Multimodality and embodied interaction

• Applicant: Dr. Cornelia Gerhardt
• Subject Area: General and Comparative Linguistics, Experimental Linguistics, Typology, Non-European Languages
• Term: from 2012 to 2019
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 221933637

The research network is concerned with communicative practices in face-to-face encounters from a multimodal perspective: Analytic interests include the embodiment (i.e. gaze, facial expression, gesture, bodily posture and proxemics) and vocal contextualisation of linguistic structures in different linguistic and cultural communities (including German, English, Brazilian Portuguese, Mandarin Chinese, French, Italian, and Wolof). Settings under study range from informal contexts to institutional interaction. Aiming at developing the methodology of multimodal analysis, the network combines interdisciplinary, cross-linguistic and -cultural, and interactional aspects in its research.

• DFG Programme: Scientific Networks
• Participating Person: Privatdozentin Dr. Elisabeth Reber