workshop on gestures

Tue Feb 5 08:17:21 UTC 2008

30th Annual Convention of the German Society of Linguistics
Bamberg (27.-29.2.2008)

Workshop 11
Gestures: A comparison of signed and spoken languages
Ulrike Wrobel, Cornelia Mueller, Jens Hessmann

http://www.uni-bamberg.de/fakultaeten/guk/tagungen/dgfs2008

					Programme

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

14:00-14:30 Konrad Ehlich (München/ Berlin, Germany)
		    Nonverbal – international? Oder von der vermeintlichen 
Universalität der Gestik und ihren universal-theoretischen Gründen

14:30-15:00 Adam Kendon (Philadelphia, Naples, USA/ Italy)
                       Some reflections on ‘gesture’ and ‘sign’

15:00-15:30 Gisela Fehrmann (University of Cologne, Germany)
                       Shifters: The gestural dimension of symbolic 
reference in German Sign language

15:30-16:00 Jennie Pyers (Wellesley College, Boston, USA), Pamela 
Perniss (MPI for Psycholinguistics and Radboud University Nijmegen, The 
		    Netherlands), Karen Emmorey (San Diego State University, San 
Diego, USA)
                      Viewpoint in the visual-spatial modality

16:00-16:30 coffee break

16:30-17:00 Pamela Perniss, Asli Özyürek (MPI for Psycholinguistics and 
Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
                      A cross-linguistic comparison of co-speech 
gesture and sign: Constraints on the visual-spatial modality in 
representations of motion 		   events

17:00-17:30 Mieke Van Herreweghe (Ghent University, Belgium), Myriam 
Vermeerbergen (Research Foundation – Flanders/ Universiteit van 		    
Amsterdam/ University of the Free State, Belgium/ The Netherlands)
                      Referent tracking in two unrelated sign languages 
and in home systems

17:30-18:00 David Quinto-Pozos (University of Illinois at 
Urbana-Champaign, USA), Fey Parrill (Case Western Reserve University, 
USA)
                       Enactment as a communicative strategy: A 
comparison between English co-speech gesture and American Sign Language

18:00-18:30 Renate Fischer/ Simon Kollien (University of Hamburg, 
Germany)
                       Sound symbolism in GSL?

Thursday, February 28, 2008

09:00-09:30 Sherman Wilcox (University of New Mexico, USA)
                       Two Routes from Gesture to Language

09:30-10:00 Ronnie B. Wilbur, Evguenia Malaia (Purdue University, Sign 
Language Linguistics Research Laboratory, USA)
                        From Encyclopedic Semantics to Grammatical 
Aspects: Converging Evidence From ASL and Co-Speech Gestures

10:00-10:30 Cornelia Mueller (European University Viadrina, Germany)
                       Creating gestures and signs: gestural modes of 
representation and classifiers in sign-languages

10:30-11:00 Dorothea Cogill-Koez (Language and Cognition Research 
Centre University of New England, Australia)
                       Reanalysing gesture in terms of channel, 
representational principle, and structural level: A common ground 
beneath signed and spoken 		    communication systems?

11:00-11:30 coffee break

11:30-12:00 Christian Rathmann (University of Bristol, England)
                       Iconicity, Lexicalization and Grammaticization: 
Implications for Sign vs. Gesture

12:00-12:30 Jana Bressem, Silva Ladewig (VW-Project “Towards a Grammar 
of Gesture“, European University Viadrina, Germany)
                       Discovering structures in gestures on the basis 
of the four parameters of Sign Language

12:30-13:00 Gaurav Mathur (Gallaudet University Washington D.C., USA)
                       Does gesture have phonology? Insights from 
signed languages

Friday, February 29, 2008

09:00-09:30 Susanne Tag (VW-Project “Towards a Grammar of Gesture“, 
European University Viadrina, Germany)
                       Simultaneity in Co-speech Gestures

09:30-10:00 Paula Marentette, Elena Nicoladis (University of Alberta, 
Canada)
                       Iconicity and simultaneity in the 
gesture-language link: A comparison of ASL signers and English speakers

10:00-10:30 Myriam Vermeerbergen (Research Foundation – Flanders/ 
Universiteit van Amsterdam/ University of the Free State, Belgium/ The 
		    Netherlands), Eline Demey (Ghent University, Belgium)
                       Sign + Gesture = Speech + Gesture? Comparing 
Aspects of Simultaneity in Flemish Sign Language to Instances of 
Concurrent Speech 		    and Gesture

10:30-11:00 coffee break

11:00-11:30 Phyllis Perrin Wilcox (University of New Mexico, USA)
                       Substantiation of Metonymy in American Sign 
Language

11:30-12:00 Irene Mittelberg (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The 
Netherlands)
                       Contiguity relationships within and across 
semiotic modes: A Jakobsonian perspective on metonymy
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<bigger>30th Annual Convention of the German Society of Linguistics</bigger>

Bamberg (27.-29.2.2008)

