Re: [xmca] Analyses of gesture & speech

From: Michael A. Evans <mae who-is-at vt.edu>
Date: Thu May 03 2007 - 04:49:49 PDT

That sounds fun, Minati! I'll certainly share once we get something
together...thanks!

Michael~

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> From: minati panda <pandam66@gmail.com>
> Reply-To: "eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity" <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
> Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 22:45:52 -0700
> To: "eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity" <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
> Subject: Re: [xmca] Analyses of gesture & speech
> 
> Hi Michael,
> I would like to know more about your work. I work on folk mathematics.
> Currently, I am working with Mike on folk games where we are using both
> discourse analysis and semiotic  analysis. Will be happy to read more about
> your work/querries.
> Minati
> 
> 
> On 5/2/07, Michael A. Evans <mae@vt.edu> wrote:
>> 
>> Wow, Jay - this is wonderful stuff! Once a draft paper gets its legs later
>> in the summer, I'd be happy to share with the list (for those who might be
>> interested in this type analysis as well)...
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Michael~
>> --
>> ____________________________________
>> Michael A. Evans
>> Assistant Professor
>> Instructional Design & Technology Program
>> School of Education
>> Virginia Tech
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> From: Jay Lemke <jaylemke@umich.edu>
>>> Reply-To: "eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity" <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
>>> Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 21:33:17 -0400
>>> To: "eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity" <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
>>> Subject: Re: [xmca] Analyses of gesture & speech
>>> 
>>> 
>>> You have already been given some good leads in this area. In general,
>>> multimodal semiotic analysis, which incorporates discourse analysis
>>> as one component, is widely recognized as the next step in the
>>> evolution of DA, which was never intended to ignore activity and the
>>> context of situation, but until fairly recently there have not been
>>> analyses of visual images, gesture and movment, music, etc. that were
>>> both "semantically aware", i.e. linked to meaning, and compatible
>>> enough with linguistic analysis of meaning to be combined.
>>> 
>>> Some of the early pioneers of linguistic DA, like Gunther Kress and
>>> Theo van Leeuwen, write mainly about multimodal or multimedia
>>> analysis today. Paul Thibault and Anthony Baldry have developed
>>> systems for multimedia corpus analysis and multimodal transcription
>>> based on the principles of the earlier linguistic discourse analysis.
>>> There is a conference on linguistic DA and multimodal analysis in
>>> Helsinki in July (google along with the organizer, Eija Ventola), was
>>> a broader one on multimodality last year in Pavia, Italty (google
>>> with Anthony Baldry, TICOM) which will issue a volume this year. Adam
>>> Kendon, another pioneer of gesture analysis, spoke at that one (so
>>> did I), and his work for some time now has integrated gesture
>>> analysis with the broader situational and activity context.
>>> 
>>> On my website you can see the syllabus for a course I did last year
>>> on video and multimedia analysis, and some earlier versions of it
>>> that showed the integration with discourse analysis (but it's too
>>> much for one semester). Go to homepage, then Student's Entrance to
>>> see course information.
>>> 
>>> Good luck!
>>> 
>>> JAY.
>>> www.umich.edu/~jaylemke
>>> 
>>>> Wanted to thank everyone who forwarded articles, links, and tips...this
>> will
>>>> be extremely useful as we analyze video data over the summer months...
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Michael~
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>>>> Michael A. Evans
>>>> Assistant Professor
>>>> Instructional Design & Technology Program
>>>> School of Education
>>>> Virginia Tech
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>>  From: Carol Macdonald <carolmacdon@gmail.com>
>>>>>  Reply-To: "eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity" <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
>>>>>  Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 08:18:26 +0200
>>>>>  To: "eXtended Mind, Culture, Activity" <xmca@weber.ucsd.edu>
>>>>>  Subject: Re: [xmca] Analyses of gesture & speech
>>>>> 
>>>>>  I think it should not be too difficult (cf all the helpful comments
>> below).
>>>>>  Capture all your data on  a godd audio video, watching the number
>> count.
>>>>>  Then using perhaps Sinclair and Coultard analyse the language ( which
>> in
>>>>> any
>>>>>  case overlaps beween speakers), then go through it again, this time
>>>>> matching
>>>>>  the gestures to thre language.  Once you have paired language and
>> gesture,
>>>>>  then you have to work out why this should be working together: this
>> is
>>>>>  monstrously time-consuming, but it will get you where you want to go.
>>>>>  Carol
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>  On 29/04/07, Wolff-Michael Roth <mroth@uvic.ca> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>  You may find my review useful for seeing what has been published in
>>>>>>  the different disciplines referred to on the list:
>>>>>>  Roth, W.-M. (2002). Gestures: Their role in teaching and learning.
>>>>>>  Review of Educational Research, 71, 365-392.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>  also, in
>>>>>>  Roth, W.-M., & Lee, Y. J. (2004). Interpreting unfamiliar graphs: A
>>>>>>  generative, activity-theoretic model. Educational Studies in
>>>>>>  Mathematics, 57, 265-290.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>  we cover mathematical cognition, gestures, and CHAT.
>>>>>>  Hope this helps,
>>>>>>  Michael
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>  On 28-Apr-07, at 8:40 AM, Michael A. Evans wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>  Dear All,
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>  I was hoping you could point me to resources that critique discourse
>>>>>>  analysis as an overly linguistic approach to interaction and meaning
>>>>>>  making...my request is based on a desire to ground analysis of video
>>>>>>  data of
>>>>>>  children using manipulatives (both physical and graphically-based)
>> in
>>>>>>  collaborative efforts...what I want to capture is not only the
>> speech
>>>>>>  but
>>>>>>  also gesture of primary students as they try to make sense of basic
>>>>>>  geometric concepts and principles using manipulatives (tangrams,
>>>>>> pentominoes, geoboards, etc)...I'm searching for both philosophical
>>>>>>  (Vygotsky, Dewey, Pierce, Mead) and methodological references that
>>>>>>  emphasize
>>>>>>  the need to examine gesture and speech simultaneously...
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>  As for the latter, I've recently been working with David McNeill and
>> his
>>>>>>  group at the U. of Chicago (http://mcneilllab.uchicago.edu/), but
>> was
>>>>>>  hoping
>>>>>>  I could get more leads from the group...
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>  Thanks!
>>>>>>  Michael~
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>>>>>>  Michael A. Evans
>>>>>>  Assistant Professor
>>>>>>  Instructional Design & Technology Program
>>>>>>  School of Education
>>>>>>  Virginia Tech
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