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Pantomime in language evolution: Expressive potential and structural characteristics of bodily mimetic acts.

2017/27/B/HS2/00642

Keywords:

evolution of language bodily mimesis

Descriptors:

  • HS2_15: Other related subjects
  • HS1_6: Nature of human mind (incl. mind's evolution, bio-psychological conditions of cognition, artificial intelligence)

Panel:

HS2 - Culture and cultural production: literary theory and comparative literature, history of literature, linguistics, library science, cultural studies, arts, architecture

Host institution :

Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika w Toruniu, Wydział Humanistyczny

woj. kujawsko-pomorskie

Other projects carried out by the institution 

Principal investigator (from the host institution):

dr hab. Przemysław Żywiczyński 

Number of co-investigators in the project: 5

Call: OPUS 14 - announced on 2017-09-15

Amount awarded: 469 088 PLN

Project start date (Y-m-d): 2018-06-29

Project end date (Y-m-d): 2023-06-28

Project duration:: 60 months (the same as in the proposal)

Project status: Project settled

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Equipment purchased [PL]

  1. Kinect (500 PLN)
  2. Laptop 2w1 z funkcją tabletu.
  3. Rokoko Smartsuit Pro.
  4. Komputer (wysokiej klasy) (7 000 PLN)
  5. Oprogramowanie do zarządzania projektem (3 000 PLN)
  6. Tablety (2 szt.) (2 000 PLN)

Information in the final report

  • Publication in academic press/journals (11)
  • Book publications / chapters in book publications (5)
  1. Evolution of pantomime in dyadic interaction. A motion- capture study.
    Authors:
    Marek Placiński, Przemysław Żywiczyński, Theresa Matzinger, Marta Sibierska, Monika Boruta-Żywiczyńska, Anna Szala, Sławomir Wacewicz
    Academic press:
    Journal of Language Evolution (rok: 2023, tom: brak, strony: brak), Wydawca: Oxford University Press
    Status:
    Accepted for publication
  2. Biological Evolution, Cultural Evolution and the Evolution of Language. Review of Daniel Dennett's From Bacteria to Bach and Back
    Authors:
    Przemysław Żywiczyński
    Academic press:
    Theoria et Historia Scientiarum (rok: 2019, tom: 16, strony: 169-191), Wydawca: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Mikołaja Kopernika
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.12775/ths.2019.010 - link to the publication
  3. Language and its limits: meaning, reference and the ineffable in Buddhist philosophy
    Authors:
    Johan Blomberg, Przemysław Żywiczyński
    Academic press:
    TOPOI. An International Review of Philosophy (rok: 2022, tom: 41, strony: 483–496), Wydawca: Springer
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1007/s11245-021-09756-z - link to the publication
  4. Pantomime as the original human-specific semiotic system
    Authors:
    Jordan Zlatev, Przemysław Żywiczyński, Sławomir Wacewicz
    Academic press:
    Journal of Language Evolution Studies (rok: 2020, tom: 5(2), strony: 156-174), Wydawca: Oxford University Press
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1093/jole/lzaa006 - link to the publication
  5. Pantomimic fossils in modern human communication
    Authors:
    Przemysław Żywiczyński, Sławomir Wacewicz, Casey Lister
    Academic press:
    Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B (rok: 2021, tom: 376, strony: 45305), Wydawca: Royal Society
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1098/rstb.2020.0204 - link to the publication
  6. What's in a mime? An exploratory analysis of predictors of communicative success of pantomime
    Authors:
    Marta Sibierska, Monika Boruta-Żywiczyńska, Przemyslaw Żywiczyński, Sławomir Wacewicz
    Academic press:
    Interaction Studies (rok: 2022, tom: 0,959722222222222, strony: 289-321), Wydawca: John Benjamins
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1075/is.22002.sib - link to the publication
  7. Praxis, Demonstration and Pantomime: A Motion Capture Investigation of Differences in Action Performances
    Authors:
    Przemysław Żywiczyński, Marek Placiński, Sławomir Wacewicz, Marta Sibierska, Monika Boruta-Żywiczyńska, Michał Meina, Peter Gärdenfors
    Academic press:
    Language and Cognition (rok: 2023, tom: brak, strony: brak), Wydawca: Cambridge University Press
    Status:
    Submitted
  8. Evolution of conventional communication. A cross-cultural study of pantomimic reenactments of transitive events
    Authors:
    Przemysław Żywiczyński, Marta Sibierska, Sławomir Wacewicz, Joost van de Weijer, Francesco Ferretti, Ines Adornetti, Alessandra Chiera, Valentina Deriu
    Academic press:
    Language and Communication (rok: 2021, tom: 80, strony: 191-203), Wydawca: Elsevier
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1016/j.langcom.2021.07.002 - link to the publication
  9. Constraints on communicating the order of events in stories through pantomime
    Authors:
    Marta Sibierska, Przemysław Żywiczyński, Jordan Zlatev, Joost van de Weijer, Monika Boruta-Żywiczyńska
    Academic press:
    Journal of Language Evolution (rok: 2023, tom: XX, strony: 45306), Wydawca: Oxford University Press
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1093/jole/lzad008 - link to the publication
  10. From Body to Language: Gestural and Pantomimic Scenarios of Language Origin in the Enlightenment
    Authors:
    Przemysław Żywiczyński, Sławomir Wacewicz
    Academic press:
    TOPOI. An International Review of Philosophy (rok: 2022, tom: 41, strony: 539–549), Wydawca: Springer
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1007/s11245-021-09791-w - link to the publication
  11. Pause Length and Differences in Cognitive State Attribution in Native and Non-Native Speakers
    Authors:
    Theresa Matzinger, Michael Pleyer, Przemysław Żywiczyński
    Academic press:
    Languages (rok: 2023, tom: 26(8), strony: 45315), Wydawca: MDPI
    Status:
    Published
  1. Two types of bodily-mimetic communication: distinct design specifications and evolutionary trajectories
    Authors:
    Sławomir Wacewicz & Przemysław Żywiczyński
    Book:
    Perspectives on pantomime: evolution, development, interaction (rok: 2023, ), Wydawca: John Benjamins
    Status:
    Submitted
  2. Pantomimic Conceptions of Language Origins
    Authors:
    Sławomir Wacewicz, Przemysław Żywiczyński
    Book:
    Oxford Handbook of Human Symbolic Evolution (rok: 2021, tom: 1, strony: 11689), Wydawca: Oxford University Press
    Status:
    Published
  3. Can pantomime narrate? A cognitive semiotic approach
    Authors:
    Jordan Zlatev, Marta Sibierska, Przemysław Żywiczyński, Joost van de Weijer & Monika Boruta-Żywiczyńska
    Book:
    Perspectives on pantomime: evolution, development, interaction (rok: 2023, ), Wydawca: John Benjamins
    Status:
    Submitted
  4. Publikacja książkowa: patrz tytuł książki
    Authors:
    Przemysław Żywiczyński, Johan Blomberg, Monika Boruta-Żywiczyński (red.)
    Book:
    Perspectives on pantomime: evolution, development, interaction (rok: 2023, ), Wydawca: John Benjamins
    Status:
    Submitted
  5. Hipotezy powstania języka a problem prozodii
    Authors:
    Przemysław Żywiczyński
    Book:
    Prozodia: przyswajanie, badanie, zaburzenia, terapia (rok: 2020, tom: Wydanie I, strony: 38-64), Wydawca: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego; Harmonia Universalis
    Status:
    Published