scholarly journals The mouth s of others: The linguistic performance of race in Bermuda

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 223-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosemary Hall
Keyword(s):  
Linguistic Performance ◽  
Performance Of Race

The Production of Gesture and Speech by People With Aphasia: Influence of Communicative Constraints

2019 ◽  
Vol 62 (12) ◽  
pp. 4417-4432 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carola de Beer ◽  
Jan P. de Ruiter ◽  
Martina Hielscher-Fastabend ◽  
Katharina Hogrefe
Keyword(s):  
Language Impairment ◽  
Daily Living ◽  
Linguistic Performance ◽  
Task Effects ◽  
Communicative Abilities ◽  
Gesture Production ◽  
And Task ◽  
Group Effects

Purpose People with aphasia (PWA) use different kinds of gesture spontaneously when they communicate. Although there is evidence that the nature of the communicative task influences the linguistic performance of PWA, so far little is known about the influence of the communicative task on the production of gestures by PWA. We aimed to investigate the influence of varying communicative constraints on the production of gesture and spoken expression by PWA in comparison to persons without language impairment. Method Twenty-six PWA with varying aphasia severities and 26 control participants (CP) without language impairment participated in the study. Spoken expression and gesture production were investigated in 2 different tasks: (a) spontaneous conversation about topics of daily living and (b) a cartoon narration task, that is, retellings of short cartoon clips. The frequencies of words and gestures as well as of different gesture types produced by the participants were analyzed and tested for potential effects of group and task. Results Main results for task effects revealed that PWA and CP used more iconic gestures and pantomimes in the cartoon narration task than in spontaneous conversation. Metaphoric gestures, deictic gestures, number gestures, and emblems were more frequently used in spontaneous conversation than in cartoon narrations by both participant groups. Group effects show that, in both tasks, PWA's gesture-to-word ratios were higher than those for the CP. Furthermore, PWA produced more interactive gestures than the CP in both tasks, as well as more number gestures and pantomimes in spontaneous conversation. Conclusions The current results suggest that PWA use gestures to compensate for their verbal limitations under varying communicative constraints. The properties of the communicative task influence the use of different gesture types in people with and without aphasia. Thus, the influence of communicative constraints needs to be considered when assessing PWA's multimodal communicative abilities.

A Longitudinal Posthumous Study of Letter Writing in a Late Elderly Case

2015 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-33
Author(s):  
Angel Ball ◽  
Jean Neils-Strunjas ◽  
Kate Krival
Keyword(s):  
Longitudinal Study ◽  
Elderly Woman ◽  
Semantic Content ◽  
Cognitive Status ◽  
Letter Writing ◽  
Linguistic Performance ◽  
Errors Analysis ◽  
Normal Status

This study is a posthumous longitudinal study of consecutive letters written by an elderly woman from age 89 to 93. Findings reveal a consistent linguistic performance during the first 3 years, supporting “normal” status for late elderly writing. She produced clearly written cursive form, intact semantic content, and minimal spelling and stroke errors. A decline in writing was observed in the last 6–9 months of the study and an analysis revealed production of clausal fragmentation, decreasing semantic clarity, and a higher frequency of spelling, semantic, and stroke errors. Analysis of writing samples can be a valuable tool in documenting a change in cognitive status differentiated from normal late aging.

scholarly journals Studying individual differences in the social environment to better understand language learning and processing

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (s1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shiri Lev-Ari
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
Individual Differences ◽  
Second Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Acquisition ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Social Environment ◽  
Native Speakers ◽  
Linguistic Performance ◽  
The Social

AbstractPeople learn language from their social environment. Therefore, individual differences in the input that their social environment provides could influence their linguistic performance. Nevertheless, investigation of the role of individual differences in input on performance has been mostly restricted to first and second language acquisition. In this paper I argue that individual differences in input can influence linguistic performance even in adult native speakers. Specifically, differences in input can affect performance by influencing people’s knowledgebase, by modulating their processing manner, and by shaping expectations. Therefore, studying the role that individual differences in input play can improve our understanding of how language is learned, processed and represented.

scholarly journals Pengenalan Ras Berdasarkan Hidung Dan Mulut Menggunakan Gray Level Co-Occurrence Matrix

