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The look of writing in reading. Graphetic empathy in making and perceiving graphic traces
Susan A. J. StuartMarieke LongcampChris BaberChristian Mosbæk JohannessenPaul J. Thibaultsubject
050101 languages & linguisticsLinguistics and LanguageNeurophenomenologymedia_common.quotation_subjectEmpathyProsody050105 experimental psychologyLanguage and Linguistics[SCCO]Cognitive sciencePhonetic empathyHandwritingPerceptionReading (process)0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesSet (psychology)ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUSmedia_commonCognitive scienceOperationalization05 social sciencesElicitation interviewAffordanceTrace (semiology)PsychologyGraphetic empathyTraceGesturedescription
This article presents preliminary considerations and results from a research project designed to investigate the relation between (i) gestures, (ii) graphic traces and (iii) perceptions. More specifically, the project aims to test the hypothesis that graphic traces, including handwriting, can set up graphetic empathy between writers and readers of traces across long temporal and spatial distances. Insofar as a graphic trace is lawfully related to the gesture by which it came into being, the trace itself will hold information about the gesture, which may resonate with the sensorimotor system of a perceiver as if they themselves performed the gesture. If this is in fact so, it will have important and hitherto unanticipated implications for our understanding of the embodiment of reading. As part of the article we will present and discuss the results of a neurophenomenological trial study through which we attempt to operationalize the gesture-trace and trace-perception relations respectively. This article presents preliminary considerations and results from a research project designed to investigate the relation between (i) gestures, (ii) graphic traces and (iii) perceptions. More specifically, the project aims to test the hypothesis that graphic traces, including handwriting, can set up graphetic empathy between writers and readers of traces across long temporal and spatial distances. Insofar as a graphic trace is lawfully related to the gesture by which it came into being, the trace itself will hold information about the gesture, which may resonate with the sensorimotor system of a perceiver, as if they themselves performed the gesture. If this is in fact so, it will have important and hitherto unanticipated implications for our understanding of the embodiment of reading. As part of the article we will present and discuss the results of a neurophenomenological trial study through which we attempt to operationalize the gesture-trace and trace–perception relations respectively.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
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| 2021-03-01 |