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ISGS Hong Kong is pleased to invite you to their next online seminar, co-organised by the Department of English and Communication of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
Register at https://www.polyu.edu.hk/pfs2/index.php/172191?newtest=Y
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The 16th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC) took place from August 7 to 11, 2023 in Düsseldorf. Actual research of the chair was presented in two presentations by Cornelia Müller ("Taking an affective stance: How affectivity is mobilized in mediatised political debates.") and Clara Kindler ("Affective stance-taking in mediatised political speeches of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen (The German ‘Green Party’)"). Also Jana Junge and Teresa Weigand participated in the conference. Picture: Cornelia Müller during her presentation
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 Picture (from left to right): Maciej Karpiński, Ewa Jarmołowicz-Nowikow, Jana Junge, Cornelia Müller, Clara Kindler |
From 9th to 14th July the 18th International Pragmatics Conference took place in Brussels. Cornelia Müller, Clara Kindler and Jana Junge participated. Cornelia Müller organised a panel on the subject Multimodal stancetaking – the (a) typical case of taking a stance? Within this panel, both Cornelia Müller and Clara Kindler presented current research of the chair. In addition, there were further presentations within the panel on the latest research results of the research project Multimodal Stancetaking by the Polish collegues Prof. Maciej Karpinski, Prof. Katarzyna Klessa and Prof. Ewa Jarmołowicz-Nowikow.
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09-14 July 2023
At the 18th International Pragmatics Conference in Brussels, which was also attended by members of the department, there was the opportunity to meet colleagues from previous collaborations and to establish new contacts during various activities. The photos show a few impressions.
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The first doctoral students' workshop of the Viadrina Linguistics Department took place on 4 and 5 July. Clara Kindler and Jeanette-Christine Bauer each gave a presentation. Clara Kindler spoke about Affective stance-taking in mediatised political speeches of "Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen" (The German 'Green Party') and used two examples to show how affect works differently in different mediatised contexts. Jeanette-Christine Bauer presented her doctoral project and then demonstrated the methods of gesture and prosody analysis on a selected example of a speech by the Polish PiS president. |
The chair is happy to announce that in the upcoming academic year (2023/2024), Paloma Batista Cardoso from Universidade Federal de Sergipe (Brazil) will visit the Chair of Language Use and Multimodal Communication for a research visit. Her stay is funded by a Capes-Humboldt Research Fellowship of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung. Paloma Batista Cardoso's doctoral research is on processing linguistic variation and paralinguistic cues.
April 25th
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At the beginning of the semester, Jana Junge and Clara Kindler travel together to visit the Spanish Department of the Universitat de Valencia. There they meet Sandra Cabanes Perez, who was a guest promoter at Cornelia Müller's chair just a few weeks before. In the context of atalk on the topic As-if brushing something aside. On gestures and their pragmatic functions, they present theoretical and methodological approaches to gestures with primarily pragmatic functions and discuss them with colleagues from the Faculty of Philology, Translation and Communication. |
April 26th-28th
On April 26th, Jana Junge and Clara Kindler present a poster entitled Affective Stancetaking in Political Speeches. Some Insights into Processes of Multimodal Meaning-making in Media Specific Contexts. The analyses and approaches presented show the results of the DFG research project Multimodal Stancetaking and Clara Kindler's dissertation project Affect and Intercorporality in Political Communication (working title).
December 9th
On December 9th the online conference of the International Society of Gesture Studies (ISGS) takes place on the theme A Day of Sense-Making. Living, Moving, Knowing, Feeling, Gesturing. Prof. Dr. Cornelia Müller's former colleague Dr. Silva Ladewig also gives a presentation on the topic "The slapping movement as an embodied practice of dislike. Inter-affectivity in interactions among children". (Programme & registration, see link)
November 30th & December 14th
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Since the summer semester of 2022, international young researchers have been meeting regularly at the International Research Seminar to exchange information about their current research. Master's theses, doctoral projects and doctoral dissertations are presented and discussed within the framework "Multimodality - Discourse - Media". This exchange is accompanied by experts. The colloquium will also be continued this semester. On November 30th and December 14th from 6 to 8 p.m. sharp, exciting insights into current research projects will again be provided (for abstracts, see link above). As an interantional format, the sessions will be held in English and via Zoom. If you are interested in participating with or without a contribution, please send an email to Clara Kindler (kindler at europa-uni.de) or Katerina Papadopoulou (papadopoulou at europa-uni.de). For a contribution, please submit a short abstract of max. 200 words. |
November 4th-5th
Clara Kindler organises a graduate conference together with another doctoral student from the EUV and Master's students from the University/FH Potsdam as part of the ZeM's annual focus on "Digital Realities".
The graduate conference "un:reale Interaktionsräume. Formen sozialer Ordnung im Spektrum medienspezifischer Interaktion" (un:real spaces of interaction. Forms of social order in the spectrum of media-specific interaction) takes a look at media-specific spaces of interaction and the production of social orders and realities. The overarching question of the conference therefore deals with the emergence, change and shaping of interaction spaces in the spectrum between human-human and human-machine, in which actors communicate with each other through or with technologies.
