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Schuyler Laparle is a Lecturer at Tilburg University's Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences (TSHD), affiliated with the Department of Communication and Cognition. His research focuses on gesture studies, cognitive linguistics, metaphor analysis, and discourse analysis. He teaches courses such as Nonverbal Communication and Academic English.
His research explores how gestures shape conversation coherence, metaphor use in climate communication, and semiotic complexity in multimodal interaction. Recent publications analyze gestural discourse markers, multimodal AI challenges, and frame-based gesture semantics. He has received the LOT Grotevragenprijs (2023) for collaborative work on linguistic AI questions.
Laparle actively participates in academic activities, including organizing conferences like 'Communicating Climate Hope' (2024) and presenting at international forums on gesture analysis and metaphor studies. His work bridges theoretical linguistics with practical applications in discourse and multimodal communication.
