36.1439, Confs: LingCologne 2025 (Germany)

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Subject: 36.1439, Confs: LingCologne 2025 (Germany)

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Date: 02-May-2025
From: Ivan Kapitonov [i.kapitonov at uni-koeln.de]
Subject: LingCologne 2025


LingCologne 2025

Date: 22-May-2025 - 23-May-2025
Location: Cologne, Germany
Contact: Tobias-Alexander Herrmann
Contact Email: lingcologne-2025 at uni-koeln.de

Program is now online! https://lingcologne.uni-koeln.de/program
In both signed and spoken conversations, recipients continuously
provide multimodal feedback to the signer or speaker. This feedback
may take the form of manual signs, such as yes, spoken forms like mm
or yeah, hand gestures, or non-manual visual cues such as head nods,
eyebrow movements, or smiles. These feedback signals serve several
important conversational functions: they can demonstrate the
recipient’s active engagement, comprehension of the preceding
utterance, readiness to continue the conversation, offer an evaluation
of the content presented, express affiliation with the speaker or
signer, and signal the presence or absence of conversational
breakdowns.
Given its criticality, multimodal feedback provides a valuable lens
through which to examine the mechanisms underlying human interaction.
It enables researchers to explore how communicative dynamics are
influenced by variations across individuals, languages, and
conversational contexts. However, much remains to be understood about
the interconnections between different interactional mechanisms, such
as backchannels, repairs, or alignment, both within and between
conversational turns.
LingCologne 2025 will focus on these critical mechanisms, offering a
platform for cutting-edge research into the diverse dimensions of
feedback. The conference aims to uncover connections across various
theoretical and applied frameworks, particularly emphasizing new
insights into the multimodal cues—including vocal, manual, and
non-manual signals—used by speakers and signers alike. To guide these
discussions, four key themes related to feedback have been identified:
Backchannels, Alignment, Repair, and Turns.
LingCologne 2025 will feature presentations by eight of the world’s
leading researchers in these themes, promoting a collaborative and
interdisciplinary approach to understanding the role of feedback in
language. We invite scholars from linguistics, cognitive science,
communication studies, and related fields to join us in Cologne to
deepen our collective understanding of conversational feedback and its
profound impact on human communication.
Keynote presenters:
- Rod Gardner (The University of Queensland, Australia)
- Nivja de Jong (University of Leiden, The Netherlands)
- Kristian Skedsmo (Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway)
- Martin Pickering (The University of Edinburgh, UK) and Simon Garrod
(The University of Glasgow, UK)
- Eve Clark (Stanford University, USA)
- Johanna Mesch (Stockholm University, Sweden)
- JP de Ruiter (Tufts University, USA)
Full program, including abstracts of all keynote talks and posters is
online at:
https://lingcologne.uni-koeln.de/program
Registration, conference languages and fees:
Registration is still open at:
https://lingcologne.uni-koeln.de/registration
The conference languages are English and International Sign. We will
have interpreters available throughout the event.
There is no registration fee for this event.
Conference dates:
- Pre-conference workshops: 21 May 2025,
https://lingcologne.uni-koeln.de/satellite-pre-conference-workshops
- Conference: 22-23 May 2025
Contact information:
For questions, please contact us at lingcologne-2025 at uni-koeln.de



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