In this context, Katerina Papadopoulou held a workshop on the analytical concept of so-called expressive movements on November.5th
All information can be found in the programme booklet or on the conference website.
Registration is requested.
January 26th
Charlotte Rieck, MuDiM graduate, was awarded with the Exzellenzpreis 2022 der Deutsch-Französischen Hochschule for exceptional academic achievement.
She wrote her Master's thesis, supervised by Prof. Cornelia Müller, on the topic:
Metaphor Use and Dynamic Meaning-Making in Podcast Episodes Addressing the Covid 19 Pandemic A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Germany and the United States
(Sinn geben. Metapherngebrauch und dynamische Bedeutungsstiftung in Podcast-Episoden zur COVID-19-Pandemie. Ein interkultureller Vergleich zwischen Deutschland und den Vereinigten Staaten.
The award is funded by the Franco-German cultural broadcaster Arte.
November 19th
On November 19th, 2019, Prof. Dr. Cornelia Müller gave an online lecture on the topic of "Miming as "as-if" action. Thinking and acting by hand" at the Pantomime Workshop "Perspectives on Pantomime: evolution, development, interaction" in Toruń (more context and programme information of the workshop).
June 28th
On June 28th 2021, Dr Silva Ladewig gave an online lecture on "Exploring the spine. The temporal unfolding of multimodal meaning in a yoga tutorial" at this year's International Pragmatics Association Conference (IPrA2021).
June 11th
At the IMCC (International Multimodal Communication Centre) Seminar of the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies University of Oxford, Prof. Dr. Cornelia Müller will give a lecture on "Gestures as Temporal Forms" on Friday, June 11th (https://imcc.web.ox.ac.uk/imcc-events#/).
Abstract: The goal of the talk is to substantiate the idea that the meaning of gestures critically depends upon their nature as temporal forms. When, for example, chancellor Merkel speaks of rising social costs of salaries in Germany and outlines a succession of rising stairs with her hand, the emerging gestural image is a temporal form, an image that extends in time (Müller 2019). Since Adam Kendon’s early and pioneering work on the segmentation of gestural movements into gesture phrases and gesture units (Kendon 1972, 1980, 2004), the temporality of gestures has been a basic consensus in the field of gesture studies. It has been a cornerstone for qualitative and quantitative research and an essential for the account of gestural meaning: only the stroke phase of the gestural movement has been considered as meaningful. The resulting ephemeral images have been treated as ‘mental images’, ‘windows on the mind’, ‘visible actions as utterance’, or ‘moves in a conversation’. Yet, despite the tacit agreement on the temporality of gestures, these images and moves have been either regarded as static images or as social actions. The fact, however, that they are moving images – as audiovisual images – has not received particular attention. This is the topic and the focus of the talk. I am going to argue for an account of gestures as temporal forms that starts from the idea of gestures as ‘movement-images’ in a Philosophical Anthropology sense. This account implies a methodology that takes the simultaneity and linearity of gestural forms into systematic consideration and includes micro-level perspectives as well as the dynamics of discourse (Müller & Kappelhoff 2018). In short, the talk offers an outline of a transdisciplinary approach to gesture as a temporal form – a characteristic trait that gestures share with audiovisual images.
References:
Kendon, Adam (1980). Gesture and Speech: Two Aspects of the Process of Utterance. In: Mary Ritchie Key (ed.), Nonverbal Communication and Language, 207-227. The Hague: Mouton.
Kendon, Adam (2004). Gesture. Visible Action as Utterance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Müller, Cornelia & Hermann Kappelhoff (2018). Cinematic Metaphor: Experience – Affectivity – Temporality. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter.
Müller, Cornelia (2019). Metaphorizing as Embodied Interactivity: What Gesturing and Film Viewing Can Tell Us About an Ecological View on Metaphor. Metaphor and Symbol, 34(1): 61–79.
A binational DFG/NCN application submitted by Professor Cornelia Müller together with Professor Maciej Karpiński (UAM Poznań) for the project "Multimodal Stancetaking: Expressive Movement and Affective Stance. Political Debates in the German Bundestag and the Polish Sejm" will be funded with 246,250 euros as part of the German-Polish funding programme Beethoven-Classic.
Dr. Dorothea Horst took part in the conference "Denken - Sprechen - Gendern" (Thinking - Speaking - Gendering) from October 10th to 11th, which was a part of the interdisciplinary research project "Geschlechtergerechte Sprache in Theorie und Praxis" (Gender-responsive language in theory and practice) of Leibniz University and Hanover Medical School.
