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.
Cornelia Müller’s workshop provides advanced training in
methodological approaches for analyzing
speech-accompanying gestures. The first part of
the workshop gives a theoretical introduction to her
work on a grammar of gesture. The second part is a
hands-on tutorial on coding the physical features of
gestures. 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.
Mandana Seyfeddinipur's workshop (Dec.1,2 2006) focused on coding
how gestures structurally unfold over time in relation
to speech “Gesture structure: phases, phrases and
units”.
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.
Gesture Focus
Group Speakers’ Series:
“Forms
and meanings of gestures: A linguistic approach to the
description and analysis of gestures.”
Guest speaker: Cornelia Müller,
European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Germany
Location: Stony Brook University,
Department of Psychology, A 113
Date: 03/02/07-
03/03/07
Cornelia Müller is a Full Professor of Applied Linguistics at the
European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany.
Prior to her position in Frankfurt, she worked as
Assistant Professor at the Free University Berlin, where
she founded the Berlin Gesture Center, an
interdisciplinary institute for gesture studies.
Cornelia Müller is also a founding member of the
International Society of Gesture Studies (ISGS).
Together with Adam Kendon, she is the editor of the
journal Gesture
(John Benjamins). Her research approaches the analysis
of gesture from a linguistic perspective and
investigates cross-cultural differences in gesture use,
aspects of iconicity in gestures, and multimodal
metaphors. This year, she received a grant from the
German Volkswagen Foundation for an interdisciplinary
project on developing the foundations of a grammar of
gesture “Towards a grammar of gesture: evolution, brain,
and linguistic structures”.
Synopsis
Friday, March 2nd 2007
9:00- 9:30
Welcome
Session 1: Theory
9:30 -10:30
Towards a grammar of gestures: Evolution, brain,
and linguistic structures.—bringing together linguistic,
primatological, and neurological approaches to gesture
analysis.
10:30- 11:00
Coffee
Break
11:00 -12:00
How hands turn into gestures: modes of gestural
representation
12:00- 1:00
Lunch Break
1:00- 2: 00
Forms and meanings of
gestures: A linguistic approach to the description and
analysis of gestures.
Session 2: Methods
2:00- 3:00
General principles of gesture annotation.
3:00- 3:30
Coffee
Break
3:30- 4:30
Coding form features: simultaneous and linear
structures
4:30- 5:30
Reconstructing the meaning of performative
(recurrent) and referential (spontaneous)
gestures in context (including metaphoric
gestures).
5:30- 6:00
Summary & Discussion
Evening Program
(participation optional)
6: 00
Dinner at
the Curry Club
8:00
“When the Sea Dies: An Heroic Quest”
Origins and Destinies Dance/Theater
Company
Directed by Amy Yopp Sullivan
Staller Center Theater 1
(please purchase your ticket at Box
Office: 631-632-ARTS)
Saturday, March 3rd
2007
Session 3: Student Presentations
10:30-11:00
Coffee &
Bagels
10:00- 11:00
The Migration of Thought and Action in the
Choreographic Process.
Amy Sullivan, Department of Theater
Arts, Stony Brook University.
12:00-1:00
From Speaker to Speaker: Repeated Gestures across
Dyads.
Anna Kuhlen, Department of
Psychology, Stony Brook University.
1:00-1:30
Coffee &
Bagels
1:30- 2:30
Reproducing Natural Behaviors in Conversational
Animation.
Matthew Stone & Insuk Oh, Department
of Computer Science, Rutgers University.
2:30-3:
30
-TBA-
Georgios Tsrdanelis, Department of
Linguistics/Psychology, Stony Brook University
3:30-4:
30
Given-new Attenuation Effects in Speech and
Gesture Production.
Alexia Galati, Department of
Psychology, Stony Brook University
Saturday, March 3rd 2007
Session 3: Student Presentations
10:00- 11:00 Student Presentation I
11:00- 11:30 Coffee Break
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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