Funded research projects

Moscow State Linguistic University, Multimodal Communication and Cognition Laboratory

International Research Project, initiated by Moscow State Linguistic University (in cooperation with Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris und the European University Viadrina, Frankfurt, Oder, Université d'Evry-Val-d'Essonne and RWTH Aachen, funded by the Russian Science Foundation

Time span

09/2014-12/2018

Description

Based on the grammatical expression of temporal contours this international project investigates linguistic world-views that have emerged in the form of Russian, French and German aspectual and Aktionsart systems. It pursues new venues both methodologically and theoretically in researching the performance of those systems in multimodal language usage (e.g. as they are expressed in speech and gestures). Hand movements may embody language-specific conceptualizations of events; in connection with speech they display ways in which speakers construe and highlight different qualities of events. (Keywords: Aspect, Aktionsart, Gesture and Language, Cross-linguistic Comparison)

Publications

Cienki, Alan, Olga K. Iriskhanova, Raymond B. Becker, Dominique Boutet, Camille Debras, Valeriya Denisova, Monica Gonzalez-Marquez, Aliyah Morgenstern, Cornelia Müller and Nicole Richter (2018). Aspectuality across Languages. Event Construal in Speech and Gesture. Amsterdam: John Benjamins

Director and memebers

Director

Prof. Dr. Alan Cienki, PhD Principal Investigator (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and Moscow State Linguistic University)

Members

• Prof. Dr. Olga Iriskhanova, Principal Investigator (Moscow State Linguistic University)
• Prof. Dr. Aliyah Morgenstern, Principal Investigator (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris)
• Prof. Dr. Cornelia Müller, Principal Investigator (Europa-Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder))
• Dr. Dominique Boutet, Principal Investigator (Université d'Evry-Val-d'Essonne)
• Dr. Maria Tomskaia, Principal Investigator, (Moscow State Linguistic University)
• Prof. Dr. Nicole Richter, Additional Investigator (European University Viadrina)
• Dr. Jelena Karpenko, Additional Investigator, (Moscow State Linguistic University)
• Raymond Becker, MSc, Additional Investigator (RWTH Aachen University)
• Valeriia Denisova, MA, Additional Investigator, (Moscow State Linguistic University)
• Andrei Petrov, MA, Additional Investigator, (Moscow State Linguistic University)

 

Project funded by BMBF

Description

The project researches the role of body and movement for the emergence of meaning and its ‘transfer’ into language including gesture (hand and body gestures). Bringing together embodiment research from phenomenological, psychological and cognitive-linguistic perspectives the project conducts empirical studies of clinical and everyday contexts. Methodologically it brings together philosophical, dance therapeutic and multimodal metaphor approaches.

Time span

2009-2012

Publications

Koch, Sabine C., Thomas Fuchs, Michela Summa and Cornelia Müller (eds.) (2012). Body Memory, Metaphor and Movement. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Kolter, Astrid, Silva H. Ladewig, Michela Summa, Cornelia Müller, Sabine C. Koch and Thomas Fuchs (2012). Body memory and the emergence of Metaphor in movement and speech. An interdisciplinary case study. In: Sabine Koch, Thomas Fuchs and Cornelia Müller (eds.), Body Memory, Metaphor, and Movement, 201–226. Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Müller, Cornelia and Silva H. Ladewig (2013). Metaphors for Sensorimotor Experiences: Gestures as Embodied and Dynamic Conceptualizations of Balance in Dance Lessons. In: Michael Borkent, Barbara Dancygier and Jennifer Hinnell (eds.), Language and the Creative Mind, 295–324. CSDL volume. Stanford: Stanford University.

Directors

• Prof. Dr. Cornelia Müller (Linguistics, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder))
• Prof. Dr. Dr. Thomas Fuchs (Psychiatry & Philosophy, Universität Heidelberg)
• Prof. Dr. Sabine Koch (Psychology & Dance Therapy, SRH University Heidelberg)

 Funded by DFG withing the Center of Excellence Languages of Emotion

Time span

2009-2011

Description

The project aims at developing an interdisciplinary theory of expressive movements as well as a methodology that allows for their reconstruction. It brings together a linguistic take on reconstructing the dynamics of attention and affect through the use of multimodal metaphors in talk (Müller) with a film-analytic model of expressive movements and 'sensory pictures' (Empfindungsbilder) (Kappelhoff).