August 14th
With the state elections in Brandenburg coming up on September 1st, Dr. Dorothea Horst talkes with the editors of the Märkische Oderzeitung about the role of election posters in the election campaign and how they create multimodal meaning.
https://www.moz.de/landkreise/oder-spree/frankfurt-oder/artikel9/dg/0/1/1746490/
https://www.moz.de/galerie/uebersicht/g3/784016/
August 6th-11th
Dr. Dorothea Horst and Lena Hotze participated in the 15th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference (ICLC) in Nishinomiya. In the theme session on "Stance-stacking in language and multimodal communication" organised by Barbara Dancygier, Sally Rice and Terry Janzen, Dr. Dorothea Horst spoke about stance as a multimodal, dynamic and intersubjective phenomenon in interaction. Lena Hotze presented research results from her doctoral thesis entitled "Recurrent gestures and multimodal patterns in kindergarten children" in the theme session "Cross-linguistic perspectives on gesture: Recurrency as a basis for comparison" organised by Prof. Dr. Cornelia Müller and Dr. Simon Harrison.
May 28th
On May 28th, the annual spring lecture of the Brandeburg Zentrum für Medienwissenschaften (ZeM - Brandeburg Center for Media Studies) took place under the title "Gesture Aesthetics: Exploring Movement in Conversation, Film and Digital Arts" at Viadrina. Together with the Junior Professorship for Media, Culture and Communication - Prof. Dr. Sarah Greifenstein - Prof. Dr. Cornelia Müller and Dr. Dorothea Horst organised in cooperation with international guests from the universities Paris 8 and Rouen the event composed of presentations and a interactive digital exhibition.
May 16th
Upon invitation by Jakub Jehlička, Dr. Silva Ladewig gave a lecture on Recurrent gestures and the systematicity of diversity at the Gesture-Sign Workshop in Prague.
May, 7th
Prof. Dr. Cornelia Müller gave a presentation on the topic "Gesten - heute. Sprach'bilder' und gestische Verkörperung" (Gestures - today. Language 'images' and gestural embodiment) within the series of lectures accompanying the exhibition"Gesten - gesten, heute, übermorgen" (Gestures - yesterday, today, tomorrow).
May 3rd-5th
Prof. Dr. Cornelia Müller and Dr. Dorothea Horst participated in the 12th International Symposium "Iconicity in Language and Literature" (ILL-12) in Lund. Under the title "Metaphorizing political candidates: The dynamics of metaphorical meaning in campaign commercials", Dr. Dorothea Horst presented research results from her 2018 book "Meaning-Making and Political Campaign Advertising". Prof. Dr. Cornelia Müller gave a plenary lecture on "Doing Cinematic Metaphor" and presented a transdisciplinary dynamic perspective on metaphorical meaning-making in multimodal face-to-face interaction and audiovisual media.
February 25th
Upon invitation from PD Dr. Oliver Ehmer and Prof. Dr. Geert Brône, Dr. Silva Ladewig participated in the Symposium "Transferring embodied knowledge. Multimodal approaches to interactive practices for knowledge constitution" (Albert-Ludwigs Universität Freiburg). She presented the latest analyses of a tango training within the BMBF project unter the title "Working with a bodily sensation. The transfer of embodied knowledge using multimodal metaphors in a tango class".
Feburary 11th-12th
Under the motto "Analyzing expressive movement units", the chair team, together with the team of Prof. Dr. Stefan Pfänder, organised an internal workshop at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg. The focus was on both reading work and data sessions.
December, 18th
Dr. Silva Ladewig together with Dr. Jana Bressem held a guest lecture under the title "Gestenforschung meets DaZ. Zum Potenzial von gestischen Praktiken in der Sprachvermittlung" (Gestural studies meet DaZ. On the potential of gestural practices in language teaching) in the Linguistic Colloquium organised by Prof. Dr. Karin Birkner and her team. The content of the lecture was the first research results of her interdisciplinary study on linguistic-gestural practices in second language acquisition, which she conducts together with Dr. Jana Bressem (TU Chemnitz) and Uta Großmann (TU Dresden).
December 13th
Dr. Silva Ladewig participated at the 8th CogLing Days of the Belgium Netherlands Cognitive Linguistics Association (BeNeCLA) in Louvain-la-Neuve. She gave a plenary lecture on the topic of "Cognitive grammar multimodal" and presented some theses from her book, which is currently being published.
October 23rd
Dr. Dorothea Horst participated in the 4th International Conference on "Figurative Thought and Language" (FTL) from October 23th to 26th at the Catholic University in Braga, Portugal. There she presented research results from her doctoral thesis under the title "Getting a feel for political candidates: Audiovisual figurativity in campaign commercials".
Dr. Silva Ladewig discussed together with Prof. Anne Schlüter, Sara Gouadagnini and Dr. Robert Frau on the topic "Wissenschaftliche Karriere und soziale Herkunft" (Academic career and social background) during the closure event of the Viadrina Mentoring Programme.
September 24th-26th
Prof. Dr. Cornelia Müller, Dr. Dorothea Horst and Lena Hotze participated in the Conference of the Polish Cognitive Linguistics Association (PCLA) from September 24th to 26th at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Prof. Dr. Cornelia Müller held a plenary lecture on the topic "Multimodal Patterns. Temporality and Embodiment of Meaning-Making". Dr. Dorothea Horst talked about "Affect as Multimodal Pattern in Face-to-Face Communication". Lena Hotze presented results of her doctoral thesis under the title "Gesture-speech combinations in peer interaction during preschool years".
