Kategorie: SemNews

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....

After many years at Goethe University, Carolin Reinert has left the Institute of Linguistics. Carolin has been a highly valued colleague and an important part of our academic community, and we will miss having her here very much. We wish her all the very best for the future and her new position at Ruhr University Bochum!...

On 26 August 2026, seven members of the Institute of Linguistics took part in this year’s Goethe Run as the Linguistic Owl-Stars. The 5.8-kilometer after-work run brought together members of the Rhine-Main Universities and connected Goethe University’s Ginnheim and Westend campuses. Many thanks to Tristan Nagel for organizing our team—and congratulations to all our runners!...