Geert Brône
Biographic Data
| ID | 970554 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Geert Brône |
| GIVEN NAMES | Geert |
| FAMILY NAME | Brône |
| SIGNATURE | BRÔNE G |
| AFFILIATIONS | KU Leuven |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4725-7933 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 94 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Close-recurrence analysis
A foundational aspect of social interaction is the phenomenon of joint attention, typically defined as a shared focus between two or more interlocutors on a particular subject, object or event. While joint attention research in the fields of Cognitive Linguistics and psycholinguistics has predominantly relied on task-based interactions in static environments, studies in the tradition of Interactional Linguistics and Conversation Analysis have foc…
Gesture alignment in teacher–student interaction
Introduction In this study, we explore the presence of gesture alignment in office hour consultations, a form of academic talk characterized by private face-to-face dialogues between a lecturer and a university student. Unlike classroom interactions, the topic of these consultations is initiated by the student. Our objectives were to describe the patterns of gesture alignment in these educational settings, to determine the direction of the copied…
Interactional functions of raised eyebrows by ironists and their addressees
Irony is not an exclusively verbal phenomenon: it may also be accompanied by bodily-visual cues such as facial expressions, head movements and gaze behaviour (e.g. de Vries et al., 2021). A well-known bodily-visual action related to irony is the use of raised eyebrows, with previous studies primarily focusing on ironists raising their eyebrows to signal an ironic intent, i.e. Tabacaru and Lemmens’ (2014) gestural trigger concept. This article bui…
Multimodal stance-taking in interaction—A systematic literature review
Stance-taking, the public act of positioning oneself toward objects, people or states of affairs, has been studied in many fields of research. Recently, its multimodal realization in interaction has received increasing attention. The current contribution aims to take stock of research on multimodal stance-taking so far, and to present possible avenues for future research. We systematically gathered and appraised 76 articles that investigate the i…
In your face? Exploring multimodal response patterns involving facial responses to verbal and gestural stance-taking expressions
Instructing embodied knowledge
In the introduction to the special issue on ‘Instructing embodied knowledge’, we present a general orientation into this growing field of research, providing the relevant background for the individual contributions. The starting point for the endeavor is the basic observation that practical knowledge or ‘knowing-how’ is typically of a procedural, implicit and embodied nature rather than explicit-conceptual. Given this specific nature, we highligh…
In other gestures
In this contribution, we investigate the transfer of embodied procedural knowledge in two cello master classes, zooming in on what we identify as speech-embedded nonverbal depictions — cases where meaning is communicated nonverbally, iconically, and without temporally co-occurring speech — an overlooked domain in the literature foregrounded by a critical reconceptualization of Clark’s (2016) framework of depicting. Examining such depictions in th…
Interpreters as laminated speakers
Unaddressed participants' gaze behavior in Flemish Sign Language interactions
Affiliation in interpreter-mediated therapeutic talk
The aim of this article is to explore how affiliation ( Stivers 2008 ) with the patient is displayed and interactionally achieved in the context of an interpreter-mediated therapeutic dialogue. More specifically, we focus on the interplay between affiliative listener responses – especially head nods – and gaze in this setting. Interpreter-mediated therapeutic talk is not only a setting that has received very little systematic scrutiny in the lite…
Gaze and overlap resolution in triadic interactions
On the role of gaze in the organization of turn-taking and sequence organization in interpreter-mediated dialogue
This paper contributes to the growing line of research that takes a multimodal approach in the study of interpreter-mediated dialogues. Drawing on insights from Conversation Analysis and multimodal analysis, we investigate how extended multi-unit turns unfold with interventions of an interpreter and, more specifically, what is the role of gaze in this process. The analysis is based on videos of interpreter-mediated dialogues (Dutch-Russian) recor…
Dual feedback in interpreter-mediated interactions
The shrug as marker of obviousness
This contribution focuses on the shrug as it is used in stance taking contexts in face-to-face conversations. The shrug qualifies as a ‘compound enactment’, in which prototypically different gestures are combined: “the eye-brows (which are being raised), the hands (which are turned so that the palms face up), the forearms (which may be lifted), and the shoulders (which are also raised). In addition, the head may be tilted” (Streeck 2009: 189. Ges…
Eye gaze and viewpoint in multimodal interaction management
In this paper, we present an embodiment perspective on viewpoint by exploring the role of eye gaze in face-to-face conversation, in relation to and interaction with other expressive modalities. More specifically, we look into gaze patterns, as well as gaze synchronization with speech, as instruments in the negotiation of participant roles in interaction. In order to obtain fine-grained information on the different modalities under scrutiny, we us…