September 14th
Dr. Silva Ladewig gave a lecture at the 50th Congress of the Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik (GAL), held at the University of Duisburg-Essen. In the symposium "Sprachliche Integration von Geflüchteten/Linguistic Incorporation of Refugees", she and Dr. Jana Bressem (TU Chemnitz) presented initial analyses on the topic of "Cultural Diversity of Linguistic and Physical Practices in DaZ Teaching".
June 18th
Dr Dorothea Horst discussed "serious" news, "fake news" and the credibility of the media at a panel discussion at the European University Viadrina on June 18th entitled "Alles Lüge, alles Fake - Medien in der Vertrauenskrise?!" (All Lies, All Fake - Media in a Crisis of Trust?!) with the editorial director of the rbb studio in Frankfurt (Oder), Andreas Oppermann, the regional chairman of the German Journalists' Association Berlin, Bernd Lammel, and the editor-in-chief of the Märkische Oderzeitung, Claus Liesegang. The discussion was moderated by Amelie Ernst, rbb reporter and board member of the Brandenburg State Press Conference.
https://www.moz.de/nachrichten/brandenburg/artikel-ansicht/dg/0/1/1664210/
February 14th-16th
Prof. Dr. Cornelia Müller and Dr. Silva Ladewig presented at the symposium related to the exhibition "Gesten - gestern, heute, übermorgen" (Gestures - yesterday, today, tomorrow) in the Industriemuseum Chemnitz (Industry museum Chemnitz). Prof. Dr. Ellen Fricke and Dr. Jana Bressem (TU Chemnitz) had invited numerous gesture and sign language researchers from all over Germany to exchange current and future research perspectives.
February 5th-9th
Dr. Dorothea Horst and Lena Hotze organised together with Anja Voigt and Gina Henry from the Viadrina Writing Center the first nationwide Booksprint. As part of the master's seminar "Senden - Empfangen - Entschlüsseln? Wie entsteht Bedeutung in Face-to-Face-Kommunikation?" (Send - Receive - Decode? How does meaning emerge in face-to-face communication?) and the Bachelor's seminar "Multimodale Kommunikation im Spracherwerb - Bedeutungsherstellung in der kindlichen Interaktion" (Multimodal communication in language acquisition - meaning production in children's interaction), the students produced their seminar exams in the form of a research article, which they wrote in small groups within one week.
January 31st - Feburary 2nd
Prof. Dr. Cornelia Müller, Dr. Silva Ladewig, Dr. Dorothea Horst and Lena Hotze participated in a workshop organised by Prof. Dr. Stefan Pfänder (University of Freiburg) together with his team. Prof. Dr. Cornelia Müller also gave the opening lecture at the conference Rhythm and sound in performative practices and psychotherapy at FRIAS (Freiburg). With her lecture on "Reccurent gestures in interaction", Dr. Silva Ladewig introduced together with Dr. Jana Bressem (TU Chemnitz) the research field of recurrent gestures.
January 30th
Dr. Dorothea Horst and Dr. Silva Ladewig gave the lecture "Multimodale Daten im Spannungsfeld zwischen Zugänglichkeit und Zeigbarkeit - ein kulturwissenschaftliches Forschungsfeld an der Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)" (Multimodal data in the conflict area between accessibility and presentability - a field of research in cultural studies at the European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder)) at the digitisation workshop Rechtliche Aspekte bei digitalen Forschungsdaten (Legal Aspects of Digital Research Data). Researchers met here to discuss the (legal) challenges of digital data management. The workshop was organised by the BMBF project FDMentor in cooperation with the DFG project eDissPlus and the Viadrina Research Department.
From November 23th to 24th, the workshop on Multimodality: Embodiment and Intersubjectivity (MaMuD4), organised by the Chair for Language Use and Multimodal Communication, took place at the Viadrina as part of the international event series Mapping Multimodal Dialogue (MaMuD).
Within the framework of MaMuD, small international workshops are organised every one to two years with the aim of discussing new trends and ongoing research in the research field of "Multimodal Communication and Interaction". By hosting the 4th MaMuD workshop, the Chair for Language Use and Multimodal Communication presents itself as an important location within the research landscape and continues its academic meeting tradition in the field of multimodality research, which began with the hosting of the 4th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Research Gesture. Evolution, brain, and linguistic structures (2010), the conference on Embodiment, Cognition and Language (2013) and the RaAM workshop How meaning becomes graspable (2016).
With its thematic focus on intersubjectivity and embodiment, MaMuD4 foregrounded two aspects of multimodality on whose divergent understandings cognitive and interactional research perspectives are fixed. The workshop aimed in particular at reflecting on these theoretical concepts and their consequences for empirical research of multimodal communication and interaction. In addition to a plenary lecture by Dr. Jens Lanwer on multimodal constructions, there were a number of shorter lectures on ongoing research projects by colleagues from Belgium, the Netherlands, Poland and Canada.
