@article{PetersCoetzeeVanRooy2020,
  author    = {Peters, Arne and Coetzee-Van Rooy, Susan},
  title     = {Exploring the interplay of language and body in South African youth},
  series = {Cognitive linguistics : an interdisciplinary journal of cognitive science},
  volume    = {31},
  journal   = {Cognitive linguistics : an interdisciplinary journal of cognitive science},
  number    = {4},
  publisher = {Mouton de Gruyter},
  address   = {Berlin},
  issn      = {0936-5907},
  doi       = {10.1515/cog-2019-0101},
  pages     = {579 -- 608},
  year      = {2020},
  abstract  = {Elicitation materials like language portraits are useful to investigate people's perceptions about the languages that they know. This study uses portraits to analyse the underlying conceptualisations people exhibit when reflecting on their language repertoires. Conceptualisations as manifestations of cultural cognition are the purview of cognitive sociolinguistics. The present study advances portrait methodology as it analyses data from structured language portraits of 105 South African youth as a linguistic corpus from both qualitative and quantitative perspectives. The approach enables the uncovering of (a) prominent underlying conceptualisations of African language(s) and the body, and (b) the differences and similarities of these conceptualisations vis-a-vis previous cognitive (socio) linguistic studies of embodied language experiences. In our analysis, African home languages emerged both as 'languages of the heart' linked to cultural identity and as 'languages of the head' linked to cognitive strength and control. Moreover, the notion of 'degrees of proficiency' or 'magnitude' of language knowledge emerged more prominently than in previous studies of embodied language experience.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{DrimallaLandwehrHessetal.2019,
  author    = {Drimalla, Hanna and Landwehr, Niels and Hess, Ursula and Dziobek, Isabel},
  title     = {From face to face},
  series = {Cognition and Emotion},
  volume    = {33},
  journal   = {Cognition and Emotion},
  number    = {8},
  publisher = {Routledge, Taylor \& Francis Group},
  address   = {Abingdon},
  issn      = {0269-9931},
  doi       = {10.1080/02699931.2019.1596068},
  pages     = {1672 -- 1686},
  year      = {2019},
  abstract  = {Despite advances in the conceptualisation of facial mimicry, its role in the processing of social information is a matter of debate. In the present study, we investigated the relationship between mimicry and cognitive and emotional empathy. To assess mimicry, facial electromyography was recorded for 70 participants while they completed the Multifaceted Empathy Test, which presents complex context-embedded emotional expressions. As predicted, inter-individual differences in emotional and cognitive empathy were associated with the level of facial mimicry. For positive emotions, the intensity of the mimicry response scaled with the level of state emotional empathy. Mimicry was stronger for the emotional empathy task compared to the cognitive empathy task. The specific empathy condition could be successfully detected from facial muscle activity at the level of single individuals using machine learning techniques. These results support the view that mimicry occurs depending on the social context as a tool to affiliate and it is involved in cognitive as well as emotional empathy.},
  language  = {en}
}