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language evolution, gesture studies, conversation analysis, politeness studies
Poland

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Nicolaus Copernicus University: Toruń, PL

1996-10-01 to present | Professor (Institute of Lingusitics)
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Przemyslaw Zywiczynski

Education and qualifications (3)

Nicolaus Copernicus University: Torun, PL

2002-10-01 to 2011-03-01 | D. Litt (English Department)
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Przemyslaw Zywiczynski

Nicolaus Copernicus University: Torun, PL

1996-10-01 to 2002-06-25 | Ph. D. (English Department)
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Przemyslaw Zywiczynski

Nicolaus Copernicus University: Torun, PL

1991-10-01 to 1996-05-25 | M. A. in English (English Department)
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Przemyslaw Zywiczynski

Works (39)

How much conversation content is actually social: human conversational behaviour revisited

Language and Cognition
2025 | Journal article
Contributors: Anna Szala; Sławomir Wacewicz; Marek Placiński; Aleksandra Ewa Poniewierska; Arkadiusz Schmeichel; Michal Mikolaj Stefanczyk; Przemysław Żywiczyński; Robin I.M. Dunbar
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A Cross-Cultural Approach to Cognitive State Attribution based on Inter-turn Speech Pauses

2024-10-02 | Preprint
Contributors: Theresa Matzinger; Michael Pleyer; Elizabeth Qing Zhang; Przemyslaw Zywiczynski
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How much language use is actually on social topics: Human conversational behavior revisited

2024-05-10 | Preprint
Contributors: Anna Szala; Sławomir Wacewicz; Marek Placiński; Aleksandra Ewa Poniewierska; Arkadiusz Schmeichel; Michał Stefańczyk; Przemyslaw Zywiczynski; R. I. M. Dunbar
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The central problem is still evolutionary stability

Behavioral and Brain Sciences
2023 | Journal article
Contributors: Sławomir Wacewicz; Przemysław Żywiczyński
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Evolution of Pantomime in Dyadic Interaction. A Motion Capture Study

Journal of Language Evolution
2023-12-30 | Journal article
Contributors: Marek Placiński; Przemysław Żywiczyński; Theresa Matzinger; Marta Sibierska; Monika Boruta-Żywiczyńska; Anna Szala; Sławomir Wacewicz
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Linguistic preference outcompetes alignment as a predictor for assessing others’ cooperativeness

2023-04-18 | Preprint
Contributors: Theresa Matzinger; Marek Placiński; Mariusz Lewandowski; Adam Gutowski; Przemyslaw Zywiczynski; Sławomir Wacewicz
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The representation of animal communication and language evolution in introductory linguistics textbooks

Journal of Language Evolution
2022-12-31 | Journal article
Contributors: Sławomir Wacewicz; Michael Pleyer; Aleksandra Szczepańska; Aleksandra Ewa Poniewierska; Przemysław Żywiczyński
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From Body to Language: Gestural and Pantomimic Scenarios of Language Origin in the Enlightenment

Topoi
2022-07 | Journal article
Contributors: Przemysław Żywiczyński; Sławomir Wacewicz
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Language and Its Limits: Meaning, Reference and the Ineffable in Buddhist Philosophy

Topoi
2022-07 | Journal article
Contributors: Johan Blomberg; Przemysław Żywiczyński
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Evolution of conventional communication. A cross-cultural study of pantomimic re-enactments of transitive events

Language & Communication
2021-09 | Journal article
Contributors: Przemysław Żywiczyński; Marta Sibierska; Sławomir Wacewicz; Joost van de Weijer; Francesco Ferretti; Ines Adornetti; Alessandra Chiera; Valentina Deriu
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Pantomimic fossils in modern human communication

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
2021-05-10 | Journal article
Contributors: Przemysław Żywiczyński; Sławomir Wacewicz; Casey Lister
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Defining Pantomime for Language Evolution Research

Topoi
2018 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84983789009

Contributors: Żywiczyński, P.; Wacewicz, S.; Sibierska, M.
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Przemyslaw Zywiczynski via Scopus - Elsevier

Fitness consequences, platform of trust, cooperation, and turn-taking

Interaction Studies
2018 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85053660086

Contributors: Wacewicz, S.; Żywiczyński, P.
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Przemyslaw Zywiczynski via Scopus - Elsevier

Humans do not perceive conspecifics with a greater exposed sclera as more trustworthy: a preliminary cross-ethnic study of the function of the overexposed human sclera

Acta Ethologica
2018 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85052309077

Contributors: Danel, D.P.; Wacewicz, S.; Lewandowski, Z.; Żywiczyński, P.; Perea-Garcia, J.O.
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Przemyslaw Zywiczynski via Scopus - Elsevier

Language Origins

Peter Lang
2018 | Book
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Przemyslaw Zywiczynski

Adaptors and the turn-taking mechanism the distribution of adaptors relative to turn borders in dyadic conversation

Interaction Studies
2017 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85038385552

