Description of events
The
Gesture Focus Group Speakers’ Series brings
distinguished researchers from the field of gesture
studies to the Stony Brook University community. The
Speakers’ Series is intended to expose interested
students to the research and methodological techniques
of international experts of the field through intensive
workshops. These workshops are intended to provide
advanced training for students already involved in
gesture-related research projects and to incite the
interest and provide theoretical and methodological
foundations to those new to the field.
The
first two events of the Speakers’ Series are aimed at
introducing students to different methodological
approaches for analyzing speech-accompanying gestures.
Mandana Seyfeddinipur’s workshop provides advanced
training in methodological approaches for analyzing
speech-accompanying gestures. The first part of the
workshop gives a theoretical introduction to the field
of gesture studies and specifically addresses issues of
speech and gesture disfluencies. The second part is a
hands-on tutorial on how gestures structurally unfold
over time in relation to speech. The third part gives
students the opportunity to practice coding gesture data
from their corpora, to present their current projects,
and to exchange ideas about future research directions.
Cornelia Müller’s workshop (March 2,3 2007) will focus on coding the physical
features of gestures’ form “Forms and
meanings of gestures: a linguistic approach to the
description and analysis of gestures."
We hope that we will continue to recruit successfully
new speakers for the Gesture Focus Group Speakers’
Series so that a continued dialog is established between
young Stony Brook researchers and the broader gesture
community.
Speakers’ Series Event 1: “Gesture Coding I:
Gesture structure: phases, phrases and units”
Guest speaker: Mandana
Seyfeddinipur, Stanford University
Date: 12/01/06- 12/02/06
Mandana
Seyfeddinipur studied Linguistics, German Studies,
Persian Studies and German as a Foreign Language at the
Free University Berlin, Germany. For her graduate
studies she joined the Max Planck Institute for
Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, Netherlands. Her
dissertation investigates disfluencies in speech and
gesture. Currently, she is working with Professor
Herbert Clark at Stanford University, California. Her
postdoctoral work is sponsored by the Marie Curie
Fellowship from the European Commission.
Synopsis of Program
Friday, December 1st, 2006
9:00- 9:30 Welcome
Session 1: Theory
9:30 -10:30 From discourse structure to speech act:
A case study of a Persian gesture.
10:30- 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00- 12:00 Gesture as an indicator for an upcoming
speech disfluencies.
12:00- 1:00 Lunch Break
1:00- 2:00 Repair at hand-
fixing up gestures for recipients.
Session 2: Methods
2:00- 3:00 Gesture
structure: phases, phrases and units
3:00- 4:00 Gesture phases
frame-by-frame: From segmentation to phrase
identification
4:00- 4:30 Coffee Break
4:00- 5:30 Hands-on Gesture
Phase Coding: Examples from my/ your corpus
5:30- 6:00 Discussion &
Summary
Dinner at the Curry Club (participation optional)
Saturday, December 2nd, 2006
9:00- 10:00 Gesture coding and
analysis for quantitative research: Annotation tools and
database management
10:00- 10:30 Coffee Break
Session 3: Student Presentations
10:30- 11:30 Student
Presentation I
11:30- 12:30 Student
Presentation II
12:30- 1:30 Lunch
1:30- 2:30 Student
Presentation III
(possibly more student
presentations)
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