{"pk":24558,"title":"Kinetic elements in genuflexion correlate with the degree of power relations in societal strata: The CONTROL IS UP metaphor in medieval miniatures","subtitle":null,"abstract":"The CONTROL IS UP metaphor is an embodied cognitive mechanism that helps western speakers reason about power relations in terms of vertical spatial organization, This paper explores its multimodal elaboration in visual manifestations of pyramidal structured arrangements and kinetic practices such as genuflexion in medieval miniatures in order to (i) demonstrate the role of multimodal representations of metaphors in reasoning, (ii) unveil power relationships between different societal strata.\n34 miniatures (12th ct. Liber feudorum maior) were analised with the ‚Äúmultimodal genuflexion test‚Äù to describe and measure (CAD-software) distances between kinetic elements (facial/manual gestures, postures).\nResults indicate that (i) power relations are not just vertically represented (kneeling & bowing), physical distance between characters and position of hands are crucial, (ii) there is a significant positive correlation [U = 61,119; p = 0.003] between the power figure and the degree of ‚Äúbody bending‚Äù (bowing, kneeling) and hand distance.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Linguistics; Sociology; Cognitive Humanities; Embodied Cognition; Representation; Semantics; Discourse Analysis; Gesture analysis; Qualitative Analysis; Statistics"}],"section":"Abstracts","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3pf31111","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Iraide","middle_name":"","last_name":"Ibarretxe Antuñano","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Zaragoza","department":""},{"first_name":"Andrea","middle_name":"","last_name":"Ariño Bizarro","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Zaragoza","department":""},{"first_name":"David Moret","middle_name":"","last_name":"Oliver","name_suffix":"","institution":"Real Estate Developer","department":""},{"first_name":"María Teresa","middle_name":"","last_name":"Moret-Oliver","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Zaragoza","department":""},{"first_name":"Guillermo","middle_name":"","last_name":"Tomàs Faci","name_suffix":"","institution":"Archivo","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2024-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24558/galley/21328/download/"},"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24558/galley/14155/download/"},{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/24558/galley/21328/download/"}]}