As far as multimodally expressed metaphors (speech and gesture) in spoken discourse are concerned, we propose that they imply a dynamic activation and construction of cognitive and affective experience and that they constitute specific forms of mundane expressive movements. Regarding the orchestration of multimodal metaphors in film (orchestration of space, image, sound), we assume that they organize a specific form of cinematographic expressive movement, which play a core role in the recipients' dynamically structured orientation of affect.

The project carries out a comparative empirical study of metaphorically organized expressive movements in face-to-face communication, in news and sport reports, in German TV series, in contemporary German Cinema and in Classical Hollywood Cinema (Hitchcock, Film noir). The analysis of forms of multimodal metaphoric orchestration of expressive movements, as well as their distribution over the different types of audiovisually recorded data, serve as point of anchorage for both: the development of a methodology and a theory of expressive movements – a theory which transcends the concept of affect as a symptomatic expression of inner states.

Publications

Books

Greifenstein, Sarah, Dorothea Horst, Thomas Scherer, Christina Schmitt, Hermann Kappelhoff and Cornelia Müller (eds.) (2018). Cinematic Metaphor in Perspective. Reflections on a Transdisciplinary Framework, Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, Reihe: Cinepoetics – English Edition 5.

Müller, Cornelia and Hermann Kappelhoff (2018). Cinematic Metaphor. Experience – Affectivity – Temporality. In collaboration with mit Greifenstein, Sarah / Horst, Dorothea / Scherer, Thomas / Schmitt, Christina, Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, Reihe: Cinepoetics – English Edition 4.

Articles

Greifenstein, S. (2010). 'If you won't do it for love, how about money?!' HIS GIRL FRIDAY und das Kleingeld großer Gefühle. Nach dem Film (12: Lachen im Kino und auf der Leinwand). published: 2010/10/22, www.nachdemfilm.de/content/if-you-won’t-do-it-love-how-about-money

Greifenstein, S., Kappelhoff, H. (2014). The discovery of the acting body. In: Cornelia, M., Cienki, A., Fricke, E., et al. (Ed.), Body – Language – Communication: An international handbook on multimodality in human interaction. Berlin/New York: De Gruyter Mouton.

Horst, D., Boll, F., Schmitt, C., Müller, C. (2014). Gesture as interactive expressive movement: Inter-affectivity in face-to-face communication. In:  Müller, C., Cienki, A., Fricke, E., et al. (Ed.), Body – Language – Communication: An International Handbook on Multimodality in Human Interaction. Berlin/New York: De Gruyter Mouton.

Kappelhoff, H. (2011). The Distribution of Emotions: Fassbinder and the Politics of Aesthetics. The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory 86 (3). 201-220.

Kappelhoff, H., Bakels, J.-H. (2011). Das Zuschauergefühl - Möglichkeiten qualitativer Medienanalyse. Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft 5 (2).

Kappelhoff, H., Greifenstein, S. (2014). Feeling gloomy or riding high: Timings of Melodrama and Comedy. In: Angerer, M.-L., Ott, M., Bösel, B. (Ed.), Timing of Affect. Epistemologies, Aesthetics, Politics. Zürich: Diaphanes/University of Chicago Press.

Kappelhoff, H., Müller, C. (2011). Embodied meaning construction. Multimodal metaphor and expressive movement in speech, gesture, and in feature film. Metaphor and the Social World 1 (2). 121–153.

Kappelhoff, H., Müller, C., Böhme, D., Greifenstein, C., Schmitt, C. (2012). Analyzing multimodal metaphors in audio-visuals as dynamic temporal orchestrations. Experimental work on Metaphor. Princeton, USA.

