Mark Dingemanse Explained

Mark Dingemanse (Middelburg, Zeeland, the Netherlands, 1983) is a Dutch linguist and an Africanist. He is an associate professor in Language and Communication at the Centre for Language Studies of Radboud University Nijmegen. Dingemanse obtained a MA degree in African Languages and Cultures at Leiden University in 2006, and a PhD degree in arts in 2011 at Radboud University Nijmegen.^[1] He is also a Senior Investigator in the Multimodal Language and Cognition research group at the Nijmegen Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics.^[2] Dingemanse performed linguistic fieldwork in eastern Ghana and did comparative research on various languages. He is principal investigator of the research programme Elementary Particles of Conversation, on the small words in everyday language. The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences awarded Dingemans a Heineken Young Scientists Award in 2020.^{[3] [4]}

Publications

Dingemanse published many scholarly papers, including:^[5]

• The body in Yoruba : a linguistic study, MA Thesis, Leiden University, [Leiden], 2006.
• The meaning and use of ideophones in Siwu, PhD thesis, Radboud University Nijmegen, 24 October 2011.
• with Majid, Asifa: The semantic structure of sensory vocabulary in an African language, in Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society Vol. 34 (CogSci2012), eScholarship, University of California, 2012, pp. 300–306.^[6]
• with Francisco Torreira, and N. J. Enfield: Is "Huh?" a Universal Word? Conversational Infrastructure and the Convergent Evolution of Linguistic Items, PLOS One, 2013.^[7]
• with Liesenfeld, A.: From text to talk: Harnessing conversational corpora for humane and diversity-aware language technology, in Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), 5614–5633, 2022, doi: 10.18653/v1/2022.acl-long.385.^[8]
• with Heesen, R., et al.: Coordinating social action: A primer for the cross-species investigation of communicative repair, , 377(1859), 2022. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2021.0110.^[9]

External links

• . Video by Huh?. Duration 20s.

Notes and References

1. Web site: dr. M. Dingemanse (Mark) . www.ru.nl . Radboud University . 6 October 2022 .
2. Web site: Mark Dingemanse . www.mpi.nl . Max Planck Institute . 6 October 2022 .
3. Web site: Young researchers receive Heineken Young Scientists Award . 29 June 2020 . www.theheinekencompany.com/newsroom . 6 October 2022 .
4. Web site: Laureaten Heineken Young Scientists Awards 2022 bekend . 12 July 2022 . www.knaw.nl . Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences) . 6 October 2022 . Dutch.
5. Web site: Mark Dingemanse . scholar.google.com . Google Scholar . 6 October 2022 .
6. Web site: The semantic structure of sensory vocabulary in an African language . Dingemanse . Mark . Majid . Asifa . 2012 . escholarship.org . Cognitive Science Society . 6 October 2022 .
7. Is "Huh?" a Universal Word? Conversational Infrastructure and the Convergent Evolution of Linguistic Items . Dingemanse . Mark . Torreira . Francisco . Enfield . N. J. . PLOS ONE . November 8, 2013 . 8 . 11 . e78273 . 10.1371/journal.pone.0078273 . 24260108 . 3832628 . 2013PLoSO...878273D . A word like Huh?–used as a repair initiator when, for example, one has not clearly heard what someone just said– is found in roughly the same form and function in spoken languages across the globe.. free .
8. Web site: From text to talk: Harnessing conversational corpora for humane and diversity-aware language technology . Dingemanse . Mark . Liesenfeld . Andreas . aclanthology.org . ACL Anthology Association for Computational Linguistics. 6 October 2022 .
9. Coordinating social action: A primer for the cross-species investigation of communicative repair . Heesen . R. . May 2022 . Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences . 377 . 1859 . Royal Society . 10.1098/rstb.2021.0110 . 35876201 . 9310172 .