Vers une analyse multimodale du sens. Perspectives constructionnelles sur la gestualité co-grammaticale
La présente contribution vise à mieux cerner le statut de la gestualité en grammaire. À cet effet sont fournies deux études de cas sur les gestes co-grammaticaux indexicaux et iconiques. L'idée centrale de cette grammaire multimodale est que mots et gestes, au sens large, appartenant à des canaux sémiotiques à première vue incompatibles, se doivent d'être intégrés dans une seule construction, fidèle à l'hypothèse cognitiviste que les construction…
Explaining interactive alignment
Towards a dialogic construction grammar
In this paper, we take a Construction Grammar approach to Du Bois' concept of resonance activation. We suggest that the structural mapping relations between juxtaposed utterances in discourse, described in terms of diagraphs in dialogic syntax, can acquire the status of ad hoc constructions or locally entrenched form-meaning pairings within the boundaries of an ongoing conversation. We argue that the local emergence of these ad hoc constructions …
Does framing work? An empirical study of Simplifying Models for sustainable food production
We investigate empirically whether framing in general, and the use of Simplifying Models as a framing tool in particular, has an effect on the way topics are cognitively construed. Existing studies on framing in linguistics have either been theoretical or descriptive. Going beyond such methodologically simple approaches, we use a more rigid test design involving the use of a control group, the construction of test conditions in which different Si…
Processing Deliberate Ambiguity in Newspaper Headlines
Two experiments investigated the processing and appreciation of double grounding, a form of intentional ambiguity often used in the construction of headlines. For example, in “Russia takes the froth off Carlsberg results,” the key element, “takes the froth off,” is significant both metaphorically, where it refers to the detrimental impact of Russia, and metonymically via a contextual link between the company Carlsberg and beer, its best-known pro…
Hyper- and misunderstanding in interactional humor
Introduction
Ever since the publication of Victor Raskin's seminal work on the
The cognitive mechanisms of adversarial humor
In this paper, we provide an in-depth cognitive analysis of a specific humor strategy we coin “trumping”, a multi-agent language game that revolves around the subversion of the linguistic forms of exchange. In particular, we illustrate how, in a conversational setting, agents can “reflect” and “distort” the linguistic-conceptual construal of each others' utterances. Because this reflection or parallelism in the trumping game can be situated on di…
Headlines and cartoons in the economic press
Assessing the SSTH and GTVH
Despite its strong cognitive orientation in recent years, humor research still has paid relatively little attention to the paradigm of Cognitive linguistics (CL), which in light of its dynamic view on cognitive and semantic aspects of language in use, seems to provide an adequate framework for the analysis of humor. With regard to the “cognitive construal” of human experience as one of the basic notions of CL, this paper describes for three types…
Hyper- and misunderstanding in interactional humor
The cognitive mechanisms of adversarial humor
In this paper, we provide an in-depth cognitive analysis of a specific humor strategy we coin “trumping”, a multi-agent language game that revolves around the subversion of the linguistic forms of exchange. In particular, we illustrate how, in a conversational setting, agents can “reflect” and “distort” the linguistic-conceptual construal of each others' utterances. Because this reflection or parallelism in the trumping game can be situated on di…
Gaze and overlap resolution in triadic interactions
Introduction
Ever since the publication of Victor Raskin's seminal work on the
Interpreters as laminated speakers
Explaining interactive alignment
Towards a dialogic construction grammar
In this paper, we take a Construction Grammar approach to Du Bois' concept of resonance activation. We suggest that the structural mapping relations between juxtaposed utterances in discourse, described in terms of diagraphs in dialogic syntax, can acquire the status of ad hoc constructions or locally entrenched form-meaning pairings within the boundaries of an ongoing conversation. We argue that the local emergence of these ad hoc constructions …
Affiliation in interpreter-mediated therapeutic talk
The aim of this article is to explore how affiliation ( Stivers 2008 ) with the patient is displayed and interactionally achieved in the context of an interpreter-mediated therapeutic dialogue. More specifically, we focus on the interplay between affiliative listener responses – especially head nods – and gaze in this setting. Interpreter-mediated therapeutic talk is not only a setting that has received very little systematic scrutiny in the lite…
Assessing the SSTH and GTVH
Despite its strong cognitive orientation in recent years, humor research still has paid relatively little attention to the paradigm of Cognitive linguistics (CL), which in light of its dynamic view on cognitive and semantic aspects of language in use, seems to provide an adequate framework for the analysis of humor. With regard to the “cognitive construal” of human experience as one of the basic notions of CL, this paper describes for three types…
Eye gaze and viewpoint in multimodal interaction management