Müller, C. (2019). Metaphorizing as Embodied Interactivity: What Gesturing and Film Viewing Can Tell Us About an Ecological View on Metaphor. Metaphor and Symbol, 34(1): 61–79.

Müller, C. (2017). Waking Metaphors. Embodied Cognition in Multimodal Discourse. In: Beate Hampe (ed.), Metaphor. Embodied Cognition in Discourse, 297–316. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Müller, C. (2013). Gestures as a medium of expression: The linguistic potential of gestures. In: Müller, C., Cienki, A., Fricke, E., et al. (Ed.), Body – Language – Communication: An international handbook on multimodality in human interaction. 202-217. Berlin/New York: De Gruyter Mout

Müller, C. (2011). Reaction Paper. Are 'Deliberate' Metaphors really Deliberate. A Question of Human Consciousness and Action. Metaphor and the Social World 1 (1). 61-66.

Müller, C. and C. Schmitt (2015). Audio-visual metaphors of the financial crisis: meaning making and the flow of experience. In: Revista Brasileira de Linguística Aplicada/Brazilian Journal of Applied Linguistics 15.2 (Special Issue: Metaphor and Metonymy in Social Practices, ed. by Raymond W. Gibbs Jr. and Luciane Corrêa Ferreira): 311-341.

Scherer, T., Greifenstein, S., Kappelhoff, H. (2014). Expressive movements in audiovisual media: Modulating affective experience. In: Müller, C., Cienki, A., Fricke, E., et al. (Ed.), Body – Language – Communication: An international handbook on multimodality in human interaction. Berlin/New York: De Gruyter Mouton.

Schmitt, C., Greifenstein, S., Kappelhoff, H. (2014). Expressive movement and metaphoric meaning making. In: Müller, C., Cienki, A., Fricke, E., et al. (Ed.), Body – Language – Communication: An international handbook on multimodality in human interaction. Berlin/New York: De Gruyter Mounton.

Schmitt, C., Greifenstein, S. (2014). Cinematic communication and embodiment. In: Müller, C., Cienki, A., Fricke, E., et al. (Ed.), Body – Language – Communication: An international handbook on multimodality in human interaction. Berlin/New York: De Gruyter Mouton.

Conference papers

Greifenstein, S. (2010). Gestures in Film. Describing Gestures in American Screwball Comedies from an Interdisciplinary Approach. 4th conference of the international society for gesture studies (ISGS'10) - gesture. evolution, brain, and linguistic structures. Europa-Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder (Germany).

Greifenstein, S., Rook, S., Kappelhoff, H., Müller, C., Schmitt, C., Tag, S. (2010). Multimodal metaphors and expressive movement in film. Audiovisual aesthetic structures modelling emotions. 4th Conference of Language, Culture and Mind (LCM4). Åbo Akademi University, Turku (Finland).

Greifenstein, S., Rook, S., Kappelhoff, H., Müller, C., Schmitt, C., Tag, S. (2010). 'Psychoanalysis is Opening Doors' – A Film Aesthetic & Linguistic Analysis of Hitchcock’s SPELLBOUND. 8th International Conference on Research and Applying Metaphor (RaAM8): Metaphor and Domains of Discourse. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Netherlands).

Kappelhoff, H., Müller, C. (2010). Multimodal metaphors and expressive movements in speech, gesture, and audiovisual images – A cognitive-linguistic and a film-analytic approach to multimodal metaphors. 8th International Conference on Research and Applying Metaphor (RaAM8): Metaphor and Domains of Discourse. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Netherlands).

Müller, C., Tag, S. (2010). The Dynamics of Metaphor. Foregrounding and Activating Metaphoricity in Conversational Interaction. Cognitive Semiotics (Special Issue No 6, Spring 2010).

Schmitt, C. (2011). Metaphorically structured audiovisual expressive movements in commercials: Images as rhetoric gestures. Nomadikon: image=gesture. Bergen, Norwegen.

