Arianna Maiorani

Kinesemiotics (eBook, ePUB)

Modelling How Choreographed Movement Means in Space

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This innovative work introduces the interdisciplinary field of research of kinesemiotics, offering a new adaptable model and means of analysis for understanding forms of movement-based communication, such as dance, that use a codified language shared by a community of users.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 102
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000264333
• Artikelnr.: 60197240

Autorenporträt

Arianna Maiorani is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at the School of Arts, English and Drama at Loughborough University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgements
Introduction
What is Kinesemiotics?
Chapter I - How to capture dance discourse?
1. Dance notation systems: what they do and do not do.
2. Dance as a language: the approach of dance studies, kinesthetics and
cognitive sciences to movement-based communication.
3. A socio-semiotic approach to dance: the theoretical background of
Kinesemiotics.
CHAPTER 2 - Basic concepts in Kinesemiotics
1. Kinesemiotics and the human body in space.
2. Space as a Semiotic Dimension
3. Motivated Movement as Projection and the Idea of Dance Discourse
4. The Functional Grammar of Dance model
5. Dance as a Mode
6. Dance language: system, instantiation and realization
7. Dance Discourse and Music
Chapter 3 - An introduction to manual analysis with the FGD.
1. Introduction to the analysis
2. Body parts movement possibilities in the FGD system
3. Comparative examples of manual analysis of moves and sequences.
4. Dance discourse and the music score.
Chapter 4 - The path to automated analysis: a series experiments with the
English National Ballet
1. Why automated analysis? Reasons and prospects for developing digital
recognition of dance discourse.
2. The experiment protocol
Open-ended conclusions
Bibliography
Index

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Preface and Acknowledgements

Introduction



What is Kinesemiotics?



Chapter I - How to capture dance discourse?

1. Dance notation systems: what they do and do not do.



2. Dance as a language: the approach of dance studies, kinesthetics and cognitive sciences to movement-based communication.





3. A socio-semiotic approach to dance: the theoretical background of Kinesemiotics.

CHAPTER 2 - Basic concepts in Kinesemiotics

1. Kinesemiotics and the human body in space.



2. Space as a Semiotic Dimension



3. Motivated Movement as Projection and the Idea of Dance Discourse



4. The Functional Grammar of Dance model



5. Dance as a Mode



6. Dance language: system, instantiation and realization



7. Dance Discourse and Music

Chapter 3 - An introduction to manual analysis with the FGD.

1. Introduction to the analysis



2. Body parts movement possibilities in the FGD system



3. Comparative examples of manual analysis of moves and sequences.



4. Dance discourse and the music score.

Chapter 4 - The path to automated analysis: a series experiments with the English National Ballet

1. Why automated analysis? Reasons and prospects for developing digital recognition of dance discourse.



2. The experiment protocol

Open-ended conclusions

Bibliography

Index