31.216, Confs: English; General Linguistics, Pragmatics, Psycholinguistics, Semantics, Syntax/Greece

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Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2020 15:16:18
From: Patrick Georg Grosz [p.g.grosz at iln.uio.no]
Subject: Speech-Accompanying Gestures - Current Empirical and Theoretical Advances

Speech-Accompanying Gestures - Current Empirical and Theoretical Advances 
Short Title: CreteLing-Gestures 

Date: 22-Jul-2020 - 22-Jul-2020 
Location: Rethymnon, Crete, Greece 
Contact: Patrick Georg Grosz 
Contact Email: gestures.creteling2020 at gmail.com 
Meeting URL: http://linguistics.philology.uoc.gr/cssl20/workshop1.php 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics; Semantics; Syntax 

Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Meeting Description: 

We are pleased to announce the workshop ''Speech-Accompanying Gestures -
Current Empirical and Theoretical Advances'', which will take place on July
22, 2020 in Rhetymnon, Crete (Greece). 

The workshop is organized by Patrick G. Grosz & Sarah Zobel (University of
Oslo) and it will be hosted by the University of Crete, as part of the 4th
Crete Summer School of Linguistics (CreteLing2020).

Workshop Description:

The workshop focuses on the empirical and theoretical investigation of
speech-accompanying gestures (see e.g., McNeill 1992, 2005; Kendon 1972, 2004;
Abner et al. 2015), as well as its extensions to other communicational media
(e.g., emojis, see Gawne & McCulloch 2019, Cohn et al. 2019, Bai et al. 2019).
The main research questions connected to these phenomena include the study of
their production and meaning contribution, as well as their interaction with
the linguistic signals that they accompany (both signed and spoken). In
addition, recent linguistic work discusses how these interactions should be
captured in formal linguistic models (see Lascarides & Stone 2009, Ebert &
Ebert 2014, Schlenker 2018, Esipova 2019), contributing to the emerging field
of super linguistics, which applies formal linguistic methodology to
non-standard objects of study (using 'super' in its original Latinate meaning
'beyond', see Schlenker & Patel-Grosz 2018). Although significant theoretical
and empirical advances have been made in the last decades (see Abner et al.
2015, Goldin-Meadow & Brentari 2017), only a fraction of the empirical domain
has been explored so far, and many discussions of fundamental theoretical
issues have not reached a consensus.

This workshop aims to bring together researchers working on different aspects
of the connection between linguistic and gestural communication: the empirical
study of speech-accompanying gestures (including cross-cultural and
cross-linguistic variation, e.g., Kita & Özyürek 2003, Kita 2009, Özçalışkan
et al. 2016, Ortega & Özyürek 2019), their formal analysis, as well as its
extensions. 

Speakers:

Cornelia Ebert (Goethe University of Frankfurt)
Masha Esipova (Princeton University)
Patrick Georg Grosz (University of Oslo) & Francesco Pierini (École normale
supérieure)
Aslı Özyürek (Radboud University / MPI for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen)
Philippe Schlenker (Institut Jean-Nicod, CNRS; New York University)

Selected References:

- Abner, N. et al. (2015). Gesture for Linguists: A Handy Primer, Language and
Linguistics Compass 9, 437-451.
- Bai, Q., et al. (2019). A Systematic Review of Emoji: Current Research and
Future Perspectives. Frontiers in Psychology 10.
- Ebert, C., & C. Ebert (2014) Gestures, demonstratives, and the
attributive/referential distinction. Slides from a talk given at Semantics and
Philosophy in Europe (SPE 7).
- Esipova, M. (2019). Composition and projection in speech and gesture. PhD
dissertation, New York University.
- Fenlon, J. et al. (2019). Comparing sign language and gesture: Insights from
pointing. Glossa - a journal of general linguistics 4, 2.1-26.
- Jensenius, A. R. et al. (2010). Musical gestures: concepts and methods in
research. In R. I. Godøy & M. Leman (eds.): Musical gestures: Sound, movement,
and meaning. New York: Routledge, 12-35.
- Ortega, G. & A. Özyürek (2019). Types of iconicity and combinatorial
strategies distinguish semantic categories in silent gesture across cultures.
Language and Cognition.
- Schlenker, P. (2018). Gesture projection and cosuppositions. Linguistics &
Philosophy 41, 295-365.
- Schlenker, P., & P. Patel-Grosz (2018). What is Super Linguistics?
Presentation at workshop ''Super Linguistics - an introduction'', University
of Oslo, 10th December 2018.

Call for Posters:

We invite contributions for poster presentations. Possible topics for posters
include (but are not limited to): 

- theoretical and empirical approaches to speech-accompanying gestures (in the
broadest possible sense) and (non-grammaticalized) facial expressions, both in
signed and spoken languages
- silent gestures
- gestures in non-human animals
- emojis as gestures
- musical gestures (especially sound-accompanying gestures and movements that
may or may not be communicative; see Jensenius et al. 2010)
- communicative body movement (e.g., dance; emotional display of athletes; see
Sandler 2018)
- cross-cultural and cross-linguistic variation in gestures.

Please send a 1-page abstract to gestures.creteling2020 at gmail.com by February
29, 2020. (References are not included in the page count.) Please provide the
author(s) name(s), affiliation(s) and contact details in the main body of the
email. 

Email for abstract submissions:
gestures.creteling2020 at gmail.com

Notification of acceptance will be sent out in March 2020.

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