{"pk":26198,"title":"From embodied metaphors to metaphoric gestures","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Humans turn abstract referents and discourse structuresinto gesture using metaphors. The semantic relation be-tween abstract communicative intentions and their phys-ical realization in gesture is a question that has not beenfully addressed. Our hypothesis is that a limited set ofprimary metaphors and image schemas underlies a widerange of gestures. Our analysis of a video corpus sup-ports this view: over 90% of the gestures in the corpus arestructured by image schemas via a limited set of primarymetaphors. This analysis informs the extension of a com-putational model that grounds various communicative in-tentions to a physical, embodied context, using those pri-mary metaphors and image schemas. This model is usedto generate gesture performances for virtual characters.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"embodied cognition; gesture; metaphor;nonverbal behavior; human-computer interaction"}],"section":"Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/4w03x8cs","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Margot","middle_name":"","last_name":"Lhommet","name_suffix":"","institution":"Northeastern University","department":""},{"first_name":"Stacy","middle_name":"","last_name":"Marsella","name_suffix":"","institution":"Northeastern University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2016-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/26198/galley/15834/download/"}]}