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Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2016 15:44:05
From: Jana Bressem [jana.bressem at phil.tu-chemnitz.de]
Subject: Object Use as Semiotic Process in ''Real'' and Virtual Worlds: How Actions Turn into Gestures

 
Full Title: Object Use as Semiotic Process in "Real" and Virtual Worlds: How Actions Turn into Gestures 

Date: 12-Sep-2017 - 16-Sep-2017
Location: Passau, Germany 
Contact Person: Jana Bressem
Meeting Email: jana.bressem at phil.tu-chemnitz.de

Linguistic Field(s): Linguistic Theories; Pragmatics 

Call Deadline: 18-Nov-2016 

Meeting Description:

This panel discusses how actions turn into gestures and how different forms of
object use and their levels of abstraction may be analyzed as semiotic
processes from various disciplinary perspectives. Starting with questions from
the interdisciplinary research project MANUACT (www.manuact.org, project
leader: Ellen Fricke) that is funded by the BMBF from 2015 until 2018, first
results of the project along with other relevant contributions on the topic
will be presented in the panel.

In contrast to natural objects, cultural ones are not just discovered but are
subject to adaptive processes, in which the human hand plays a crucial role.
Objects and hands develop against each other, functions of the hand are
expanded through tools or replaced in manual or machine production processes.
Contrary, in product design objects are made manageable for the user and
traced back to elementary basic actions as recently for the development of
touch-sensitive surfaces of computers and mobile devices, for instance. Such
basic actions are linguistically preserved in the lexical semantics of motion
and action verbs and in typified gestures describing actions. The demarcation
of gestures and actions and possible intermediate stages poses a particular
problem for different scientific contexts: In work-studies, physical
manipulation of virtual objects is considered gestural. From a
linguistic-semiotic perspective such movements of the hands are usually
understood as actions. New technologies and interfaces refuse traditional
classifications and pose a particular challenge for semiotic analyses. For the
further discussion within the panel, two central questions are suggested: 

1. To which extent are specific semiotic approaches suited to capture the
spectrum of gesture and object use in face-to-face communication and
furthermore in the context of new technologies, as for instance, in the
contact- free object manipulation with LEAP MOTION or the behavior of avatars
in virtual worlds? 
2. What effects result from the consideration of such technologies for
existing concepts of “embodiment” in Cognitive Linguistics and Semiotics that
have been developed based on face-to-face communication?



Call for Papers:

For the 15th International Conference 2017: ''Borders and Boundaries. Contact
– Communication – Contrast'' (Passau, 12-16 September 2017), the sections
‘linguistics’ (Jana Bressem, Ellen Fricke and Roland Posner) and ‘bodily
semiotics’ (Irene Mittelberg) invite submissions to the panel.

Information on the organization and the course of the event:

The conference takes place from September 12-16 at the University Passau
(Germany). Please send your abstract ideally as a Word Document (unformatted
as far as possible) to Dr. Jana Bressem (jana.bressem at phil.tu-chemnitz.de). 

Deadline for abstracts is November 18, 2016. Your abstract should contain the
following information: 

- Title of the talk
- Name of the author
- Description of the talk (max. 300 words)
- Home institution
- E-Mail address
- Short vita (as running text)
- Up to five relevant publications.

Talks should not exceed more than 20 minutes. A publication of selected talks
is planned.

Contact information:

For the panel ''Object use as semiotic process in ''real'' and virtual worlds:
How actions turn into gestures'' and submission of abstracts: Dr. Jana Bressem
(jana.bressem at phil.tu-chemnitz.de)




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