While the lexical items of human spoken languages are to a large part conventionalized and hence to a large extent non-iconic, there are pockets of iconicity in human communication. We will investigate three kinds of iconicity: speech-accompanying manual gestures, ideophones such as “helter-skelter”, and prosodic modulations as in “boooring”. The central research question is the pragmatic status of such iconic meanings: Do they contribute to what is said (i.e., are they at-issue), and under which conditions can they become at-issue? If they are not at-issue, are they a type of conventional implicature, or rather a type of presupposition? Existing proposals for iconic gestures as co-suppositions or as supplements similar to appositive relative clauses, will be tested experimentally for gestures and for the other two types of iconic meaning. We will investigate the precise alignment of iconic manual gestures and the oral speech expressions that they affect, how gestures are connected with ideophones and prosodic modulations, and the way components of iconic meaning contribute to the overall meaning, e.g., whether they project under semantic operators, or whether and how they can be addressed directly in communication. We will investigate the multimodal aspects of communication by means of existing corpora, production experiments with synchronized acoustic, video and motion capture data as well as audiovisual perception experiments and behavioral measures of cognitive processing (reaction times). The goal is to gain a better understanding of the often-neglected iconic aspects of meaning in human communication, and the interplay of various types of meanings.
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Ćwiek, Aleksandra 30.10.2021
Ćwiek, Aleksandra 14.10.2021
Cwiek, Aleksandra 30.08.2021 - 03.09.2021
Ćwiek, Aleksandra 20.04.2021
Ćwiek, Aleksandra 25.02.2021
Ćwiek, Aleksandra & Susanne Fuchs 14.12.2020 - 18.12.2020
Ćwiek, Aleksandra, Susanne Fuchs, Marcus Perlman & Bodo Winter 27.11.2020
Żygis, Marzena & Susanne Fuchs 08.04.2020 - 20.04.2020
Conference 20.11.2019
Ćwiek, Aleksandra, Susanne Fuchs, Cornelia Ebert, Manfred Krifka, Christoph Draxler, Bodo Winter & Marcus Perlman 20.11.2019 - 21.11.2019
Barnes, Kathryn & Cornelia Ebert 20.11.2019 - 21.11.2019
Ćwiek, Aleksandra, Christoph Draxler, Susanne Fuchs, Bodo Winter, & Marcus Perlman 06.11.2019
Żygis, Marzena, Susanne Fuchs & Katarzyna Stoltmann 15.10.2019
Ebert, Cornelia, Christian Ebert & Robin Hörnig 04.09.2019 - 07.09.2019
Ćwiek, Aleksandra, Christoph Draxler, Susanne Fuchs, Shigeto Kawahara, Bodo Winter & Marcus Perlman 06.08.2019 - 11.08.2019
Teaching 05.08.2019 - 16.08.2019
Ćwiek, Aleksandra & Susanne Fuchs 24.07.2019-27.07.2019
Ćwiek, Aleksandra, Christoph Draxler, Susanne Fuchs, Bodo Winter, Shigeto Kawahara & Marcus Perlman 03.05.2019-05.05.2019
Workshop/AG 11.03.2019 – 12.03.2019
Ćwiek, Aleksandra, Christoph Draxler, Susanne Fuchs, Bodo Winter & Marcus Perlman 06.03.2019 – 08.03.2019
Workshop/AG 06.03.2019 - 08.03.2019
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Ebert, Cornelia, Christian Ebert & Robin Hörnig 03.09.2018 - 06.09.2018
Ćwiek, Aleksandra 02.07.2018
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Żygis, Marzena, Susanne Fuchs & Katarzyna Stoltmann 19.06.2018 - 22.06.2018
Ebert, Cornelia 15.06.2018
Fuchs, Susanne, Cornelia Ebert, Egor Savin & Manfred Krifka 11.06.2018 - 12.06.2018
Workshop/AG 14.05.2018 – 15.05.2018
Ćwiek, Aleksandra, Susanne Fuchs, Egor Savin, Cornelia Ebert & Manfred Krifka 14.05.2018 - 15.05.2018
Ebert, Cornelia, Aleksandra Ćwiek, Susanne Fuchs & Manfred Krifka 14.05.2018 - 15.05.2018
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Fuchs, Susanne, Egor Savin, Cornelia Ebert, Uwe D. Reichel & Manfred Krifka 27.09.2017 - 28.09.2017
Ebert, Cornelia, Aleksandra Ćwiek, Susanne Fuchs & Manfred Krifka 18.09.2017 - 19.09.2017
Żygis, Marzena, Susanne Fuchs & Katarzyna Stoltmann 25.08.2017 - 27.08.2017