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Spring 2025

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Co-speech gestures accompanying use of conditionals and modals

Eve Sweetser - Professor, Linguistics

Status: Full- no new appr needed     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

It has long been known that co-speech gesture reveals aspects of on-line cognition which may not be revealed in speech itself. This project investigates the usage of gestures accompanying modals (e.g. CAN, MUST, MAY, SHOULD) and conditionals (IF-clauses), to see what understandings of modality and conditional relationships...

 Social Sciences

Integrated metaphor description project - metaphors for COVID and the pandemic, and metaphors for global climate change.

Eve Sweetser - Professor, Linguistics

Status: Check back for status     Weekly Hours: 3-5 hrs     Location: On Campus

This group is a multilingual project, examining discourse about COVID-19 and about global climate change, in North American English, French and Spanish varieties, as well as in French of France. (A side project on Mandarin metaphor is not funded, but is also ongoing.) We are using the Coronavirus corpus...

 Social Sciences

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