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The Semantics and Pragmatics of Everyday Gestures
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International Symposium April 23 - 26, 1998
Technical University of Berlin
Interdisciplinary Research Project:
Gesture Recognition with Sensor Gloves Free University of Berlin
Linguistics Department
Program:
| April 24 | Friday | |
|---|---|---|
| 9:30 - 9:40 | Roland Posner | Opening of the Symposium |
| Morning Session | Chair: Dagmar Schmauks | The Berlin Dictionary of Everyday Gestures |
| 9:40 - 10:00 | Roland Posner | The Semantics and Pragmatics of Berlin Everyday Gestures |
| 10:00 - 10:30 | Frank Hofmann and Günter Hommel | Gesture Recognition with the TUB-SensorGlove |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Thomas Velten and Ernst Obermeier | Micromechanical Sensors for Applications in Gesture Recognition |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:15 - 11:45 | Thomas Noll | The Structure of Dictionary Entries: Syntactics and Semantics |
| 11:45 - 12:15 | Reinhard Krüger | The Structure of Dictionary Entries: Etymology |
| 12:15 - 12:45 | Massimo Serenari | The Structure of Dictionary Entries: Field Work |
| 12:45 - 13:00 | Discussion | |
| 13:00 - 15:00 | Lunch Break | |
| Afternoon Session | Chair: Penny Boyes-Braem | The Pragmatics of Everyday Gestures |
| 15:00 - 15:40 | Cornelia Müller | On Gestures in Speech-Pauses |
| 15:40 - 16:20 | Monica Rector and Salvato Trigo | Body Signs and Gestures in Portuguese Speaking Countries |
| 16:20 - 16:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 16:30 - 17:10 | Peter Collett | Problems and Procedures in the Study of Gestures |
| 17:10 - 17:50 | Christine Kühn | Body and Soul: Gestures as Mediators in Communication |
| April 25 | Saturday | |
|---|---|---|
| Morning Session | Chair: Adam Kendon | Towards National Dictionaries of Everyday Gestures |
| 9:30 - 10:10 | Sabina Pavlova | Head and Hand Gestures of Bulgarians - Their Specific Nature and Lexicographic Presentation |
| 10:10 - 10:50 | Lluis Payrató | Notes on Lexicography and Gestures. The Case of the Repertoire of Catalan Emblems |
| 10:50 - 11:30 | Pio Enrico Ricci Bitti and Silvana Contento | Symbolic Gestures and Gesturing in Communication |
| 11:30 - 11:40 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:40 - 12:20 | Isabella Poggi and Emanuela Magno Caldognetto | The Italian Gestionary |
| 12:20 - 13:00 | Grigori Kreidlin | Types of Lexical Information and the Structure of Lexical Entries in the Dictionary of Russian Everyday Gestures |
| 13:00 - 15:00 | Lunch Break | |
| Afternoon Session | Chair: Monica Rector | Deixis in Everyday Gestures |
| 15:00 - 15:40 | Geneviève Calbris | Deixis Representative |
| 15:40 - 16:20 | Sotaro Kita and Asli Özyürek | Representing Directionality by Gestures in Narrative Discourse |
| 16:20 - 16:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 16:30 - 17:10 | Elena Pizzuto | Representational and Deictic Gestures and Words in the First Two Years of Life: Insights from the Study of Italian Children |
| 17:10 - 17:50 | Penny Boyes Braem and Thuering Braem | A Pilot Study of the Expressive Gestures Used by Orchestral Conductors |
| 20:00 - 22:00 | Concert / Opera |
| April 26 | Sunday | |
|---|---|---|
| Morning Session | Chair: Cornelia Müller | Cross-Cultural Studies in Everyday Gestures |
| 10:00 - 10:40 | Adam Kendon | Some Contrasts in Gesticulation between Speakers in Neaples and Speakers in Northampshire |
| 10:40 - 11:00 | Ragnhild Neumann (Discussant) | The Conventionalization of the Ring Gesture in German Discourse |
| 11:00 - 11:20 | Mandana Seyfeddinipur (Discussant) | Case Study on a Conventionalized Persian Gesture |
| 11:20 - 11:40 | Discussion (with Coffee) | |
| 11:40 - 12:20 | David McNeill, Susan D. Duncan & Karl-Erik McCullough | How To Go Down a Pipe: Growth Points and Catchments Cross-Linguistically |
| 12:20 - 13:00 | Michel de Fornel | The Pragmatics of Metaphoric French Gestures (tentative title) |
| 13:00 - 15:00 | Lunch Break | |
| 15:00 - 17:00 | Round Table on Forms of International Cooperation in Gesture Studies |