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June 21st - 23rd Prof. Dr. Cornelia Müller participated at the Conference “Language as a Form of Action” in Rome and gave a talk on the topic „Gestures as „as-if actions““. „The aim of the conference is to approach gesture and sign language research in an interdisciplinary way by bringing together researchers working on these topics from the fields of linguistics, neuroscience, developmental psychology, developmental robotics, philosophy, and other related disciplines. We aim to explore the concept of “language” in its full complexity, i.e., by considering the interaction of vocal and manual (including non-manual features) modalities in spoken languages as well as in signed languages.“ (source) June 9th-11th Chair members Lena Hotze, Dr. Dorothea Horst and Dr. Silva Ladewig participated in the International Conference on Multimodal Communication in Osnabrück. Together with Dr. Jana Bressem (TU Chemnitz) Dr. Silva Ladewig gave a workshop on the topic „Methods of Gesture Analysis–analyzing multimodality from a cognitive-linguistic perspective“. Furthermore, Dr. Dorothea Horst gave a presentation on "The embodied and multimodal dynamics of metaphor in campaign commercials". Please follow the link for detailed information June 2nd Stuttgart Research Focus (SRF), an institution working across faculties to promote interdisciplinary research in the fields of linguistics and cognition at Stuttgart University, organized the „Week of Gesture and Sign“. Following an invitation by Dr. Cornelia Ebert, Dr. Silva Ladewig participated with a presentation on "Integrating gestures by replacing nouns and verbs of spoken language". |
| May 2017 |
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Prof. Dr. Cornelia Müller as well as Lena Hotze met up in Moscow with fellow experts to discuss and elaborate the newest developtments of the ongoing research project „Verbal and co-verbal means of event contrual across languages“
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| March 2017 |
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As an expert on gestures, Dr. Silva Ladewig supported the “Haus der kleinen Forscher” (“House of the little researchers”), a foundation that provides education for pedagogic staff and teachers. She participated in the series “Andere Länder, andere Gesten” (“Other countries, other gestures”) focusing on emblems in different cultures. Several gestures were presented that can be important to know when working with children from other countries – to facilitate understanding and prevent from misconceptions. The entire article is available here. 4 March Dr. Silva Ladewig was invited by Prof. Dr. Rolf-Torsten Kramer to give an introduction to multimodal communication at the 6th AG Kasuistik. Link to the AG Kasuistik |
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From October 31 to November 2nd 2016, the workshop „Methods in Multimodal Communication Research“ (MeMuMo) took place at MSLU in Moscow. During this workshop, Prof. Dr. Alan Cienki (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Moscow State Linguistic University), Prof. Dr. Aliyah Morgenstern (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris) and Prof Dr. Cornelia Müller (Europa-Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder) gave an interview on their current project „Verbal and co-verbal means of event construal across languages“. In this project they investigate how linguistic world-views, based on grammatical expressions of time contours, have emerged in Russian, French and German in the form of aspect systems. The full interview is available here: Link |
| December 2016 |
| From December 1st to 2nd, Dorothea Horst as well as Prof. Dr. Nicole Richter and Janett Haid from the Chair of Multicultural Communication (Slavonic and English Linguistics and Languagr Use), attended the conference „Metaphors and politicl discourse“ (Metapol) in Liège, Belgium. Together, they gave a presentation on the construction of enemy images in populist discourse, using examples of multimodal metaphors. Furthermore, Dorothea Horst presented some of the results of her dissertation project. There she compared how candidates in a German and a Polish election campaign ad used different dynamic forms of metaphorizing. |
| October 2016 |
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13 October On October 13, Dr. Silva Ladewig gave a presentation at Bildungscampus Nürnberg. In her lecture „What our body knows and what it communicates. „Body language“ from the perspective of modern Gesture Studies.“ she spoke about the field of research in general and about the different functions of gestures. Furthermore, the lecture focused on cultural differences and similarities regarding gestures. Follow the link for further information. 5 - 7 October The International Conference Cognitive approaches to interaction and language attitudes was held at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Campus Duisburg. It was the 7th Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association. Several research associates of the Chair for Language Use and Multimodal Communication participated in the scientific exchange. Presentations by Lena Hotze „Filling a research gap? Multimodal constructions in preschool children” and Franziska Boll „Gestural alignment in consecutive interpreting?“ were well attended and sparked fruitful discussions. Follow the link for futher information. |
| August 2016 |
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The Chair for Language Use and Multimodal Communication under Chair Holder Prof. Dr. Cornelia Müller has contributed a video installation to the exhibition „SPRACHE - Welt der Worte, Zeichen, Gesten“ („LANGUAGE - World of words, signs, gestures“) at the German Hygiene Museum, Dresden. The installation „Bedeutung (be)greifen. Metaphern in Sprache und Geste“ („Grasping meaning. Metaphors in language and gestures“) deals with metaphors that are expressed through language and gestures and is open to the public from 24 september 2016 - 20 august 2017. Further information about the exhibition is available here. |
| July 2016 |
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From July 18-20, the 7th ISGS conference (International Society of Gesture Studies) took place in Paris, France. Prof. Dr. Cornelia Müller as well as research associates Dr. Silva Ladewig, Franziska Boll and Lena Hotze participated in the conference. Invited as a plenary speaker, Dr. Cornelia Müllere gave a lecture on the topic „Frames of Experience - The Embodied Meanng of Gestures“. Furthermore Dr.Silva Ladewig was speaker at the pre-conference workshop presenting and discussing NEUROGES and LASG Other members of the chair also presented theoretical approaches as well as their latest research results. Presentations: Silva Ladewig, Lena Hotze & Franziska Boll "How discourse shapes the understanding of gesture", Lena Hotze “Filling a research gap? Multimodal constructions in preschool children”, Franziska Boll “Gestural alignment in consecutive interpreting?” Further informaton is available here.