Schmitt, C., Tag, S., Kappelhoff, H., Müller, C., Greifenstein, S., Rook, S. (2010). Analyzing metaphoric expressions in TV reports. An interdisciplinary approach to metaphors in speech, gesture and film. 4th Conference of Language, Culture and Mind (LCM4). Åbo Akademi University, Turku (Finland).

Schmitt, C., Tag, S., Kappelhoff, H., Müller, C., Greifenstein, S., Rook, S. (2010). Intertwined Metaphoric Expressions. Bringing together Linguistic and Film-Aesthetic Analysis. 8th International Conference on Research and Applying Metaphor (RaAM8): Metaphor and Domains of Discourse. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Netherlands).

Schmitt, C., Tag, S., Kappelhoff, H., Müller, C., Greifenstein, S., Rook, S. (2010). Audiovisual orchestrations of metaphoric gestures in a TV report. 4th conference of the international society for gesture studies (ISGS'10) - gesture. evolution, brain, and linguistic structures. Europa-Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder (Germany).

Directors and members

Directors

• Prof. Dr. Hermann Kappelhoff (Film studies, FU Berlin)
• Prof. Dr. Cornelia Müller

Members / Research team

• Sarah Greifenstein
• Christina Schmitt
• Dorothea Böhme
• Franziska Boll

Funded by DFG withing the Center of Excellence Languages of Emotion

Time span

2009-2011

Description

How is alexithymia expressed in language and gesture?
The term "alexithymia" literally means "having no words for feelings" and describes a personality trait characterized by a deficit in identifying, decoding, or communicating one’s own feelings or emotional aspects of social interaction. However, there are no systematic studies on language use in alexithymia with respect to emotions; bodily movements and coverbal gestures have not been considered at all in current alexithymia scales.

The project investigates if, and if so, how alexithymia expresses itself in language use and gesture. 30 subjects with high alexithymia scores and 30 control subjects participated in screenings on emotion vocabulary and in interviews that covered emotional topics and elicited narratives. The verbal encoding of emotions is evaluated by examining the use of emotion vocabulary as well as illocutionary and metaphoric expressions of emotion.

Furthermore, vibrancy, structure, and narrative perspective are taken into consideration. The gestural analysis examines whether alexithymia is not only evidenced by a deficit in verbalizing emotional content, but also by a lesser capacity to embody emotional experience in communication. It researches the verbal-gestural conceptualisation of emotions as well as the expressive qualities of gestural movements.

These analyses aim to differentiate between problems of experience and problems of verbalization or symbolization in alexithymia. The final goal of the project is to extent current models of language, gesture, and emotion and to formulate testable aspects of verbal expression and communication for the scheduled Berlin Alexithymia Inventory (B.A.L.I.; cf. Project 109).

Publications

Müller, Cornelia and Benjamin Marienfeld (2022). Feeling for Speaking. How expressive body movements ground verbal descriptions of emotions. In: Herbert L. Colston, Teenie Matlock and Gerard J. Steen (eds.), Dynamism in Metaphor and Beyond. John Benjamins Publishing Company.

Directors and members

Directors

• Gisela Klann-Delius
• Cornelia Müller

Members / Research Team

• Christiane Wotschack
• Mary Copple

Funded by the VolkswagenStiftung within the frame program "Schlüsselthemen der Geisteswissenschaften (key topics of the Humanities)

Time span 

10/2006-04/2011

Description 

We do not only talk with the mouth, but also with the hands. Gestures are a genuine part of speaking and language. The elaboration of the basics of a grammar of gestures was aimed at determining the techniques of gesture production as well as proto-linguistic forms of meaning constitution and the formation of simultaneous and linear structures in a spatial-visual and inherently dynamic modality. This potential of language (Müller 1998) enfolds under communicative pressure into a spatial-visual language, such as for example Sign Language of deaf people or of the Australian Aborigine women tabooed with silence. The object of the project is a linguistic documentation of the meaning constitution, the formation of forms and structures of speech-accompanying gestures and their their integrability into oral grammar concepts. Individual forms and structures were examined for their neurological foundation and possible evolutionary precursors in the communication of non-human primates. Theoretical and methodological reference points of the linguistic subprojects were approaches from cognitive linguistics, semiotics, grammar theory, interaction and conversation analysis. Beside linguistic and semiotic (Prof. Dr. Cornelia Müller, PD Dr. Ellen Fricke) neurology (Prof. Dr. med. Hedda Lausberg) and primatology (Dr. Katja Liebal) participated with interdisciplinary projects. ToGoG worked on the developement of a linguistic, strictly form-based method of gesture analysis (MGA), which - in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Irene Mittelberg - have been tested and lectured in several international workshops (see MGA Frankfurt (Oder) 2007, Amsterdam 2008, Aachen 2009).

