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Constraints on communicating the order of events in stories through pantomime

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dc.contributor.author Sibierska, Marta
dc.contributor.author Żywiczyński, Przemysław
dc.contributor.author Zlatev, Jordan
dc.contributor.author van de Weijer, Joost
dc.contributor.author Boruta-Żywiczyński, Monika
dc.date.accessioned 2023-08-21T12:58:36Z
dc.date.available 2023-08-21T12:58:36Z
dc.date.issued 2023-08-21
dc.identifier.other https://doi.org/10.1093/jole/lzad008
dc.identifier.uri http://repozytorium.umk.pl/handle/item/6897
dc.description.abstract Pantomime is a means of bodily visual communication that is based on iconic gestures that are not fully conventional. It has become a key element in many models of language evolution and a strong candidate for the original human-specific communicative system (Zlatev et al. 2020). Although pantomime affords successful communication in many contexts, it has some semiotic limitations. In this study, we looked at one of them, connected with communicating the order of events in stories. We assumed that pantomime is well-suited for communicating simple stories, where events are arranged in chronological order, and less so for communicating complex stories, where events are arranged in a non-chronological order. To test this assumption, we designed a semiotic game in which participants took turns as directors and matchers. The task of the directors was to mime a story in one of two conditions: chronological or non-chronological; the task of the matchers was to interpret what was mimed. The results showed that the chronological condition was easier for the participants. In the non-chronological condition, we observed that initially, poor communicative success improved as the participants started to use various markers of event order. The results of our study provide insight into the early stages of conventionalisation in bodily visual communication, a potential first step towards protolanguage.
dc.description.sponsorship Narodowe Centrum Nauki, grant: UMO-2017/27/B/HS2/00642 Narodowe Centrum Wymiany Akademickiej, grant: PPN/BEK/2020/1/00319/U/00001
dc.language.iso eng
dc.subject stories
dc.subject gesture
dc.subject pantomime
dc.subject mimesis
dc.subject iconicity
dc.subject order of events
dc.subject semiotic game
dc.subject language evolution
dc.title Constraints on communicating the order of events in stories through pantomime
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article


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