What’s in a mime?

IF 0.9 4区心理学 Q3 COMMUNICATION

Interaction Studies Pub Date : 2022-12-31 DOI:10.1075/is.22002.sib

Marta Sibierska, Monika Boruta-Żywiczyńska, Przemysław Żywiczyński, Sławomir Wacewicz

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Abstract

Several lines of research within developmental psychology, experimental semiotics and language origins studies have recently converged in their interest in pantomime as a system of bodily communication distinct from both language (spoken or signed) and nonlinguistic gesticulation. These approaches underscore the effectiveness of pantomime, which despite lack of semiotic conventions is capable of communicating complex meanings. However, very little research is available on the structural underpinnings of this effectiveness, that is, the specific properties of pantomime that determine its communicative success. To help fill in this gap, we conducted an exploratory rating study aimed at identifying those properties of pantomime that facilitate its understanding. We analysed an existing corpus of 602 recordings of whole-body re-enactments of short transitive events, coding each of them for 6 properties, and found out that the presence of salient elements (conspicuous objects in a specific semantic space), image mapping (representing the physical orientation of the object), and gender markers (distinguishing between the represented characters) increased the guessability of pantomimes.

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哑剧里有什么？

发展心理学、实验符号学和语言起源研究中的几条研究线最近对哑剧的兴趣有所集中，哑剧是一种不同于语言（口语或手语）和非语言手势的身体交流系统。这些方法强调了哑剧的有效性，尽管缺乏符号学惯例，哑剧仍能传达复杂的含义。然而，关于这种有效性的结构基础，也就是说，决定其交际成功的哑剧的具体特性，却很少有研究。为了填补这一空白，我们进行了一项探索性的评级研究，旨在确定哑剧的那些有助于理解的特性。我们分析了现有的602个短及物事件全身再现的录音语料库，对每个录音进行了6个属性的编码，发现显著元素（特定语义空间中的显著对象）的存在、图像映射（表示对象的物理方向）、，性别标记（区分所代表的角色）增加了哑剧的猜测能力。

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Interaction Studies Multiple-

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3.30

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6.70%

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期刊介绍： This international peer-reviewed journal aims to advance knowledge in the growing and strongly interdisciplinary area of Interaction Studies in biological and artificial systems. Understanding social behaviour and communication in biological and artificial systems requires knowledge of evolutionary, developmental and neurobiological aspects of social behaviour and communication; the embodied nature of interactions; origins and characteristics of social and narrative intelligence; perception, action and communication in the context of dynamic and social environments; social learning.