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Cornelia Müller : Linguistin

Forschungsprojekte

1 Towards a Grammar of Gesture: Evolution, Brain, Linguistic Structures

Laufendes Forschungsprojekt, gefördert von der Volkswagen-Stiftung im Rahmen des Programs „Schlüsselthemen der Geisteswissenschaften“ ( togog, FU Gesture Project):

Methodological prerequisites
> Preparing a cross-disciplinary system for the notation of gestures (Togog team)
> Developing linguistic methods of gesture analysis (Müller, Fricke, Mittelberg)

Semantics: Specifying principles of meaning creation in gestures
> P1 Gestural modes of representation in human and non-human primates (Müller, Fricke, Liebal, Mittelberg, Ladewig, Teßendorf)
> P2 Bodily contact and pragmatic function: Action, ritualization, and abstraction in human and non-human primates (Fricke, Liebal, Schneider)
> P3 Neuropsychology of gestural modes of representation: Hemispheric specialization in the production of pantomime gestures and actual object use - a functional MRI study (Lausberg, Holle, Heekeren, Kazzer, and Wartenburger)
> P4 Structures of meaning and reference: Referential gestures: how the concrete becomes abstract (Müller, Ladewig, Teßendorf, and Marienfeld)

Aspects of Form: forms, meaning, and the integration of gestures with language
> P5 Simultaneous structures of gestures in human and non-human primates
a. Simultaneous structures of gestures in humans: Recurrent gestures (and gesture families) - proto-forms of linguistic structures in gestures (Müller, Fricke, Jana Bressem)
b. Simultaneous structures of gestures in non-humans: Recurrent gestures and proto-forms of gesture families (Liebal, Müller, Bressem, Fatfouta-Hanka)
c. Acquisition of gestures in great apes (Schneider and Liebal
> P6 Linear and simultaneous forms of gestural combinations in human and non-human primates
a. Linear and simultaneous forms of gestural combination in humans (Müller, Fricke, Tag)
b. Linear and simultaneous forms of gestural combination in non-humans (Liebal, Müller, Tempelmann, and Tag)
> P7 Neuropsychology of aspects of form: Gesture production in the right and left hemispheres during the narration of animated cartoons - An investigation of patients with right and left hemisphere damage (Lausberg, Hogrefe, and Goldenberg)

Integration of gestures with speech
> P8 Foundations of a grammar of gesture (including multimodal attribution and predication) (Fricke)
> P9 Syntactic disambiguation by gesture (Holle, J. Obleser, S.A. Rüschemeyer, S.A., and T.C. Gunter)


2 Gesture as Medium of Expression: Meaning und Structures of Co-Speech Gestures

Aktuelles Buchprojekt ( togog, FU Gesture Project).


3 A Field Guide to Gesture: Transcription, Analysis, Coding

Aktuelles Buchprojekt. In Kooperation mit Ellen Fricke und Irene Mittelberg.


4 Sprache und Gestik der Alexithymie.

Forschungsprojekt gemeinsam mit Gisela Klann-Delius im Rahmen des Clusters of Excellence "Languages of Emotion"