From a.cienki at let.vu.nl Mon Jan 19 14:57:43 2009 From: a.cienki at let.vu.nl (Cienki, A.) Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2009 23:57:43 +0100 Subject: [isgs] Workshop on Metaphor, Metonymy, and Multimodality Message-ID: Researching and Applying Metaphor (RaAM) 2009 Workshop: Metaphor, Metonymy & Multimodality (4-5 June 2009, Amsterdam) The Department of Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) in the Netherlands, in cooperation with its co-sponsors, including ? The Faculty of Arts of VU University/Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam ? The Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA/Universiteit van Amsterdam) ? John Benjamins Publishing Company is proud to host the RaAM 2009 Workshop on the topic of Metaphor, Metonymy & Multimodality. Background: The analysis of metaphor in different modalities, not just in written texts, elucidates the vital ties between metaphor and metonymy in meaning-making. This workshop therefore integrates these three topics for its theme. The multiple forms of expression to be considered include written words, spoken language, the pictorial mode (still and moving images), sound, and the gestural mode. Attention will be focused on the multimodal use of metaphor and metonymy in TV advertising, film, comics, animation, naturalistic spoken discourse, experimental settings, and foreign language teaching. Format & Schedule: The workshop will feature a combination of plenary lectures, introducing basic concepts, and hands-on workshops, in which the plenary speakers will guide participants in the analysis of materials. There will be two plenaries on the analysis of images and two on gestures, and three workshops on each of the modes of images and gestures. The same hands-on workshops will run on both days so that participants may take part in two out of the three on each topic. For details, see the list of abstracts for the plenary lectures and hands-on workshops, with the overview of the tentative schedule, on the RaAM website (http://www.raam.org.uk/Home.html). Note that there will also be time allotted for a poster session by participants who wish to present their own research on multimodal metaphor and/or metonymy. Speakers: The following speakers will be presenting joint plenary lectures and conducting the hands-on workshops individually or in pairs: ? Images: Frank Boers, Erasmus College of Brussels, Belgium Charles Forceville, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Fiona MacArthur, Universidad de Extremadura, C?ceres, Spain Lisa El Refaie, Cardiff University, United Kingdom ? Gestures: Daniel Casasanto, Max Planck Institute, Nijmegen, The Netherlands Alan Cienki, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands Irene Mittelberg, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands Cornelia M?ller, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder, Germany Participants: In order to retain the workshop character we envisage a maximum of 75 participants in the workshop. To control the number enrolled, those interested are asked to submit the completed application form, found on the website, by 15 March 2009. You will see that applicants must either submit an abstract for a poster or a statement of interest for the workshop. Preference for acceptance will be given to (i) RaAM members, and (ii) those with demonstrable affinity with the workshop theme. Applicants will be notified by 1 April 2009 of acceptance or not. Accepted applicants will then be sent a registration form and information on paying the registration fee. Costs: Fees for accepted applicants will be as follows: ? ?75 for delegates who are not RaAM members and not PhD students ? ?50 for RaAM members who are not PhD students ? ?50 for PhD students who are not RaAM members ? ?25 for PhD students who are RaAM members Participants will have the option of taking part in a joint workshop dinner, provisionally planned to be held on Thursday evening, 4 June, at Brasserie Harkema. The cost of the dinner will be ?50 including drinks, and is not covered by the workshop fees listed above. Schedule: The programme will begin at 9:00 on Thursday morning, 4 June, and will end at 18:30 on Friday afternoon, 5 June. See the link to the complete schedule on the RaAM website. Travel and accommodation: Schiphol Airport in the Netherlands is a 20-minute