Michael Lempert
University of Michigan
9 Papers
45 Citations
Michael Lempert is an academic researcher from University of Michigan. The author has contributed to research in topics: Gesture & Ordinary language philosophy. The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 9 publications.
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Barack Obama, being sharp: Indexical order in the pragmatics of precision-grip gesture
TL;DR: The authors revisited this problematic through a case study of precision-grip (especially thumb to tip of forefinger) in Barack Obama's debate performances (2004-2008) and found that it can index valorized attributes of speaker.
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No ordinary ethics
TL;DR: For instance, the authors suggests that everyday discursive interaction has tacit ethical dimensions, which is a line of inquiry that is productive for the anthropology of discourse and language use, and is relevant to our work.
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Interaction Rescaled: How Monastic Debate Became a Diasporic Pedagogy
TL;DR: The authors examines scale as an emergent dimension of sociospatial practice in educational institutions and describes how this educational practice has been placed as a rite of institution within the perimeter of Sera Monastery in India and rescaled into a more expansive diasporic pedagogy by reformers like the Dalai Lama.
Uncommon resemblance: Pragmatic affinity in political gesture
TL;DR: The authors used a corpus of televised political debate data from a US presidential campaign cycle, focusing on gesture variation in precision-grip and index-finger-extended gestures of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, identifying form-functional affinities among gestures that have not crystallized into stable types or classes.
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Ethics without immanence: A reply to Michael Lambek
TL;DR: The authors argue that the notion of ethical immanence risks making us complacent with respect to studying the diverse forms of communicative labor by which actors themselves frame and construe behavior as "ethics".
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