphoric gestures for change in motivational talks. The Sixth International Conference on Ecolinguistics. University of Graz, Austria. [abstract; slides]
2021. Constructing metaphors in space: a microanalysis of political argumentation. Researching and Applying Metaphor Conference 14. Vilnius University, Lithuania. [abstract; slides]