Simon Garrod

List of John Benjamins publications for which Simon Garrod plays a role.

Titles

Subjects Communication Studies | Evolution of language | Interaction Studies | Semiotics

Experimental Semiotics: A new approach for studying the emergence and the evolution of human communication

Edited by Bruno Galantucci and Simon Garrod

Special issue of Interaction Studies 11:1 (2010) v, 159 pp.
Subjects Cognition and language | Evolution of language
Fay, Nicolas, Mark Ellison and Simon Garrod 2014 Iconicity: From sign to system in human communication and languageDiagrammatic Reasoning, Fusaroli, Riccardo and Kristian Tylén (eds.), pp. 244–263 | Article
This paper explores the role of iconicity in spoken language and other human communication systems. First, we concentrate on graphical and gestural communication and show how semantically motivated iconic signs play an important role in creating such communication systems from scratch. We then… read more
Garrod, Simon and Martin J. Pickering 2013 Interactive alignment and prediction 
in dialogueAlignment in Communication: Towards a new theory of communication, Wachsmuth, Ipke, Jan de Ruiter, Petra Jaecks and Stefan Kopp (eds.), pp. 193–204 | Article
In this chapter we discuss Pickering and Garrod’s (2004) interactive alignment account of dialogue processing and consider a range of evidence supporting the model. We then introduce a more nuanced account of interactive alignment than that in Pickering and Garrod (2004) based on speakers’ and… read more
Garrod, Simon, Nicolas Fay, Shane Rogers, Bradley Walker and Nik Swoboda 2012 Can iterated learning explain the emergence of graphical symbols?Experimental Semiotics: Studies on the emergence and evolution of human communication, Galantucci, Bruno and Simon Garrod (eds.), pp. 33–50 | Article
This paper contrasts two influential theoretical accounts of language change and evolution – Iterated Learning and Social Coordination. The contrast is based on an experiment that compares drawings produced with Garrod et al.’s (2007) ‘pictionary’ task with those produced in an Iterated Learning… read more
Garrod, Simon, Nicolas Fay, Shane Rogers, Bradley Walker and Nik Swoboda 2010 Can iterated learning explain the emergence of graphical symbols?Experimental Semiotics: A new approach for studying the emergence and the evolution of human communication, Galantucci, Bruno and Simon Garrod (eds.), pp. 33–50 | Article
This paper contrasts two influential theoretical accounts of language change and evolution – Iterated Learning and Social Coordination. The contrast is based on an experiment that compares drawings produced with Garrod et al’s (2007) ‘pictionary’ task with those produced in an Iterated Learning… read more