Associate Member
Iconicity, i.e. similarity between form and content, is present in visual communication to greater extent than it is in spoken and written language, and recent theoretical work on iconicity is largely based on the study of sign languages, gesture, and pictorial language. I am currently developing a research agenda whose goal is to study temporal iconicity in narrative discourse – the way the order and duration of events in the story are represented by the order and duration of utterances that report those events. The iconic representation of the order of events is probably the most standard example of iconicity in non-visual communication, and the extension of the idea to other temporal characteristics of events is the main new contribution of the envisaged research.
About
University of Cologne
katja.jasinskaja@uni-koeln.de
Selected Publications
Jasinskaja, K. (2024). Discourse Time is Real. Talk presented at the Workshop Incremental constructions within and across languages at the 35th European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information, ESSLLI 2024. https://lingbuzz.net/lingbuzz/008461. Leuven, Belgium.
Jasinskaja, K. and F. Zickenheiner (2024). “Speech acts that support other speech acts”. https://lingbuzz.net/lingbuzz/008455.
Jasinskaja, K. and E. Karagjosova (2020). “Rhetorical relations”. In: The Companion to Semantics. Ed. by D. Gutzmann, L. Matthewson, C. Meier, H. Rullmann, and T. E. Zimmermann. Oxford: Wiley.
Jasinskaja, K. (2013a). “Corrective Elaboration”. In: Lingua 132, pp. 51–66.
Jasinskaja, K. (2013b). “Iconic update”. In: Znaki czy nie znaki. Ed. by M. Guławska-Gawkowska and G. Zeldowicz. Warszawa: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, pp. 87–114.
Jasinskaja, K. and A. Rossdeutscher (2012). “Through Narrative Planning Towards the Preverbal Message: A DRT-based Approach”. In: Constraints in Discourse 3: Representing and inferring discourse structure. Ed. by A. Benz, P. Kühnlein, and M. Stede. John Benjamins, pp. 45–76.
Jasinskaja, K. (2010). “Modelling Discourse Relations by Topics and Implicatures: The Elaboration Default”. In: Constraints in Discourse 2. Ed. by A. Benz, P. Kühnlein, and C. Sidner. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 61–79.
Jasinskaja, K. and A. Rossdeutscher (2008). “Towards Generating Narratives from a Preverbal Message: A DRT-based approach”. In: Constraints in Discourse 3. Proceedings of the Workshop. Ed. by A. Benz, P. Kühnlein, and M. Stede. University of Potsdam. Potsdam, Germany, pp. 45–52.
Zeevat, H. and K. Jasinskaja (2007). “And as an additive particle”. In: Language, Representation and Reasoning. Memorial volume to Isabel Gómez Txurruka. Ed. by M. Aurnague, K. Korta, and J. M. Larrazabal. University of the Basque Country Press, pp. 315–340.