Hofstetter will present at the 2019 COACT, Apr.24-26, Oulu. What goes up must come down: Shifting in and out of falls in rock climbing In this paper, I will examine how rock climbers manage falling events or ‘falls’: instances where a climber falls off the climbing wall, and are ‘caught’ by their partners. Via these …
Freiburg Colloquium: Keevallik – Transmitting experience
Keevallik will be presenting an invited talk at the Freiburg Colloquium on Transferring embodied knowledge, Feb. 2019. Transmitting experience of body movements through voice One of the biggest challenges in instructing other bodies is conveying how performing a skill should be felt from “the inside” of the body. Verbal devices often fall short, even though …
Continue reading "Freiburg Colloquium: Keevallik – Transmitting experience"
NORDISCO 2018: Keevallik – Emergent syntax
Keevallik presented a plenary talk at NORDISCO 2018. Emergent syntax in the embodied world Language is but one resource of sense-making and action formation. As interacting human beings we cannot merely rely on our earlier experiences of lexicon and grammar, because this abstracted knowledge does not in itself guarantee mutual understanding here and now. A …
Continue reading "NORDISCO 2018: Keevallik – Emergent syntax"
Non-lexical vocalizations 