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~
> >> --
> >> ____________________________________
> >> 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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> >>>> Assistant Professor
> >>>> Instructional Design & Technology Program
> >>>> School of Education
> >>>> Virginia Tech
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