Kategorie: Semantik

The Semantics team was represented with two posters at the 6th Experimental Pragmatics in Italy (XPrag.it 6), held in Genoa, Italy. Cornelia Ebert and Sebastian Walter, together with Daniel Teich and Stefan Hinterwimmer, presented a poster titled "Event kind vs. event token interpretations of iconic gestures in the VP domain". Sebastian Walter, together with Lyn Tieu, Selina Zheng and Natalia Liu, presented a second poster titled "At-issue and non-at-issue contributions of emoji: Evidence from contrastive inferences". We are very happy to see the Semantics team represented with two contributions at XPrag.it 6. Sebastian Walter presenting the poster “At-issue and non-at-issue contributions of emoji: Evidence from contrastive inferences”. Daniel Teich and Sebastian Walter presenting the poster “Event kind vs. event token interpretations of iconic gestures in the VP domain”.  ...

Kathryn Barnes was invited to give a talk together with Aleksandra Ćwiek (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń) at the workshop From the Sound Up, held at Uppsala University from 16–18 September 2026. Their talk, "The search for ideophones in ideophonically impoverished languages", was part of a session on documenting onomatopoeia, databases, and resources. The workshop brought together researchers working on vocal imitation, onomatopoeia, iconicity, and sound symbolism, with a particular focus on how these phenomena contribute to the emergence and structure of linguistic systems....

On Saturday, 19 September 2026, the DFG Priority Program ViCom (Visual Communication) will be part of the Frankfurt Science Festival at the Roßmarkt in Frankfurt am Main. From 14:15 to 16:15, visitors can find ViCom at Stand 5 (#experiment) in the Goethe University tent. At two interactive stations, visitors will be able to take part in short experiments and experience research on visual and multimodal communication first-hand. ViCom researchers will introduce the studies, explain the questions behind them, and show how much of human communication goes beyond words alone. The Science Festival is open to everyone and admission is free. More information about ViCom's participation can be found here. Come by and explore visual communication with us!...

The Semantics team was represented with three talks at the 30th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SemDial 2026 – LuffDial), held at Loughborough University. Lennart Fritzsche gave a talk titled “Intensified response particles and polarity opposition”. Sebastian Walter gave a talk titled “Investigating contrastive inference generation across speech and gesture” and, together with Jonas Hartke, presented a second talk titled “When are speakers committed to their gestures? Insights from deceptive communication”. We are very happy to see the Semantics team represented with three contributions at SemDial 2026....

The Semantics team was represented with three posters at Sinn und Bedeutung 31 (SuB 31), held in Nantes. The book of abstracts is available online. Cornelia Ebert presented a poster titled “Exceptional wide scope readings as implicit private pointing gestures”. Lennart Fritzsche presented a poster titled “Is commitment ever really shared?”. Sebastian Walter, together with Lyn Tieu, Natalia Liu, and Selina Zheng, presented a poster titled “Investigating depictive and symbolic uses of emoji through contrastive inferences”. We are very happy to see the Semantics team represented so strongly at SuB 31. Cornelia Ebert presenting her poster. Lennart Fritzsche presenting his poster. Sebastian Walter presenting his poster....