Workshop 11

Gestures: A comparison of signed and spoken languages 

Ulrike Wrobel, Cornelia Mueller, Jens Hessmann

<italic>http://www.uni-bamberg.de/fakultaeten/guk/tagungen/dgfs2008</italic>

 <bigger>

					Programme</bigger>

Wednesday, February 27, 2008

14:00-14:30 Konrad Ehlich (München/ Berlin, Germany)

		    <italic>Nonverbal – international? Oder von der vermeintlichen
Universalität der Gestik und ihren universal-theoretischen Gründen

</italic>

14:30-15:00 Adam Kendon (Philadelphia, Naples, USA/ Italy)

                       <italic>Some reflections on ‘gesture’ and ‘sign’</italic>

15:00-15:30 Gisela Fehrmann (University of Cologne, Germany)

                       <italic>Shifters: The gestural dimension of
symbolic reference in German Sign language </italic>

15:30-16:00 Jennie Pyers (Wellesley College, Boston, USA), Pamela
Perniss (MPI for Psycholinguistics and Radboud University Nijmegen,
The 		    Netherlands), Karen Emmorey (San Diego State University, San
Diego, USA)

                     <italic> Viewpoint in the visual-spatial
modalit</italic>y

16:00-16:30 coffee break

16:30-17:00 Pamela Perniss, Asli Özyürek (MPI for Psycholinguistics
and Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands)

                      <italic>A cross-linguistic comparison of
co-speech gesture and sign: Constraints on the visual-spatial modality
in representations of motion 		   events</italic>

17:00-17:30 Mieke Van Herreweghe (Ghent University, Belgium), Myriam
Vermeerbergen (Research Foundation – Flanders/ Universiteit van 		   
Amsterdam/ University of the Free State, Belgium/ The Netherlands)

                     <italic> Referent tracking in two unrelated sign
languages and in home systems

</italic>

17:30-18:00 David Quinto-Pozos (University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, USA), Fey Parrill (Case Western Reserve University,
USA)

                      <italic> Enactment as a communicative strategy:
A comparison between English co-speech gesture and American Sign
Language</italic>

18:00-18:30 Renate Fischer/ Simon Kollien (University of Hamburg,
Germany)

                       <italic>Sound symbolism in GSL?

</italic>

Thursday, February 28, 2008

09:00-09:30 Sherman Wilcox (University of New Mexico, USA)

                       <italic>Two Routes from Gesture to Language</italic>

09:30-10:00 Ronnie B. Wilbur, Evguenia Malaia (Purdue University, Sign
Language Linguistics Research Laboratory, USA)

                       <italic>From Encyclopedic Semantics to
Grammatical Aspects: Converging Evidence From ASL and Co-Speech
Gestures</italic>

10:00-10:30 Cornelia Mueller (European University Viadrina, Germany)

                      <italic> Creating gestures and signs: gestural
modes of representation and classifiers in sign-languages</italic>

10:30-11:00 Dorothea Cogill-Koez (Language and Cognition Research
Centre University of New England, Australia)

                       <italic>Reanalysing gesture in terms of
channel, representational principle, and structural level: A common
ground beneath signed and spoken 		    communication systems?</italic>

11:00-11:30 coffee break

11:30-12:00 Christian Rathmann (University of Bristol, England)

                      <italic> Iconicity, Lexicalization and
Grammaticization: Implications for Sign vs. Gesture</italic> 

12:00-12:30 Jana Bressem, Silva Ladewig (VW-Project “Towards a Grammar
of Gesture“, European University Viadrina, Germany)

                       <italic>Discovering structures in gestures on
the basis of the four parameters of Sign Language</italic>

12:30-13:00 Gaurav Mathur (Gallaudet University Washington D.C., USA)

                       <italic>Does gesture have phonology? Insights
from signed languages</italic>

Friday, February 29, 2008

09:00-09:30 Susanne Tag (VW-Project “Towards a Grammar of Gesture“,
European University Viadrina, Germany)

                     <italic>  Simultaneity in Co-speech Gestures</italic>

09:30-10:00 Paula Marentette, Elena Nicoladis (University of Alberta,
Canada)

                       <italic>Iconicity and simultaneity in the
gesture-language link: A comparison of ASL signers and English speakers</italic>

10:00-10:30 Myriam Vermeerbergen (Research Foundation – Flanders/
Universiteit van Amsterdam/ University of the Free State, Belgium/ The
		    Netherlands), Eline Demey (Ghent University, Belgium)

                       <italic>Sign + Gesture = Speech + Gesture?
Comparing Aspects of Simultaneity in Flemish Sign Language to
Instances of Concurrent Speech 		    and Gesture</italic>

10:30-11:00 coffee break

11:00-11:30 Phyllis Perrin Wilcox (University of New Mexico, USA)

                       <italic>Substantiation of Metonymy in American
Sign Language</italic>

11:30-12:00 Irene Mittelberg (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The
Netherlands)

                      <italic> Contiguity relationships within and
across semiotic modes: A Jakobsonian perspective on metonymy</italic>

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