Polymod.LAB brings together researchers that analyze the diversity and effectiveness of discourse practices in various languages from a socio-cognitive point of view.
How do stereotypes, ideologies, identities, social myths and other types of socially shared mental structures influence our verbal behaviour? What are the communicative resources – verbal and nonverbal – that people use to influence people, to evade a question, or find common ground, etc.? How does your proficiency in different languages, including sign languages, influence your mental activity? Questions like these are being investigated at Polymod.LAB.
International Symposium "Multimodal Communication Across Languages and Cultures" (ISMMC) is an annual event held at Moscow State Linguistic University (MSLU) and dedicated to discussing the latest achievements in multimodal research.
Multimodal linguistics involves the study of language, taking into account all modes of communication. The combination of gestures, facial expressions, body language, speech, gaze and other semiotic signs forms the current discourse.
The identity is based on rebuses, which serve as a metaphor for the combination of different signs leading to a single meaning, as well as on stylized speech structures.
