Foredrag ved Maria Graziano, Lund University Humanities Lab.
We often gesture when we talk, no matter what language we speak and what culture we belong to. However, there is a great variability in the extent to which people gesture.
According to a popular view some cultures, like those in the Mediterranean area, tend to gesture more in contrast to Northern European countries, where people seem not to
gesture so much. In this talk Maria Graziano will present the results of one of her studies in which she has compared the gestural behavior of Italian and Swedish speakers. She will show some examples to highlight the differences that emerge from her analysis.
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Som afslutning byder Kulturinstituttet på et glas italiensk vin.
Maria Graziano holds a double PhD in Linguistics obtained in 2009 from European School of Advanced Studies at the University “Suor Orsola Benincasa” (Napoli-Italy) and Université Stendhal (Grenoble-France). She is currently docent at Lund University where she works as pedagogical developer and researcher at the Humanities Lab that she joined in 2011 with a grant from the Swedish Research Council. Before moving to Sweden, she has been a post-doctoral fellow in Canada at the University of Alberta, and a visiting research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
Her work concerns language acquisition, and gesture-speech relationship from a theoretical, developmental and a cross-linguistic points of view. She has been awarded several grants from different funding agencies for her projects, and her work is published in renowned international journals such as Frontiers, and Language Learning.