Welcome to the Viadrina Center for Gesture and Multimodality Studies!

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2025

Sanda Debreslioska, PhD (Lund University, Sweden): "Language, gestures and discourse: Insights from studies on German and German Sign Language"

Prof. Dr. Martin Luginbühl (University of Basel, Switzerland): "Medial shaping of war reporting: A comparison of European TV news shows covering Russia’s invasion of Ukraine"

 

2024

Henrique Perissinotto (RWTH Aachen University, Germany): "Embodied Metacognition in dance and musical improvisation"

Paloma Batista Cardosa (Federal University of Sergipe, Brazil): "Pragmatic functions of negation in Brazilian Portuguese: a multimodal description"

Dr. Philipp Dankel (University of Basel, Switzerland): "Gesture and speech in lists and animated discourse"

Dr. Maria Graziano (Lund University, Sweden): "Different rhetorical styles through different gesture production: evidence from Italian and Swedish narratives"

Katharina Meissl, Clarissa de Vries, Fien Andries (University of Leuven, Belgium): "Mocking enactments – a case study of multimodal stance-stacking"

Dr. Zeinab Laleh Khosravi (Damghan University, Iran): "A Comparative Study on Two Major Schools of Naqqāli. How does Naqqāli, as an Iranian Traditional Storytelling Style, develop through co-speech gestures?"

Dr. Thomas Scherer (European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Germany): "Manufacturing Communality? Audiovisual Appeals to ‘the Common Good’"

Schuyler Laparle (Tilburg University, Netherlands): "Multifunctionality in gestural discourse markers"

Emma Kusuoba Pedavoah (University of Ghana, Legon): "Metaphorising Corruption in Selected SONAs of the Fourth Republic of Ghana: A Discourse Dynamics to Metaphor Analysis and Cultural Model Approach"

 

2023

Sandra Cabanes Pérez (University of Valencia, Spain): “Interactive Gestures and the taking of turns in conversation”

Klaudia Karkowska (Nikolaus Kopernikus Univ., Poland): “Gesture and Bilingualism: Analyzing gestures and speech in pre-school childre

Paloma Batista Cardosa (Federal University of Sergipe, Brazil): “Gestures of negation in Brazilian Portuguese”

Paul Arnold, PhD (McMaster University, Canada): “Gestures in religious rituals”

 

2022

Paloma Batista Cardosa (Federal University of Sergipe, Brazil): "Speech, hand gestures, and facial expressions: a multimodal approach to
describe negative statements with „não“ in Brazilian Portuguese“

Sandra Cabanes Perez (University of Valencia, Spain): "Val.Es.Co. Model: incorporating multimodality in conversation segmentation“

Henrique Perissinotto (Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil): "Embodied diagrams in oral poetry improvisation“

Gabriele Giacosa (University of Cologne, Germany): "Moving Sounds: Towards a (Phenomenological) Cognitive Semiotics of Music“

For an overwiew of recent and former visiting international doctoral students go to Dissertations.

2025

• Sanda Debreslioska, PhD (Lund University, Sweden)
• Prof. Dr. Martin Luginbühl (University of Basel, Switzerland)
• Prof. Dr. Terry Janzen (University of Manitoba, Canada)

 

2024

• Henrique Perissinotto (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)
• Dr. Philipp Dankel (University of Basel, Switzerland)
• Dr. Maria Graziano (Lund University, Sweden)
• Katharina Meissl, Clarissa de Vries and Fien Andries (KU Leuven, Belgium)
• Dr. Thomas Scherer (European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Germany)
• Schuyler Laparle (Tilburg University, Netherlands)

 

2023

• Paloma Batista Cardoso (Federal University of Sergipe, Brazil)
• Sandra Cabanes Perez (University of Valencia, Spain)

 

2022

• Emma Kusuoba Pedavoah (University of Ghana, Ghana)