Interaction and Iconicity in the Evolution of Language
Edited by Stefan Hartmann, Michael Pleyer, James Winters and Jordan Zlatev
Special issue of Interaction Studies 18:3 (2017) v, 173 pp.
Michael Pleyer
List of John Benjamins publications in which Michael Pleyer is involved.
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2024 A cross-cultural approach to cognitive state attribution based on inter-turn speech pauses Interaction Studies 25:3, pp. 393–434 | Article
This study explores how inter-turn speech pauses influence the perception of cognitive states such as knowledge, confidence, and willingness to grant requests in conversational settings. Longer pauses are typically associated with lower competence and willingness, but Matzinger et al. (2023)… read more
2020 Construction grammar for monkeys? Animal communication and its implications for language evolution in the light of usage-based linguistic theory Tracking Language Evolution as an Interdisciplinary, Cross-Theoretical Enterprise, Gaeta, Livio (ed.), pp. 153–194 | Article
In recent years, multiple researchers working on the evolution of language have put forward the idea that the theoretical framework of usage-based approaches and Construction Grammar is highly suitable for modelling the emergence of human language from pre-linguistic or proto-linguistic… read more
2017 Interaction and iconicity in the evolution of language: Introduction to the special issue Interaction and Iconicity in the Evolution of Language, Hartmann, Stefan, Michael Pleyer, James Winters and Jordan Zlatev (eds.), pp. 303–313 | Introduction
2014 Chapter 3. Construal and comics: The multimodal autobiography of Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home Cognitive Grammar in Literature, Harrison, Chloe, Louise Nuttall, Peter Stockwell and Wenjuan Yuan (eds.), pp. 35–52 | Article