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talks (selection)




2012
Forming multimodal utterances: Semantic and syntactic integration of gestures into speech
23.- 24. March, Workshop Multimodality and Corpus, Paris zusammen mit Silva H. Ladewig

Gesture, speech, and embodied constructions
10.-12. July, 4th conference of the UK-CLA, London, England


2011 Image-schemas, metonymy, and metaphor in gestural negation
18. October, lecture series "Os Sentidos da Gestualidade", Universidade de Sao Paulo, Brazil

From embodied experience to grammatical notion: image-schemas, metonymy, and metaphor in gestural negation
26.-28. October, Fourth International Conference on "Metaphor in Language and Thought", Porto Alegre, Brazil together with Cornelia Müller and Ellen Fricke


 2010 Pounding the verbal utterance: forms and functions of beats
25. - 30. July ISGS 2010, Frankfurt (Oder)

Was unser Körper weiß - Vermittlung von Wissen durch Gesten
09. July, Symposium "Das Wechselspiel der Wissensformen", TU-Berlin


2009 Recurrent gestures: Protoforms of linguistic structures in gestures    
24. - 26. September, GESPIN together with Cornelia Müller and Ellen Fricke
Theme Session: "Towards a grammar of gesture" (Organizers: Jana Bressem, Silva Ladewig, Cornelia Müller, Susanne Tag)


2008

Gestural communication in apes - a comparative approach        
09. - 12. October, DGS, Stuttgart, together with Katja Liebal    

Clusters of image schematic patterns in coverbal gestures              
25. - 27. September 2008, GCLA, Leipzig
Theme Session "Motivation in gesture: Image and motor schemas and their metaphorical extensions" (Organizers: Irene Mittelberg, Cornelia Müller)    

Discovering structures in gestures on the basis of the four parameters of sign language
27. - 29. February, DGfS, Bamberg together with Silva H. Ladewig   


2007 Systematic distribution of form features in coverbal gestures-applying corpus linguistics in gesture research   
8. - 13. July,  IPrA, Göteborg, Schweden    


2006 Gestik als Medium: Zur Struktur und Bedeutung redebegleitender Gesten
July Universität Potsdam



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