Publications

Books

Liebal, Katja, Cornelia Müller and Simone Pika (eds.) (2007). Gestural Communication in Nonhuman and Human Primates, Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Cienki, Alan and Cornelia Müller (eds.) (2008). Metaphor and Gesture, Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Müller, Cornelia, Alan Cienki, Ellen Fricke, Silva H. Ladewig, David McNeill and Jana Bressem (eds.) (2014). Body – Language – Communication. An International Handbook on Multimodality in Human Interaction (Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science 38.2.), Berlin/ Boston: De Gruyter Mouton.

Müller, Cornelia, Alan Cienki, Ellen Fricke, Silva H. Ladewig, David McNeill and Sedinha Teßendorf (eds.) (2013). Body – Language – Communication. An International Handbook on Multimodality in Human Interaction (Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science 38.1.), Berlin/ Boston: De Gruyter Mouton.

Articles

Bressem, Jana, Silva H. Ladewig and Cornelia Müller (2018). Ways of expressing action in multimodal narrations - The semiotic complexity of character viewpoint depictions. In: Anika Hübl and Markus Steinbach (eds.), Linguistic Foundations of Narration in Spoken and Sign Languages, 223–250. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Bressem, Jana, Silva H. Ladewig and Cornelia Müller (2013). Linguistic Annotation System for Gestures (LASG). In: Cornelia Müller, Alan Cienki, Ellen Fricke, Silva H. Ladewig, David McNeill and Sedinha Teßendorf (eds.), Body – Language – Communication: An international Handbook on Multimodality in Human Interaction. (Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science 38.1.), 1098–1124. Berlin/ Boston: De Gruyter Mouton.Bressem, Jana and Cornelia Müller (2017). The “Negative-Assessment-Construction” – A multimodal pattern based on a recurrent gesture? In: Linguistics Vanguard. A Multimodal Journal for the Language Sciences. Special Issue „Towards a Multimodal Construction Grammar“, 3(s1).

Bressem, Jana and Cornelia Müller (2014). A repertoire of German recurrent gestures with pragmatic functions. In: Cornelia Müller, Alan Cienki, Ellen Fricke, Silva Ladewig, David McNeill and Jana Bressem (eds.), Body – Language – Communication: An international Handbook on Multimodality in Human Interaction. (Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science 38.2.). Berlin/ Boston: De Gruyter Mouton.

Bressem, Jana and Cornelia Müller (2014). The family of away-gestures: Negation, refusal, and negative assessment. In: Cornelia Müller,  Alan Cienki, Ellen Fricke, Silva H. Ladewig, David McNeill and Jana Bressem (eds.), Body – Language – Communication: An international Handbook on Multimodality in Human Interaction. (Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science 38.2.). Berlin/ Boston: De Gruyter Mouton.

Cienki, Alan and Cornelia Müller (2014). Ways of viewing metaphor in gesture. In: Cornelia Müller, Alan Cienki, Ellen Fricke, Silva H. Ladewig, David McNeill and Jana Bressem (eds.), Body – Language – Communication: An international Handbook on Multimodality in Human Interaction. (Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science 38.2.). Berlin/ Boston: De Gruyter Mouton.

