| April 24 |
|
Friday |
| 9:30 - 9:40 |
Roland Posner |
Opening of the Symposium |
| Morning Session |
Chair: Dagmar Schmauks |
The Berlin Dictionary of Everyday Gestures |
| 9:40 - 10:00 |
Roland Posner |
The Semantics and Pragmatics of Berlin Everyday Gestures |
| 10:00 - 10:30 |
Frank Hofmann and Günter Hommel |
Gesture Recognition with the TUB-SensorGlove |
| 10:30 - 11:00 |
Thomas Velten and Ernst Obermeier |
Micromechanical Sensors for Applications in Gesture Recognition |
| 11:00 - 11:15 |
|
Coffee Break |
| 11:15 - 11:45 |
Thomas Noll |
The Structure of Dictionary Entries: Syntactics and Semantics |
| 11:45 - 12:15 |
Reinhard Krüger |
The Structure of Dictionary Entries: Etymology |
| 12:15 - 12:45 |
Massimo Serenari |
The Structure of Dictionary Entries: Field Work |
| 12:45 - 13:00 |
|
Discussion |
| 13:00 - 15:00 |
|
Lunch Break |
| Afternoon Session |
Chair: Penny Boyes-Braem |
The Pragmatics of Everyday Gestures |
| 15:00 - 15:40 |
Cornelia Müller |
On Gestures in Speech-Pauses |
| 15:40 - 16:20 |
Monica Rector and Salvato Trigo |
Body Signs and Gestures in Portuguese Speaking Countries |
| 16:20 - 16:30 |
|
Coffee Break |
| 16:30 - 17:10 |
Peter Collett |
Problems and Procedures in the Study of Gestures |
| 17:10 - 17:50 |
Christine Kühn |
Body and Soul: Gestures as Mediators in Communication |
| April 25 |
|
Saturday |
| Morning Session |
Chair: Adam Kendon |
Towards National Dictionaries of Everyday Gestures |
| 9:30 - 10:10 |
Sabina Pavlova |
Head and Hand Gestures of Bulgarians - Their Specific Nature and Lexicographic
Presentation |
| 10:10 - 10:50 |
Lluis Payrató |
Notes on Lexicography and Gestures. The Case of the Repertoire of Catalan
Emblems |
| 10:50 - 11:30 |
Pio Enrico Ricci Bitti and Silvana Contento |
Symbolic Gestures and Gesturing in Communication |
| 11:30 - 11:40 |
|
Coffee Break |
| 11:40 - 12:20 |
Isabella Poggi and Emanuela Magno Caldognetto |
The Italian Gestionary |
| 12:20 - 13:00 |
Grigori Kreidlin |
Types of Lexical Information and the Structure of Lexical Entries in
the Dictionary of Russian Everyday Gestures |
| 13:00 - 15:00 |
|
Lunch Break |
| Afternoon Session |
Chair: Monica Rector |
Deixis in Everyday Gestures |
| 15:00 - 15:40 |
Geneviève Calbris |
Deixis Representative |
| 15:40 - 16:20 |
Sotaro Kita and Asli Özyürek |
Representing Directionality by Gestures in Narrative Discourse |
| 16:20 - 16:30 |
|
Coffee Break |
| 16:30 - 17:10 |
Elena Pizzuto |
Representational and Deictic Gestures and Words in the First Two Years
of Life: Insights from the Study of Italian Children |
| 17:10 - 17:50 |
Penny Boyes Braem and Thuering Braem |
A Pilot Study of the Expressive Gestures Used by Orchestral Conductors |
| 20:00 - 22:00 |
|
Concert / Opera |
| April 26 |
|
Sunday |
| Morning Session |
Chair: Cornelia Müller |
Cross-Cultural Studies in Everyday Gestures |
| 10:00 - 10:40 |
Adam Kendon |
Some Contrasts in Gesticulation between Speakers in Neaples and Speakers
in Northampshire |
| 10:40 - 11:00 |
Ragnhild Neumann (Discussant) |
The Conventionalization of the Ring Gesture in German Discourse |
| 11:00 - 11:20 |
Mandana Seyfeddinipur (Discussant) |
Case Study on a Conventionalized Persian Gesture |
| 11:20 - 11:40 |
|
Discussion (with Coffee) |
| 11:40 - 12:20 |
David McNeill, Susan D. Duncan & Karl-Erik McCullough |
How To Go Down a Pipe: Growth Points and Catchments Cross-Linguistically |
| 12:20 - 13:00 |
Michel de Fornel |
The Pragmatics of Metaphoric French Gestures (tentative title) |
| 13:00 - 15:00 |
|
Lunch Break |
| 15:00 - 17:00 |
|
Round Table on Forms of International Cooperation in Gesture Studies |