In this paper, we present an embodiment perspective on viewpoint by exploring the role of eye gaze in face-to-face conversation, in relation to and interaction with other expressive modalities. More specifically, we look into gaze patterns, as well as gaze synchronization with speech, as instruments in the negotiation of participant roles in interaction. In order to obtain fine-grained information on the different modalities under scrutiny, we us…
Unaddressed participants' gaze behavior in Flemish Sign Language interactions
Vers une analyse multimodale du sens. Perspectives constructionnelles sur la gestualité co-grammaticale
La présente contribution vise à mieux cerner le statut de la gestualité en grammaire. À cet effet sont fournies deux études de cas sur les gestes co-grammaticaux indexicaux et iconiques. L'idée centrale de cette grammaire multimodale est que mots et gestes, au sens large, appartenant à des canaux sémiotiques à première vue incompatibles, se doivent d'être intégrés dans une seule construction, fidèle à l'hypothèse cognitiviste que les construction…
Processing Deliberate Ambiguity in Newspaper Headlines
Two experiments investigated the processing and appreciation of double grounding, a form of intentional ambiguity often used in the construction of headlines. For example, in “Russia takes the froth off Carlsberg results,” the key element, “takes the froth off,” is significant both metaphorically, where it refers to the detrimental impact of Russia, and metonymically via a contextual link between the company Carlsberg and beer, its best-known pro…
In your face? Exploring multimodal response patterns involving facial responses to verbal and gestural stance-taking expressions
Dual feedback in interpreter-mediated interactions
Does framing work? An empirical study of Simplifying Models for sustainable food production
We investigate empirically whether framing in general, and the use of Simplifying Models as a framing tool in particular, has an effect on the way topics are cognitively construed. Existing studies on framing in linguistics have either been theoretical or descriptive. Going beyond such methodologically simple approaches, we use a more rigid test design involving the use of a control group, the construction of test conditions in which different Si…
Assessing the SSTH and GTVH
Despite its strong cognitive orientation in recent years, humor research still has paid relatively little attention to the paradigm of Cognitive linguistics (CL), which in light of its dynamic view on cognitive and semantic aspects of language in use, seems to provide an adequate framework for the analysis of humor. With regard to the “cognitive construal” of human experience as one of the basic notions of CL, this paper describes for three types…
Headlines and cartoons in the economic press
Introduction
Ever since the publication of Victor Raskin's seminal work on the
The cognitive mechanisms of adversarial humor
In this paper, we provide an in-depth cognitive analysis of a specific humor strategy we coin “trumping”, a multi-agent language game that revolves around the subversion of the linguistic forms of exchange. In particular, we illustrate how, in a conversational setting, agents can “reflect” and “distort” the linguistic-conceptual construal of each others' utterances. Because this reflection or parallelism in the trumping game can be situated on di…
Hyper- and misunderstanding in interactional humor
Processing Deliberate Ambiguity in Newspaper Headlines
Two experiments investigated the processing and appreciation of double grounding, a form of intentional ambiguity often used in the construction of headlines. For example, in “Russia takes the froth off Carlsberg results,” the key element, “takes the froth off,” is significant both metaphorically, where it refers to the detrimental impact of Russia, and metonymically via a contextual link between the company Carlsberg and beer, its best-known pro…
Does framing work? An empirical study of Simplifying Models for sustainable food production
We investigate empirically whether framing in general, and the use of Simplifying Models as a framing tool in particular, has an effect on the way topics are cognitively construed. Existing studies on framing in linguistics have either been theoretical or descriptive. Going beyond such methodologically simple approaches, we use a more rigid test design involving the use of a control group, the construction of test conditions in which different Si…
Towards a dialogic construction grammar
In this paper, we take a Construction Grammar approach to Du Bois' concept of resonance activation. We suggest that the structural mapping relations between juxtaposed utterances in discourse, described in terms of diagraphs in dialogic syntax, can acquire the status of ad hoc constructions or locally entrenched form-meaning pairings within the boundaries of an ongoing conversation. We argue that the local emergence of these ad hoc constructions …
Vers une analyse multimodale du sens. Perspectives constructionnelles sur la gestualité co-grammaticale
La présente contribution vise à mieux cerner le statut de la gestualité en grammaire. À cet effet sont fournies deux études de cas sur les gestes co-grammaticaux indexicaux et iconiques. L'idée centrale de cette grammaire multimodale est que mots et gestes, au sens large, appartenant à des canaux sémiotiques à première vue incompatibles, se doivent d'être intégrés dans une seule construction, fidèle à l'hypothèse cognitiviste que les construction…
Explaining interactive alignment
The shrug as marker of obviousness
