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A Toolbox of Methods for Gesture Analysis

Gestural mimesis as ‚as-if‘ action.

Kaufhaus-Kaleidoskop: Von Paaren, Kassenbändern und Baumarktgesprächen

This spring the Viadrina Gesture Center started a new international lecture series. During this year's first hybrid event, Ryan Lepic and Corrine Occhino presented insights into their research on American Sign Language.

Dead and Alive, Sleeping and Waking Metaphors: The Spectrum of Metaphor and the Multimodality of Discourse

31.01-01.02.2024: The artists' collective Polar Publik visited the chair in order to learn and discuss about how to communicate in metaphors and gestures about the topic of ruptures (Bruch).

Cornelia Müller was invited to teach at the LOT Winter School 2024 in Tilburg.

The Linguistics Department at European University Viadrina organised a research school for PhD students. In the tradition of culturally-oriented language research at European University Viadrina, the winter school teached methods that allow to study language as an interactive, socially embedded and

As a positive effect of the online courses from the time of the coronavirus pandemic, we began to open up the research seminars internationally in 2023. As this has met with great interest in the internactional community, we have opened up the seminar further for 2024.

Doctoral student Clara Kindler-Mathôt participated in the research school on the topic of interaction research in the context of methodological and technical innovations at the Institute for German Language in Mannheim.

Doctoral student Jeanette-Christine Bauer participated with a presentation in the 8th Innsbruck Winter School "Potenziale der Angewandten Linguistik" Alles Theater!? Performativität und Inszenierung in kommunikativen Gattungen.

With this symposium, researchers worldwide are honouring the great scholar of gesture, speech and sign language research Adam Kendon, who died in 2022.

Full funding of the anthology "Un/reale Interaktionsräume. Formen sozialer Ordnung im Spektrum medienspezifischer Interaktion" in the Open Library Community Media Studies series of transcript Verlag (Open Access).

The German-Polish research project Multimodal Stancetaking: Expressive Movement and Affective Stance was invited to present results on linguistic-gestural forms of affective positioning in the context of cognitive linguistic research.

In order to present for discussion initial findings from the German-Polish research project in the context of linguistic research on multimodal positioning in political discourse Cornelia Müller organised a section at the largest international conference on language use research (IPrA).

The first meeting of all doctoral students and lecturers in the Department of Linguistics was a great success and will be continued next year.

Affective Stancetaking in Political Speeches. Some Insights in Processes of Multimodal Meaning-making in Media Specific Contexts.

By invitation of Prof. Salvador Pons Bordería, Catedrático de Lengua Española, Clara Kindler and Jana Junge presented.