Wykład gościnny profesora Phalangchoka Wanpheta "Pragmatic Gestures in Naturally-Occurring Conversational Data"

Instytutu Anglistyki i Amerykanistyki na Wydziale Filologicznym UG

zaprasza na wykład gościnny profesora Phalangchoka Wanpheta, który odbędzie się

w środę 28 stycznia 2026 o godzinie 15.00 w sali 023 w Budynku Neofilologii Wydziału Filologicznego, ul. Wita Stwosza 51.

Wykład zatytułowany

Pragmatic Gestures in Naturally-Occurring Conversational Data/

Gesty pragmatyczne w naturalnie występujących danych konwersacyjnych 

zostanie wygłoszony w języku angielskim.

Po wykładzie przewidziana jest sesja pytań.

Abstrakt:

In traditional linguistics, there arose the division between competence and performance where the former is referred to as the speaker-hearer's knowledge of his/her language while the latter as the actual, observable use of language in situations. In this traditional view, competence, which is abstract and usually decontextualized, is considered the main area of linguistic investigations. In contrast, pragmatics, which is grouped under performance, is considered by many traditional linguists to be outside the core areas of linguistics. Gesture studies are usually embedded within the wider area of pragmatic studies; therefore, it is not included in traditional linguistic studies. This is due partly to what is considered “data” and how the data are observed and then examined in both views. The lecture will focus on co-speech gestures, or the hand and arm movements that are visible during speech production. Using a videoclip of talk-in-interaction, which is conducted in English, the lecture will deal with the pragmatic functions of co-speech gestures in naturally-occurring social interaction.

Biogram:

Phalangchok Wanphet is Professor of Applied Linguistics with teaching experience at the City University of New York-LaGuardia Community College, USA; King Mongkut’s University of Technology, Thailand; and the British University in Dubai, UAE. Since 2011, he has supervised 8 BA dissertations, 10 MA dissertations, and 3 PhD dissertations. In addition, he has presented research papers at 25 international conferences and is an editorial board member and a research paper reviewer for 24 international, peer-reviewed, research journals and 12 international conferences. He reviewed a manuscript for SAGE, Cambridge University Press, and Oxford University Press. His research interests include Second Language Acquisition, Second Language Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis, Conversation Analysis, and Classroom Discourse.