This contribution focuses on the shrug as it is used in stance taking contexts in face-to-face conversations. The shrug qualifies as a ‘compound enactment’, in which prototypically different gestures are combined: “the eye-brows (which are being raised), the hands (which are turned so that the palms face up), the forearms (which may be lifted), and the shoulders (which are also raised). In addition, the head may be tilted” (Streeck 2009: 189. Ges…
Eye gaze and viewpoint in multimodal interaction management
In this paper, we present an embodiment perspective on viewpoint by exploring the role of eye gaze in face-to-face conversation, in relation to and interaction with other expressive modalities. More specifically, we look into gaze patterns, as well as gaze synchronization with speech, as instruments in the negotiation of participant roles in interaction. In order to obtain fine-grained information on the different modalities under scrutiny, we us…
On the role of gaze in the organization of turn-taking and sequence organization in interpreter-mediated dialogue
This paper contributes to the growing line of research that takes a multimodal approach in the study of interpreter-mediated dialogues. Drawing on insights from Conversation Analysis and multimodal analysis, we investigate how extended multi-unit turns unfold with interventions of an interpreter and, more specifically, what is the role of gaze in this process. The analysis is based on videos of interpreter-mediated dialogues (Dutch-Russian) recor…
Dual feedback in interpreter-mediated interactions
Affiliation in interpreter-mediated therapeutic talk
The aim of this article is to explore how affiliation ( Stivers 2008 ) with the patient is displayed and interactionally achieved in the context of an interpreter-mediated therapeutic dialogue. More specifically, we focus on the interplay between affiliative listener responses – especially head nods – and gaze in this setting. Interpreter-mediated therapeutic talk is not only a setting that has received very little systematic scrutiny in the lite…
Gaze and overlap resolution in triadic interactions
Unaddressed participants' gaze behavior in Flemish Sign Language interactions
Instructing embodied knowledge
In the introduction to the special issue on ‘Instructing embodied knowledge’, we present a general orientation into this growing field of research, providing the relevant background for the individual contributions. The starting point for the endeavor is the basic observation that practical knowledge or ‘knowing-how’ is typically of a procedural, implicit and embodied nature rather than explicit-conceptual. Given this specific nature, we highligh…
In other gestures
In this contribution, we investigate the transfer of embodied procedural knowledge in two cello master classes, zooming in on what we identify as speech-embedded nonverbal depictions — cases where meaning is communicated nonverbally, iconically, and without temporally co-occurring speech — an overlooked domain in the literature foregrounded by a critical reconceptualization of Clark’s (2016) framework of depicting. Examining such depictions in th…
Interpreters as laminated speakers
In your face? Exploring multimodal response patterns involving facial responses to verbal and gestural stance-taking expressions
Multimodal stance-taking in interaction—A systematic literature review
Stance-taking, the public act of positioning oneself toward objects, people or states of affairs, has been studied in many fields of research. Recently, its multimodal realization in interaction has received increasing attention. The current contribution aims to take stock of research on multimodal stance-taking so far, and to present possible avenues for future research. We systematically gathered and appraised 76 articles that investigate the i…
Gesture alignment in teacher–student interaction
Introduction In this study, we explore the presence of gesture alignment in office hour consultations, a form of academic talk characterized by private face-to-face dialogues between a lecturer and a university student. Unlike classroom interactions, the topic of these consultations is initiated by the student. Our objectives were to describe the patterns of gesture alignment in these educational settings, to determine the direction of the copied…
Interactional functions of raised eyebrows by ironists and their addressees
Irony is not an exclusively verbal phenomenon: it may also be accompanied by bodily-visual cues such as facial expressions, head movements and gaze behaviour (e.g. de Vries et al., 2021). A well-known bodily-visual action related to irony is the use of raised eyebrows, with previous studies primarily focusing on ironists raising their eyebrows to signal an ironic intent, i.e. Tabacaru and Lemmens’ (2014) gestural trigger concept. This article bui…
Close-recurrence analysis
A foundational aspect of social interaction is the phenomenon of joint attention, typically defined as a shared focus between two or more interlocutors on a particular subject, object or event. While joint attention research in the fields of Cognitive Linguistics and psycholinguistics has predominantly relied on task-based interactions in static environments, studies in the tradition of Interactional Linguistics and Conversation Analysis have foc…
Psychology (21 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (20 works) · Linguistics (18 works) · Computer Science (17 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (16 works) · Cognitive psychology (12 works) · Communication (11 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Artificial Intelligence (9 works) · Communication (9 works)