Cienki, Alan and Cornelia Müller (2008). Metaphor, gesture and thought. In: Raymond W. Gibbs (ed.), Cambridge Handbook of Metaphor and Thought, 483–501. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Fricke Ellen, Jana Bressem and Cornelia Müller (2014). Gesture families and gestural fields. In: Cornelia Müller,  Alan Cienki, Ellen Fricke, Silva H. Ladewig, David McNeill and Jana Bressem (eds.), Body – Language – Communication: An international Handbook on Multimodality in Human Interaction. (Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science 38.2.). Berlin/ Boston: De Gruyter Mouton.

Müller C. (im Druck). A toolbox for methods of gesture analysis. In A. Cienki (ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Gesture Studies. Cambridge University Press.

Müller C. (2024). Gestural mimesis as ‚as-if‘ action. In: P. Zywiczynski, S. Wacewicz, M. Boruta-Żywiczyńska, J. Blomberg (eds.), Perspectives on pantomime: evolution, development, interaction. Philadelphia/Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Müller C. (2023). Language from the Body – Dynamic relations between gestures and signed language. In: T. Janzen, B. Shaffer (eds.), Signed Language and Gesture Research in Cognitive Linguistics, XIII-XVI. De Gruyter Mouton. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110703788-204

Müller, Cornelia (2019). Gesture and Sign: Cataclysmic Break or Dynamic Relations? In: W. Sandler, M. Gullberg, C. Padden (eds.), Visual Language. Lausanne: Frontiers Media. doi: 10.3389/978-2-88963-078-3

Müller, Cornelia (2017). How recurrent gestures mean: Conventionalized contexts-of-use and embodied motivation. Gesture,16(2): 277–304.

Müller, Cornelia (2016). From mimesis to meaning: A systematics of gestural mimesis for concrete and abstract referential gestures. In: J. Zlatev, G. Sonesson, & P. Konderak (eds.), Meaning, mind and communication: Explorations in cognitive semiotics. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.

Müller, Cornelia (2015). Using Gestures with Speech: Variable Cognitive-Semantic and Pragmatic Relations. MSLU Vestnik, 6(717): 452-466.

Müller, Cornelia (2014). Gestures as "deliberate expressive movement". In: Mandana Seyfeddinipur and Marianne Gullberg (eds.), From Gesture in Conversation to Visible Action as Utterance, 127-152. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Müller, Cornelia (2014). The Ring across space and time: Variation and stability of forms and meanings. In: Cornelia Müller, Alan Cienki, Ellen Fricke, Silva H. Ladewig, David McNeill and Jana Bressem (eds.), Body – Language – Communication: An international Handbook on Multimodality in Human Interaction. (Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science 38.2.). Berlin/ Boston: De Gruyter Mouton.

Müller, Cornelia (2014). Gestural Modes of Representation as techniques of depiction. In: Cornelia Müller, Alan Cienki, Ellen Fricke, Silva H. Ladewig, David McNeill and Jana Bressem (eds.), Body – Language – Communication: An international Handbook on Multimodality in Human Interaction. (Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science 38.2.). Berlin/ Boston: De Gruyter Mouton.

Müller, Cornelia (2013). Gestures as a medium of expression: The linguistic potential of gestures. In: Cornelia Müller, Alan Cienki, Ellen Fricke, Silva H. Ladewig, David McNeill and Sedinha Teßendorf (eds.), Body – Language – Communication: An international Handbook on Multimodality in Human Interaction. (Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science 38.1.), 202–217. Berlin/ Boston: De Gruyter Mouton.Müller, Cornelia (2013). Introduction. In: Cornelia Müller, Alan Cienki, Ellen Fricke, Silva H. Ladewig, David McNeill and Sedinha Teßendorf (eds.), Body – Language – Communication: An international Handbook on Multimodality in Human Interaction. (Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science 38.1.), 1–6. Berlin/ Boston: De Gruyter Mouton.

Müller, Cornelia (2011). Postscript. A semiotic and linguistic perspective on gestures. In: Geneviève Calbris (ed.), Elements of Meaning in Gesture, 367–368. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Müller, Cornelia (2010). Wie Gesten bedeuten. Eine kognitiv-linguistische und sequenzanalytische Perspektive. In: Irene Mittelberg (ed.), Sprache und Gestik. Sonderheft der Zeitschrift Sprache und Literatur, 41(1): 37–68.

