第13回京都大学グローバルCOE共催講演会

「心が活きる教育のための国際的拠点」

B・D合同プロジェクト「幸福感の国際比較研究」

 

Bergen教授講演会 ・セミナーの記録

 

  

ハワイ大学のBergen准教授が、日本学術振興会（企画者：東京工業大学　赤間啓之准教授）の招きにより来日しました。Bergen先生は，身体化認知，メタファー，イメージ，概念などの認知言語学的研究を進めている 若手の研究者です．Bergen先生は，Happinessに関しても研究をしているため， 幸福感の国際比較に関するG-COEのプロジェクトとしてB，Dチーム共催で,京大での講演会とセミナーをおこないました．この企画は山梨正明先生のご協力もいただきました．

  下記の通り、前半は、若手対象（院生、若手研究者など）の少人数の研究会、後半は講演会をおこないました。 講演では，Happinessについて言及していただ きました．約45名の出席で，活発な議論が行われました．

 

日時：2008年５月８日（木曜） 午後1時半-5時半　終了

場所： 京都大学百周年時計台記念館2F会議室III

アクセス・地図：http://www.kyoto-u.ac.jp/ja/access/campus/map6r_y.htm

　

1:30-3:30  若手中心セミナー International seminar on embodied cognition for young researcher

話題提供者

Otani, N.        Embodied Scales and Asymmetrical Distributions of Antonymy:The Stable Sense of the Particle Down and its Cognitive Basis

Taira, T.      Spatial cognition in sentence comprehension.

Tsunemi, K.  Two different perceptual aspects of literary reading

Kojima, T.    Perspective-taking in comprehension of projective spatial terms

　

4:00-5:30  講演会　

　

講演者： Benjamin Bergen (Department of Linguistics, University of Hawaii, Manoa)

http://www2.hawaii.edu/~bergen

　

タイトル：Mental Simulation in Language Understanding　 (言語理解におけるメンタルシミュレーション)

　

要旨:When people understand language, they do so using not only knowledge

specific to language, but also cognitive systems dedicated to perception,

motor control, and emotion. When your hear or read a sentence, you perform

a "mental simulation" of the content of that sentence - that is, you

imagine the things, events, and relations that are described. For

instance, when you read a sentence like "The monkey climbed the tree", you

construct visual images of a monkey climbing a tree, including the shape

of the monkey and the direction it is climbing in. When you hear a

sentence like "I punched the pillow with my right hand", you imagine the

feeling of punching a pillow, including the amount of force you would use,

and the texture of the pillow. When you hear a sentence like "Your pet dog

runs up to greet you after a long day away", you experience the happiness

appropriate to the situation.

In this talk, I will discuss experimental evidence showing that people are

indeed using mental simulation to understand language. Not only do words,

like "monkey" and "punch", affect mental simulation, so does grammar. As a

result, differences in grammar across languages, for instance Japanese and

English, produce differences in the mental simulations that people

construct while processing sentences in these languages.

This research is important in a broader view since it shows that, like

other higher cognitive functions, such as reason and memory, language

depends intimately on other, lower-level cognitive systems, such as those

dedicated to emotion, motor control, and perception.

問合せ先：　楠見　孝　kusumi(at)educ.kyoto-u.ac.jp     (at)=@

参考

Happiness関係の文献

Searching for Happiness or Full of Joy? Source Domain Activation Matters. In Proceedings of the 31st Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society.. (With Meylysa Tseng, Yiran Hu, and Wen-Wei Han)