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 729
Author(s):  
Ema Rachmawati ◽  
Nur Azizah Agustina ◽  
Febryanti Sthevanie
Keyword(s):  
Random Forest ◽  
System Performance ◽  
Experimental Results ◽  
Gray Level ◽  
The Face ◽  
Combined Features ◽  
Occurrence Matrix ◽  
Large Groups ◽  
Performance Of Race

<p class="Abstract">Ras dapat digunakan untuk mengkategorikan manusia dalam populasi atau kelompok besar. Oleh karena itu, pengenalan ras dapat berguna untuk mempermudah dalam mengidentifikasi seseorang dan membantu dalam mempersempit lingkup pencarian. Penggunaan wajah sebagai dasar pengenalan ras mengarahkan penelitian pada identifikasi penggunaan bagian wajah yang berpengaruh signifikan terhadap kinerja pengenalan ras. Pada penelitian ini bagian wajah berupa hidung dan mulut diidentifikasi untuk digunakan sebagai dasar pengenalan ras Mongoloid, Kaukasoid, dan Negroid. Ciri <em>Gray Level Co-occurrence Matrix</em> (GLCM) diekstrak dari bagian hidung dan mulut untuk selanjutnya diklasifikasi menggunakan Random Forest. Hasil eksperimen menunjukkan bahwa penggunaan ciri gabungan dari hidung dan mulut mampu menghasilkan kinerja sistem yang paling baik jika dibandingkan penggunaan hidung atau mulut saja.</p><p class="Abstract"> </p><p class="Abstract"><strong><em>Abst</em></strong><strong><em>r</em></strong><strong><em>act</em></strong></p><p align="center"><em>Race can be used to categorize humans in populations or large groups. Therefore, racial recognition can be useful to make it easier to identify a person and help narrow the scope of the search. The use of faces as a basis for race recognition directs research on identifying the use of facial parts that significantly influence the performance of race recognition. In this study, the face parts of the nose and mouth were identified to be used as a basis for the recognition of the Mongoloid, Caucasoid, and Negroid races. The Gray Level Co-occurrence Matrix (GLCM) feature is extracted from the nose and mouth to be classified using Random Forest. The experimental results show that the use of combined features of the nose and mouth is able to produce the best system performance compared to the use of the nose or mouth only.</em></p><p class="Abstract"> </p>

scholarly journals Staging Intersectionality

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 126-138
Author(s):  
John-Paul Zaccarini
Keyword(s):  
White Male ◽  
Music Video ◽  
Male Gaze ◽  
White Gaze ◽  
Brown Bodies ◽  
Performance Of Race

This essay follows the making of a queer of colour aesthetic space in the form of a music video entitled Brother, within a largely homogenous white University. The video places white heteronormativity on the periphery whilst intersectional brown bodies take the centre. It inverts racist and fetishistic tropes in music video culture and reverses the white male gaze. The making of the video created a small brown island in a sea of white as a vision of a future brown space protected from the ubiquitous, ambivalently festishizing white gaze; a gaze that projects its own narrative onto bodies of colour. It puts forward a thesis of racial agency, whereby the performance of “race” is scripted by the person of colour and not provoked by the construct of whiteness.

A Dynamical, Self-Organized View of the Context for Linguistic Performance

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-86
Author(s):  
Raymond W. Gibbs, Jr.
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Human Cognition ◽  
Linguistic Processing ◽  
Linguistic Performance ◽  
Self Organized ◽  
Temporal Process ◽  
The World ◽  
Organizational View

Most everyone agrees that context is critical to the pragmatic interpretation of speakers’ utterances. But the enduring debate within cognitive science concerns when context has its influence in shaping people’s interpretations of what speakers imply by what they say. Some scholars maintain that context is only referred to after some initial linguistic analysis of an utterance has been performed, with other scholars arguing that context is present at all stages of immediate linguistic processing. Empirical research on this debate is, in my view, hopelessly deadlocked. My goal in this article is to advance a framework for thinking about the context for linguistic performance that conceives of human cognition and language use in terms of dynamical, self-organized processes. A self-organizational view of the context for linguistic performance demands that we acknowledge the multiple, interacting constraints which create, or soft-assemble, any specific moment of pragmatic experience. Pragmatic action and understanding is not producing or recovering a “meaning” but a continuously unfolding temporal process of the person adapting and orienting to the world. I discuss the implications of this view for the study of pragmatic meaning in discourse.

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