Müller, Cornelia (2010). Mimesis und Gestik. In: Gertrud Koch, Martin Vöhler and Christiane Voss (eds.), Die Mimesis und ihre Künste, 149–187. Paderborn: Fink.

Müller, Cornelia (2009). Gesture and Language. In: Kirsten Malmkjaer (ed.), Routledge's Linguistics Encyclopedia, 214–217. Abington/ New York: Routledge.

Müller, Cornelia (2008). What gestures reveal about the nature of metaphor. In: Alan Cienki and Cornelia Müller (eds.), Metaphor and Gesture, 219–245. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Müller, Cornelia (2008). Wie man aneinander vorbei gestikulieren kann... Gesten als Quelle intra- und interkultureller Missverständnisse. In: Veit Didczuneit, Anja Eichler and Lieselotte Kugler (eds.), Missverständnisse - Stolpersteine der Kommunikation, 102–109. Edition Braus (Exhibition catalog of the Museum for Communication Berlin).

Müller, Cornelia (2007). Gestures in human and nonhuman primates: Why we need a comparative view. In: Katja Liebal, Cornelia Müller and Simone Pika (eds.), Gestural Communication in Nonhuman and Human Primates, 237–260. Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Müller, Cornelia (2007). A Dynamic View on Metaphor, Gesture and Thought. In: Susan D. Duncan, Justine Cassell and Elena T. Levy (eds.), Gesture and the Dynamic Dimension of Language. Essays in Honor of David McNeill, 109–116. Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

 

Müller, Cornelia and Ulrike Bohle (2007). Das Fundament fokussierter Interaktion. Zur Vorbereitung und Herstellung von Interaktionsräumen durch körperliche Koordination. In: Reinhold Schmitt (ed.), Koordination. Analyse zur multimodalen Kommunikation, 129–165. Tübingen: Narr.

Müller, Cornelia, Jana Bressem and Silva H. Ladewig (2013). Towards a grammar of gestures: A form-based view. In: Cornelia Müller, Alan Cienki, Ellen Fricke, Silva H. Ladewig, David McNeill and Sedinha Teßendorf (eds.), Body – Language – Communication: An international Handbook on Multimodality in Human Interaction. (Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science 38.1.), 707–732. Berlin/ Boston: De Gruyter Mouton.

Müller, Cornelia and Alan Cienki (2009). Words, gestures, and beyond. Forms of multimodal metaphor in the use of spoken language. In: Charles Forceville and Eduardo Urios-Aparisi (eds.), Multimodal Metaphor, 297–328. Berlin/ New York: De Gruyter Mouton.

Müller, Cornelia, Silva H. Ladewig and Jana Bressem (2013). Gestures and speech from a linguistic perspective: A new field and its history. In: Cornelia Müller,  Alan Cienki, Ellen Fricke, Silva H. Ladewig, David McNeill and Sedinha Teßendorf (eds.), Body – Language – Communication: An international Handbook on Multimodality in Human Interaction. (Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science 38.1.), 29–55. Berlin/ Boston: De Gruyter Mouton.

 

Müller, Cornelia, Katja Liebal and Simone Pika (2007). Gestural communication in human and nonhuman primates: Introduction. In: Katja Liebal, Cornelia Müller and Simone Pika (eds.), Gestural communication in nonhuman and human primates, 1–4. Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Müller, Cornelia and Susanne Tag (2010). The Dynamics of Metaphor: Foregrounding and Activating Metaphoricity in Conversational Interaction. Cognitive Semiotics, 6: 85–120.

Directors and members

Directors

• Prof. Dr. Cornelia Müller
• Prof. Dr. med. Hedda Lausberg
• Prof. Dr. Katja Liebal
• PD Dr. Ellen Fricke

Members: 

• Jana Bressem, M.A.
• Silva Ladewig, M.A. 

Time span

1992-1995

Director and members

Director

• Gisela Klann-Delius (FU Berlin)

Members

• Cornelia Müller