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A Survey of Drawing in Cross-Linguistic Communication

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Diagrammatic Representation and Inference (Diagrams 2002)

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This paper presents a small survey of the use of drawing in cross-linguistic communication. The findings indicate that drawing is an infrequent but valuable element of cross-linguistic interactions. It is used opportunistically, for a wide variety of functions, predominantly in dyadic interactions. It is used more frequently to support the drawer in contributing to an interaction conducted in their ‘second’ language, than to support an addressee in understanding a contribution in the drawer’s ‘first’ language. Also, two broad categories of drawing, ‘cross-cultural’ topics and language-use are more frequent in cross-linguistic interactions than in other contexts.

We gratefully acknowledge the support of ATR Media Information Science Laboratories and the ERSC/EPSRC grant MAGIC: Multimodality and Graphics in Interactive Communication (L328253003).

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  1. Information, Media and Communication Research Group Department of Computer Science Queen Mary, University of London, E1 4NS, London, UK

    Charlotte R. Peters & Patrick G. T. Healey

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  1. University of California, 93106, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

    Mary Hegarty

  2. School of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Monash University, Clayton Campus, Wellington Road, 3800, Victoria, Australia

    Bernd Meyer

  3. Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Auburn University, 107 Dunstan Hall, 36849, Auburn, AL, USA

    N. Hari Narayanan

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Peters, C.R., Healey, P.G.T. (2002). A Survey of Drawing in Cross-Linguistic Communication. In: Hegarty, M., Meyer, B., Narayanan, N.H. (eds) Diagrammatic Representation and Inference. Diagrams 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2317. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-46037-3_38

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