train trip away from Amsterdam. The department of Media Studies is located in the city center, near Muntplein and Spui, 5 minutes by tram or 15 minutes walking from Amsterdam Central Station. Participants will be expected to make their own travel and hotel arrangements. A list of recommended hotels is available via the RaAM website. Organizing committee: The workshop is being organized by: ? Charles Forceville (Dept. of Media Studies, Universiteit van Amsterdam) ? Alan Cienki (Dept. of Language and Communication, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) ? Irene Mittelberg (Dept. of Language and Communication, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) ? Ra?l Ni?o Zambrano (Research MA student Media Studies, Universiteit van Amsterdam) ? Marijn de Jong (Dept. of Speech Communication, Argumentation Theory and Rhetoric/Dept. of Media Studies, Universiteit van Amsterdam) ? Leonie Schmidt (Research MA student Media Studies, Universiteit van Amsterdam) ? Jacqueline Antonissen (Secretary Media Studies, Universiteit van Amsterdam) From Judith.Holler at manchester.ac.uk Fri Jan 23 00:48:48 2009 From: Judith.Holler at manchester.ac.uk (Judith Holler) Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 08:48:48 +0000 Subject: [isgs] conference, summer school and membership renewal Message-ID: <20090123084848437.00000003648@MS-001AA0B1F2AE> Dear all, On behalf of the ISGS President, Susan Goldin-Meadow, I would like to make a couple of announcements: 1) ISGS conference: The 4th ISGS conference will take place 20th-25th July 2010, in Germany, Berlin and Frankfurt an der Oder (NB: this is NOT Frankfurt am Main). The conference will be organised by the leaders of the togog project (http://www.togog.org) Cornelia Mueller, Ellen Fricke, Hedda Lausberg and Katja Liebal, as well as the project coordinator Ulrike Wrobel. 2) ISGS summer school: We are also in the process of organising a summer school (Mandana Seyfeddinipur, Lorenza Mondada and Judith Holler) which will either directly precede or follow the conference. 3) ISGS membership: Since it is the beginning of the new year, we would like to kindly remind you to renew your membership for 2009. For membership renewal, please go to http://www.gesturestudies.com and click 'Join ISGS'. More details on both the conference and the summer school will follow soon (in case of any questions, please contact the respective organisers and check the ISGS website for updates). 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Sorry for the inconvenience caused, Best wishes, Judith Dr Judith Holler Lecturer in Language & Communication School of Psychological Sciences Coupland Building 1 University of Manchester Manchester M13 9PL U.K. ++44 (0)161 2752688 From s.kita at bham.ac.uk Mon Jan 26 13:41:25 2009 From: s.kita at bham.ac.uk (Sotaro Kita) Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:41:25 +0000 Subject: [isgs] Special issue on gesture in Language and Cognitive Processes Message-ID: <64B2E1E6-594D-4710-8D67-F4E764A9B875@bham.ac.uk> The Special Issue on "Speech-accompanying gestures" edited by Sotaro Kita just appeared in Language and Cognitive Processes Vol. 24, Issue 2., 2009, with the following eight articles. (1) Cross-cultural variation of speech-accompanying gesture: A review Sotaro Kita (2) Co-speech gestures in a naming task: Developmental data Silvia Stefanini; Arianna Bello; Maria Cristina Caselli; Jana M. Iverson; Virginia Volterra (3) When gesture-speech combinations do and do not index linguistic change Seyda Ozcaliskan; Susan Goldin-Meadow (4) Changes in frame of reference use across the preschool years: A longitudinal study of the gestures and speech produced during route descriptions Kazuki Sekine (5) Effects of different types of hand gestures in persuasive speech on receivers' evaluations Fridanna Maricchiolo; Augusto Gnisci; Marino Bonaiuto; Gianluca Ficca (6) Communicating common ground: How mutually shared knowledge influences speech and gesture in a narrative task Judith Holler; Katie Wilkin (7) Co-speech gesture in bimodal bilinguals Shannon Casey; Karen Emmorey (8) Brief training with co-speech gesture lends a hand to word learning in a foreign language Spencer D. Kelly; Tara McDevitt; Megan Esch -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://gossip.ucr.edu/pipermail/isgs/attachments/20090126/5bb431df/attachment.html