32.2126, Calls: Cog Sci, Ling Theories, Psycholing, Semantics, Typology/Germany

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Subject: 32.2126, Calls: Cog Sci, Ling Theories, Psycholing, Semantics, Typology/Germany

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Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2021 13:43:26
From: Markus Steinbach [msteinb at gwdg.de]
Subject: Visual Communication. New Theoretical and Empirical Developments

 
Full Title: Visual Communication. New Theoretical and Empirical Developments 
Short Title: ViCom2022 

Date: 23-Feb-2022 - 25-Feb-2022
Location: Tuebingen, Germany 
Contact Person: Markus Steinbach
Meeting Email: vicom2022 at easychair.org
Web Site: https://vicom.info/news-and-events/workshop-visual-communication-new-theoretical-and-empirical-developments/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Linguistic Theories; Psycholinguistics; Semantics; Typology 

Call Deadline: 01-Sep-2021 

Meeting Description:

Workshop at the Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS) 2022
Location: University of Tübingen
Date: February 23-25, 2022

Invited presenters: 
Ellen Fricke (TU Chemnitz)
Okan Kubus (Hochschule Magdeburg-Stendal)
Jeremy Kuhn (Institut Jean Nicod, CNRS-EHESS-ENS)

Workshop organizers: 
Cornelia Ebert
Markus Steinbach
Clemens Steiner-Mayr

Formal linguistics traditionally has a strong focus on the analysis of the
form and meaning of spoken and written language. In this context, various
linguistic theories have been developed to map quite different natural
language phenomena to theoretical models via well-established formal tools.
These formal tools have also been applied to the analysis of sign languages.
For the most part, however, theories developed for the analysis of spoken
languages were only slightly modified to account for the specific properties
of the visual-gestural modality of sign languages. Likewise, formal analyses
of spoken language have long neglected the multimodality of natural
face-to-face communication and the impact of visual means such as manual and
non-manual co-speech gestures on the meaning and use of utterances. The
analysis of sign languages and co-speech gestures revealed that visual
communication systems differ in several aspects from spoken language. For
example, sign languages and gestures have iconic properties, i.e. they map
aspects from the real world iconically to the visual space. In addition, in
sign and spoken languages, gestures can be used to demonstrate (aspects of)
actions and events visually. Consequently, the analysis of multimodal
communication including the visual modality requires modified or even new
formal tools, which will also incorporate insights from cognitive linguistics
and semiotics.


Call for Papers: 

The focus of this workshop will be on recent theoretical and empirical
advances in different aspects of multi-modal communication. The workshop aims
at bringing together scholars interested in empirical studies of and
linguistic theories accounting for different aspects of visual communication
in spoken and sign languages. For this, the workshop is attractive to
theoretical linguists, corpus linguists, psycholinguists, typologists,
semioticists, and sign language linguists. Submissions on but not limited to
the following topics are invited:
- new formal semantic and pragmatic approaches to multimodal communication and
visual phenomena
- new cognitive semantic and pragmatic approaches to multimodal communication
and visual phenomena
- new empirical and experimental studies on the syntactic and semantic
interaction of language and gesture in both linguistic modalities, i.e. spoken
and sign languages
- new corpus-based studies on the interaction of gesture with spoken and sign
languages
- new empirical studies on the acquisition of the form and meaning of gestures
- new typological studies on the use of gestures in different sign and spoken
languages
- new typological studies on the impact of visual iconicity on spoken and sign
languages

We invite submissions for 30 minutes (20+10) presentations. Abstract must not
be longer than two pages (including tables, examples, and references), in
12-point type, single-line spacing and 2,5 cm margins. Abstracts should be
submitted through the Vicom 2022 EasyChair web page:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vicom2022

Please note that people are not supposed to present in more than one workshop
at the DGfS annual meeting. If you get accepted in more than one workshop,
please inform the organizers of both workshops.

A limited number of travel grants of up to 500 euro each are available for
accepted contributions by DGfS members without/with low income. 

The languages of the workshop are English and ASL/IS. Interpretation between
English and ASL/IS will be provided.

Important Dates: 
September 1, 2021: Deadline of abstract submission
September 15, 2021: Notification of acceptance
October 15, 2021: Provisional program
February 23-25, 2022: 44th Annual Conference of the German Linguistic Society
(DGfS) in Tübingen




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