Contributors: Żywiczyński, P.; Wacewicz, S.; Orzechowski, S.
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Przemyslaw Zywiczynski via Scopus - Elsevier

An evolutionary approach to low-level conversational cooperation

Language Sciences
2017 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85011629090

Contributors: Wacewicz, S.; Żywiczyński, P.; Chiera, A.
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Przemyslaw Zywiczynski via Scopus - Elsevier

Multimodal-first or pantomime-first? Communicating events through pantomime with and without vocalization

Interaction Studies
2017 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85027680169

Contributors: Zlatev, J.; Wacewicz, S.; Żywiczynski, P.; Van De Weijer, J.
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Przemyslaw Zywiczynski via Scopus - Elsevier

Self-regulators – A hidden dimension of interaction: Movement similarity and temporal proximity increase the perception of interpersonal coordination in third party observers

Language and Communication
2017 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85006716588

Contributors: Żywiczyński, P.; Orzechowski, S.; Wacewicz, S.
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Przemyslaw Zywiczynski via Scopus - Elsevier

The evolution of (proto-)language: Focus on mechanisms

Language Sciences
2017 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85021855905

Contributors: Zywiczynski, P.; Gontier, N.; Wacewicz, S.
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Przemyslaw Zywiczynski via Scopus - Elsevier

The multimodal origins of linguistic communication

Language and Communication
2017 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85007143950

Contributors: Wacewicz, S.; Zywiczynski, P.
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Przemyslaw Zywiczynski via Scopus - Elsevier

Language evolution and language origins in teaching linguistics at the university level

The Evolution of Language: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference (EVOLANGX11)
2016 | Book chapter
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Przemyslaw Zywiczynski

The Problem of Modality Transition in Gestural Primacy Hypothesis in Language Evolution: Towards Multimodal Hypotheses

Studia Semiotyczne - English Supplement
2016 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2451-2745
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Przemyslaw Zywiczynski

Visible movements of the orofacial area: Evidence for gestural or multimodal theories of language evolution?

Gesture
2016 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84978397941

Contributors: Wacewicz, S.; Zywiczyński, P.; Orzechowski, S.
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Przemyslaw Zywiczynski via Scopus - Elsevier

Vocal-auditory feedback and the modality transition problem in language evolution.

Reti, Saperi, Linguaggi. Italian Journal of Cognitive Sciences 3(1)
2016 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 2279-7777
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Przemyslaw Zywiczynski

Ewolucja języka

Wydawnictwo UMK
2015 | Book
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Przemyslaw Zywiczynski

Language Evolution: Why Hockett’s Design Features are a Non-Starter

Biosemiotics
2015 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84961370340

Contributors: Wacewicz, S.; Żywiczyński, P.
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Przemyslaw Zywiczynski via Scopus - Elsevier

Problem zmiany modalności w hipotezach pierwszeństwa gestów w ewolucji języka: w stronę hipotez multimodalnych

2015 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0137-6608
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Przemyslaw Zywiczynski

From the narrow to the broad. Multiple perspectives on language evolution

2015-01-30 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0867-4159
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Przemyslaw Zywiczynski

Linguistic politeness from an ethological perspective: Theoretical questions and empirical issues

2015-01-30 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0867-4159
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Przemyslaw Zywiczynski

OROFACIAL GESTURES IN LANGUAGE EVOLUTION: THE AUDITORY FEEDBACK HYPOTHESIS

2014-05 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9789814603621
Part of ISBN: 9789814603638
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Przemyslaw Zywiczynski

Human honest signalling and nonverbal communication

Psychology of Language and Communication
2012 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84888380873

Contributors: Wacewicz, S.; Zywiczyński, P.
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Przemyslaw Zywiczynski via Scopus - Elsevier

An attempt at a proxemic description of politeness from the ethological-evolutionary persepctive

2012-12-19 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0867-4159
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Przemyslaw Zywiczynski

Beyond protolanguage: Contemporary problems in the evolution of language

Theoria et Historia Scientiarum
2012-12-19 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0867-4159
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Przemyslaw Zywiczynski

THE COOPERATIVE NATURE OF CONVERSATION. EVIDENCE FROM CONVERSATIONAL EXCHANGES

2012-02 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9789814401494
Part of ISBN: 9789814401500
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Przemyslaw Zywiczynski

The Axiology of Spoken Interaction

Wydawnictwo Naukowe UMK
2010 | Book
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Przemyslaw Zywiczynski

THE RELEVANCE OF BODY LANGUAGE TO EVOLUTION OF LANGUAGE RESEARCH

2010-03 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 9789814295215
Part of ISBN: 9789814295222
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Przemyslaw Zywiczynski

Broadcast Transmission, Signal Secrecy And Gestural Primacy Hypothesis.

Evolution of Language. Proceedings of the 7th International Conference (EVOLANG 7)
2008 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 978-981-277-611-2
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Przemyslaw Zywiczynski

Constructivism in Indian Philosophy of Language

2006 | Book chapter
Part of ISBN: 83-231-1955-4
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Przemyslaw Zywiczynski