(Foto: Konrad Juszczyk) |
| June 2016 | |
| For their joint interdisciplinary research-focused seminar Auf dem Weg zum ‚perfekten Text’ (Ways to write a ‚perfect text’), Dorothea Horst and Katrin Girgensohn received the Teaching Award from the State of Brandenburg 2016, awarded by the Ministry of Economics (MWFK). Here you can find press information on the websites of EUV and MWFK. |
(Bild: Franziska Liebetanz) |
| May 2016 |
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Dr. Silva Ladewig and Franziska Boll are producing a new image film for the bachelor's programme of the ‘Faculty of Social and Cultural Science’ within their seminar „KuWi goes film: mutual progress and conceptualisation of a new image film“. The creative process is realised in conjunction with their students. Since one aim of the movie is to incorporate as many perspectives and ideas as possible we are calling for a collective brain storming. This brainstorming will take place at the art festival „ART an der Grenze“ in form of an installation with the guiding question “What do you associate with the Faculty of Social and Cultural Science at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt Oder?“. Everyone is welcome to participate and illustrate their ideas in form of words, pictures, forms or colours. The kick-off event of the installation will take place on Tuesday, 3rd of May, at 3 pm. The location is Große-Scharrnstraße 8, the so-called study mile. The installation will be open during the whole festival. Follow this link for further information. Participate and show us your associations with the bachelor programme! The corresponding article published in the ViadrINFO is available under following link. |
| Humanities Centres for Advanced Studies Cinepoetics |
| The Humanities Centres for Advanced Studies Cinepoetics is promoted by the DFG and deals with the hypothesis that cinematic pictures need to be understood as parties in the discourse of audiovisual pictures. During the winter term 2015/16 and the summer term 2016 Cornelia Müller runs the Humanities Centres for Advanced Studies Cinepoetics. Workshops with the focus on “metaphors and film” are held regularly with specific topics. Event Reports of the workshops are available through the following link. |
| February 2016 |
| Dr. Silva Ladewig participated in the BrownBagLectures II. These lectures were initiated by Jürgen Neyer, dean of the Faculty of Social and Cultural Science, in order to originate a self-conception of the Faculty. In her talk about "Cultural knowledge in our hands? Verbal-gestural communication as a research field of Cultural Science" she showed how gesture studies can be incorporated within Cultural Science. The presentation is available here. |
| Dorothea Horst welcomed in her seminar “The picture of the ‘refugee’. A critical analysis of the media discourse on refugees” the journalist Joanna Stolarek from the local newspaper ‘Märkischen Oderzeitung’ and a member of the state parliament René Wilke. The guests discussed in together with the students the use of language and press coverage in regard to the current discourse on refugees. |
| January 2016 |
| The team participated in the opening from the SignGes Centers (competence center for sign language and gestures) of the RWTH University, Aachen, from 21st until 22nd of January. The topic of the launching event was "Sign language and Gestures - principles and implementations". Please, use the following link for further information. |
| December 2015 |
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The Chair of Language Use and Multimodal Communication and the junior professorship of Language Use and Applied Linguistics welcomed international scientists from Poznan and Torun on December 18th to a practically oriented workshop "Data session and video analysis", conducted within the frameworks of our research network Dynamic Multimodal Communication and the Viadrina Gesture Center. This event offered an exchange platform on up-to-date research and analysis. The following event will take place in May 2016 at the University of Adam Mickiewicz in Poznan. |
| November 2015 |
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The team participated in this year's workshop Mapping Multimodal Dialogue (MaMuD 3) on 19th and 20th of November. The focus of the event was the Acquisition of multimodal interaction. More detailed information is provided here. |
| October 2015 |
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Silva Ladewig participated in a research seminar at the Oulu University in Finland, which took place from October 22 to October 24. Pentti Haddington and his team organized the event "The Language-Gesture-Connection" (LaGeCon) with international researchers, in order to introduce and to discuss new approaches in multimodality studies. Not only the experts' voices of Jürgen Streeck, Tommi Jantuunen and Silva Ladewig were heard during the workshop - the participating junior scientists also had an opportunity to present and discuss their research. The cooperation between Viadrina and Oulu Universities will foster further scientific interchange. |
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In the beginning of October Prof. Cornelia Müller visited the Faculty of Letters of the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) in Belo Horizonte (Brasil). Invited as a plenary speaker, she took part in the 5th international conference "Metaphor and Thought", presenting her paper on "Metaphor and gesture". Over 200 researchers in the field of metaphoricity and it's role in language and cognition participated in this international event. |
(Picture: Luciane Corrêa Ferreira and Cornelia Müller) |
| September 2015 |
| Based on the results of an interdisciplinary research seminar On the way to a perfect text, conducted by Dorothea Horst in cooperation with Katrin Girgensohn in the winter term 2014/15, an article appeared in the journal Schreiben. This article published the results of students' and both lecturers' case studies on the topic of text revision as a didactical instrument in writing-intensive seminars.
