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Workshop: Visual Communication. New Theoretical and Empirical Developments
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)
Meeting description
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.
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
The languages of the workshop are English and ASL/IS. Interpretation between English and ASL/IS will be provided.
Abstract submission
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:
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.
Deadline for abstract submission: September 1, 2021
Notification: September 15, 2021
Workshop organizers
Cornelia Ebert (University of Frankfurt/Main)
Markus Steinbach (University of Goettingen)
Clemens Steiner-Mayr (University of Goettingen)
Contact
Website
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
