Programme

International workshop Connecting discourse in speech and gesture

30-31 March 2017

Lund University Humanities Lab

The workshop will take place at LUX (Helgonavägen 3), Lund University, Sweden.

March 30
Room: LUX - B251

SESSION 1 Discourse cohesion and coherence Chair: Maria Graziano 09:00 Registration 09:30 – 09:45  Welcome and introduction 09:45 – 10:30 Sandra Debreslioska & Marianne Gullberg, Lund University, Sweden The interaction of gesture frequency and viewpoint with linguistic markers of information status 10:30 – 11:00  Coffee break 11:00 – 11:45  Ted Sanders, University of Utrecht, the Netherlands The cognition of coherence relations and connectives: Converging evidence from language use, acquisition and discourse processing 11:45 – 12:30  Emanuela Campisi^1,2 & Marianne Gullberg², ¹University of Catania, Italy; ²Lund University, Sweden Cohesion is heard and seen: cross-linguistic differences in gestures referring to the same entities in sustained discourse 12:30 – 13:00  DISCUSSION 13:00 – 14:30  Lunch

SESSION 2 Interaction and pragmaticsChair: Emanuela Campisi 14:30 – 15:15 Judith Holler, Donders Institute, Radboud University & Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands The role of the body in rendering conversation a cohesive joint activity 15:15 – 15:45  Coffee break 15:45 – 16:30  Elisabeth Engberg-Pedersen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark The Open Hand Supine as an expression of epistemic modality in Danish Sign Language 16:30 – 17:00  DISCUSSION 19:00               Dinner

March 31
Room: LUX - C121

SESSION 3 Developmental perspectives       Chair: Marianne Gullberg 09:00 Registration 09:30 – 10:15  Danielle Matthews, University of Sheffield, UK Learning about discourse: Some evidence from preschoolers' language acquisition. 10:15 – 11:00                          Elena Levy, University of Connecticut, USA The multimodal development of discourse 11:00 – 11:30  Coffee break 11:30 – 12:15              Maria Graziano, Lund University, Sweden Bimodal narratives: Developmental perspectives on the use of gestures to mark narrative structure 12:00 – 12:30  DISCUSSION 12:30 – 12:45  CLOSING REMARKS 12:45   Lunch