You will find the press review here. |
| July 2015 |
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This year's 13th ICLC (International Cognitive Linguistics Conference) took place in Newcastle, accommodating linguists from around the world. The topic of the conference, "Bringing together theory and method", derived from last year's congress. The Chair of Prof. Cornelia Müller also contributed to the session, presenting theoretical approaches and up-to-date research findings. Our presentations list as follows: Cornelia Müller & Jana Bressem "The Family of Away Gestures: Embodied roots of negative assessment, refusal, and negation", Cornelia Müller & Benjamin Marienfeld "Feeling for speaking and the dynamics of multimodal discourse", Silva H. Ladewig "Conceptual reification and sequential scanning in gestures? On Gestures and their relation to nouns and verbs of spoken language", Silva Ladewig, Lena Hotze & Franziska Boll "How discourse shapes the understanding of gesture", Dorothea Horst "Subtle Messages of Campaign Commercials". |
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| May 2015 |
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Franziska Boll participated at the 6th AFLiCO Language, Cognition and Society (http://aflico6.sciencesconf.org/) in Grenoble and gave a talk on the topic "Same tale - same gestures? Dynamic multimodal meaning making in consecutive story telling". |
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| January - December 2015 |
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Multimodal Constructions of Threat: Conceptualizing danger and enemies in populist discourse about the EU in Germany and Poland (in cooperation with the Chair for Language Use and Applied Linguistics): Multimodal analysis of danger conceptualizations within the EU-critical discourse of right-wing parties in Germany and Poland. Learn more in our Research Report or at the Homepage of the Chair for Language Use and Applied Linguistics. |
| September 2014 - December 2016 |
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The interrelation of verbal and co-verbal means of event construal across languages (international research project): The project scrutinizes differences in descriptions of event structure between French, German and Russian speakers, based on divergent lexical and grammatical aspects found in each language. You can learn more in our Research Report or at the Homepage of the Centre for Socio-Cognitive Discourse Studies at MSLU. |
| Our chair is happy to introduce Prof. Dr. Fabiszak and Dr. Jelec from the Department of Cognitive Linguistics of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan as our guest lecturers this spring term! You can learn more about both researchers, their main research foci and scientific work if click the following link. |
| November 2014 |
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Chairholder Prof. Dr. Cornelia Müller as well as her co-workers Franziska Boll, Dorothea Horst, Lena Hotze, and Benjamin Marienfeld participated at the the Mapping Multimodal Dialogue Workshop (MaMuD 2) in Leuven, where a multidisciplinary community of researchers met in order to talk about the cognitive underpinnings of multimodal dialogue. |
| October 2014 |
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The new HSK-Book "Body-Language-Communication: Volume 2" is completed and edited by the chairholder Cornelia Müller, Alan Cienki, Ellen Fricke, Silva H. Ladewig, David McNeill and Jana Bressem.Volume II of the handbook offers a unique collection of exemplary case studies. In five chapters and 99 articles it presents the state of the art on how body movements are used for communication around the world. Topics include the functions of body movements, their contexts of occurrence, their forms and meanings, their integration with speech, and how bodily motion can function as language. By including an interdisciplinary chapter on ‘embodiment’, volume II explores the body and its role in the grounding of language and communication from one of the most widely discussed current theoretical perspectives. Volume II of the handbook thus entails the following chapters: VI. Gestures across cultures, VII. Body movements: functions, contexts and interactions, VIII. Gesture and language, IX. Embodiment: the body and its role for cognition, emotion, and communication, X. Sign Language: Visible body movements as language. Please, use the following link for further information. |
| September 2014 |
| The chairholder Cornelia Müller was invited as one of the plenary speakers at the first conference of the International Association for Cognitive Semiotics (IACS) held at the Lund University in Sweden. |
| July 2014 |
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Cornelia Müller introduced one special family of the recurrent gestures with the talk „The family of away gestures. Embodied roots of negative assessment, refusal, and negation“ at the 6th ISGS-Conference (International Society of Gesture Studies) taking place at the University of California, San Diego. Furthermore, she participated at the event „Expert Eyes“ together with internationally-known gesture researchers like Adam Kedon, Alan Cienki, Marjorie Goodwin, Chuck Goodwin and Jürgen Streeck. They analysed two videos which they had not seen before and shared their first ideas with the plenum. In addition, Adam Kendon was rewarded with the book „From Gesture in Conversation to Visible Action as Utterance. Essays in honor of Adam Kendon“ by the co-author Cornelia Müller and the editors Mandana Seyfeddinipur und Marianne Gullberg in a ceremony. |
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| July to October 2014 |
