Schematic Embodiment of Perseverance in Persian

Omid Khatin-Zadeh, Jiehui Hu, Zahra Eskandari, Hassan Banaruee, Danyal Farsani

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Abstract

A group of Persian speakers were asked to talk about the concept of perseverance in semi-structured interviews. Gestures that participants used to talk about this concept were analyzed. The results showed that the concept of perseverance was primarily embodied in upward head gestures, fist-shaped hand gestures, forward hand gestures, and forward leg gestures. In a significant number of cases, these four elements occurred together. This suggests that the embodiment of perseverance can be distributed in several gestures in several body parts. Although these gestures had different directions in various body parts, the pattern of occurrence of these gestures was the same in a significant number of cases. We call this process schematic embodiment. These four elements create a gestural scheme that represents the embodied realization of perseverance. We define gestural scheme as a set of dynamic, sequential, and coordinated gestures that collectively represent a concept or an event.

Original languageEnglish
Article number12
JournalJournal of Psycholinguistic Research
Volume53
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Feb 2024

Keywords

  • Embodiment
  • Gestural scheme
  • Metaphor
  • Schematic embodiment

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