| The chair of language use and multimodal communication , especially chairholder Prof. Dr. Cornelia Müller, welcomes the brazilian CAPES scholarshipholder Carlos Silva from the University Sao Paulo (USP) for a research stay at the European University Viadrina. He works and researches in areas as music, theatre, and modern dance as well as movement and gesture. Inspired by his passion "Capoeira" which he started in his youth he has focused on movement and gesture ever since. He studied Humanities at the University of Sao Paulo and Music at the University of Campina (Unicamp). After he stayed in Stuttgart at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst (1991/1992) putting an emphasis on rhythmics, he deepened his knowledge about this topic next to his schooling in rhythmical-musical education at the Rhytmikon in München (1992-1995). He finished his master`s thesis "Sound, Music, Act: Dalcroze enacts- the rhythm and language of enactment." in 2005 followed by his promotion "Gesture as an enacting tool regarding movement and action: from every day life to scene" that analyses gestures in performing arts. |
| June 2014 |
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Due to the 10-years anniversary of the RaAM-Conference (Researching and Applying Metaphor) in Cagliaria, Sardinia, part of our team had the possibility to present recent science projects regarding the topic "metaphors" and to exchange point of views of different scientist working in this area.. Paricipants like Ray Gibbs, Alan Cienki and Charles Foreville enriched the conference with their methodical and theoretical lectures. The talk of Cornelia Müller "Feeling for speaking: Bodily experiences ground figurative and non-figurative ways of talking about emotions" (Cornelia Müller und Benjamin Marienfeld) as well as the talk by Franziska Boll and lena Hotze "Interactive metaphor: How metaphoric meaning emerges from conversation" were numerously attended and constructive questioned. Please, take a look at the programme. |
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| May 2014 |
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Prof. Dr. Konrad Ehlich visited the university to present his guest lecture "Nonverbal Communication and Functional Pragmatic" with regards to the scientific work of the "Viadrina Gesture Center" and the "Dynamic Multimodal Communication Group". He talked about the mimics, gestures and proxemics from an speechact-theoretical point of view. Please, take a look at the press release (p. 14). |
| February 2014 |
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The second workshop "Speech and Gesture-Embodied Cultural Practices" organized by the DMC-Group and the Viadrina Gesture Center took place on the 3rd of February. International scientists of various research areas have been invited to discuss about multimodal communication. The centre of this meeting has been the work of the anthropologist and linguist Jürgen Streeck and his praxeological view on gestures.
Please, take a look at the press release (p. 11). |
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| November 2013 |
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The chairs for Language Use and Multimodal Communication and for Language Use and Applied Linguistics are jointly organising the german-polish linguistic conference "Embodiment, Cognition and Language" in Słubice. The conference is supposed to be the start of a variety of events and aims at bringing together researchers who are dealing with the usage of languages in different contexts. More information. |
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| October 2013 |
| How do linguistics and architecture fit together? The intersection is the mutual research area of metaphors. On the 24th of October, Cornelia Müller gave a lecture on "metaphors and gestures". Subsequently, there was a discussion with the architecture students on metaphors. |
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At the international seminar "new directions in metaphor research" (program) in Slagelse/Denmark, Cornelia Müller gave her presentation: "The emotional side of metaphor. Metaphors in gestures and audio-visuals" which offers insight into the emotional aspects of metaphors. |
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A successful week for MMK in Nice, as always with wit and pleasure. Exciting final exams, interesting talks with students and colleagues. |
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| June 2013 |
| Cornelia Müller was at this year's ICLC (International Cognitive Linguistic Conference) in Edmonton and, together with Terry Janzen and Barbara Schaffer, organized a "theme session" around the topic Embodiment and Grammaticalization: Perspectives from Signed Languages and Gesture Studies. As part of this, she also held a presentation with Silva Ladewig on Embodiment and Abstraction - The Experential Basis of Gesture formation. Abstract |
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On Friday, the 21 of June, Cornelia Müller held a talk about The emotional side of metaphor. Metaphors in gestures and audio-visuals. at Berkeley Gesture Center. Abstract |
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| May 2013 |
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RaAM Seminar 2013 "Metaphor, Metonymy and Emotions" in Poznan, Poland
The chair "Language Use and Multimodal Communication" from Cornelia Müller has collaborated with Hermann Kappelhoff's team from the FU Berlin to take part at the RaAm Seminar 2013. Current Research results were discussed through different presentations. |
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| Cornelia Müller held presentation at a plenary session about "The emotional side of metaphor: : Metaphors in gestures and in audiovisuals". Abstract |
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| Dorothea Böhme spoke about "The interplay of affect-modulation and multimodal metaphor in German and Polish campaign commercials". Abstract |
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| Dorothea Böhme and Franziska Boll held a presentation together about "Gesture's affective dimension and the dynamics of multimodal metaphor in face-to-face communication". Abstract |  |
