Cologne Mythological Workshop (20 January 2022, online)

First Postclassical Greek Conference Cologne (PGCC 1)
March 24–26, 2021

SoSe 23

• Anna Bonifazi (mit Pinelopi Ioannidou) ''Inferring gaps of knowledge from anaphoric expressions in detective stories’', International Pragmatics Association Conference, Brussels, 07/2023.
• Giuseppina Di Bartolo: "Clause linkage strategies in colloquial Ancient Greek: The case of hṓste in documentary papyri", IPrA Konferenz, Brüssel, 07/2023.
• Giuseppina Di Bartolo, Ulrich Geupel, Daniel Kölligan, Thiago Venturott: co-authored paper ''The Pavia Verbs Database: Late Greek'', PaVeDa Workshop. The Pavia Verbs Database: State of the art, challenges, and perspectives, University of Pavia, Italy, 18.05.2023
• Giuseppina Di Bartolo: "The Pavia Verbs Database: Late Greek", co-authored paper with Daniel Kölligan, Ulrich Geupel and Thiago Venturott, PaVeDa Workshop. The Pavia Verbs Database: State of the art, challenges, and perspectives, University of Pavia, Italy.
• Anna Bonifazi: "Tears in music: towards a cognitive-semiotic account", University of Niš, Serbia, 22.03.23
• Anna Bonifazi: "Character Migration Through Multimodality: Orpheus From Early Texts to Monteverdi’s Opera”, Conference "Characters in Mind”, Bonn, 09.02.23 

WiSe 22/23

• Anna Bonifazi, Giuseppina dI Bartolo: "Discourse Studies - A short overview”, UzK Open Campus 2022, 29.10.2022
• Anna Bonifazi, Giuseppina dI Bartolo: "Linguistische Ansätze für literarische Texte - synchron und diachron”, Einführungsveranstaltung Komparatistik, 21.10.2022.
• Anna Bonifazi: “Introduction to iconicity in language and literature: A semiotic concept, a multidisciplinary book series, and a biennial conference”. Colloquium Komparatistik - Linguistik UzK, 20.10.2022. 

• Bonifazi, A. 2020 (online)/2021 (print). How To Do Things with keinos and autos in Tragedy: Initial Suggestions. In G. Martin, F. Iurescia, S. Hof & G. Sorrentino (eds.), Pragmatic Approaches to Drama: Studies in Communication on the Ancient Stage, 19-42. Leiden and Boston: Brill. [link from AB webpage]
• Di Bartolo, Giuseppina. 2020 online/2021 print. Studien zur griechischen Syntax dokumentarischer Papyri der römischen Zeit. Papyrologica Coloniensia XLIV. Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh.

Publikationen der ASW
Publikationen der HVS
Publikationen der Phonetik

• (in progress) The reuse of Classical myths in contemporary African-American literature: a cognitive approach – Giulia Sperduti

The project focuses on the reuse of ancient myth in the works of the African-American poet Rita Doves, from a cognitive perspective. The research and the linguistic analysis strongly revolve around the cognitive mappings emerging from Rita Dove’s narrative constructs, names, and words, with respect to the ancient Greek texts. Central concepts of cognitive-linguistic studies, such as the Conceptual Metaphor Theory and Conceptual Integration Theory are applied in order to explore cognitive models and structures at the base of Rita Dove’s creative process of re-elaboration, re-conceptualization, and re-adapation of mythical episodes and stories.

• (in progress) A Study of the Interactional Functions of Tag Questions in Jordanian Dialects in Irbid City from a Multimodal Perspective - Juman Al-qaoud

Based on transcribed audio and video recordings of casual face-to-face Jordanian Arabic conversation of 24 university students in Irbid City, this study explores the role of linguistic structures, prosodic and visual features as well as their joint effect on the construction of the different forms and interactional functions of tag questions in three Jordanian Arabic dialects. This study adopts the methodologies of conversation analysis and interactional linguistics and aims to overcome the lack of research on multimodality and tag questions in Jordanian Arabic interaction.

• (in progress) Physical objects recalled via words, image and sound in forensic science movies: modelling the cross-modal construction of co-referential chains- Pinelopi Ioannidou 

The project revolves around multimodal communication and in particular on multimodal and cross-modal references to objects in forensic science movies. The focus is how words mentioning and referring to objects are linked with diegetic images depicting the objects as well as diegetic sounds produced by the objects to constitute anaphoric expressions in co-referential chains with respect to the viewers’ perception. By implementing semantic, pragmatic, and cognitive frameworks, in combination with concepts related to telecinematic discourse, this study explores the complex processes the viewers undergo that lead them to construe the meaning of multimodal cues and connect the modal elements anaphorically to the given referents. 

• Manual annotations of more than 3.500 anaphoric expressions with people as referents in 6 short crime stories (annotations by Pinelopi Ioannidou and Zala Salarzai; coordination by Anna Bonifazi)
   

• Cologne Myth network
  After its inaugurating meeting in February 2019, the international and interdisciplinary research group “Cologne Mythological Network” was established with the aim of bringing together scholars with different academic backgrounds who share a common interest in myth and mythology. The first outcome of the group’s work has been the research seminar series Ancient Myths in Modern Art: Comparative Perspectives on Micro- and Macro-Structures, organized by (Prof. Anna Bonifazi) and Comparative Literature (Prof. Joachim Harst). The research seminar series has not only brought together speakers from different departments of the University of Cologne, but also from other academic institutions in Cologne, as well as from other parts of Germany and Europe. The group is currently planning further events dealing with myth and mythology, maintaining its highly interdisciplinary perspective and international character; anyone interested in past and future activities and events may contact Riccardo Ginevra (riccginevra[at]gmail.com) and Penelope Kolovou (penelope.kolovou[at]uni-bonn.de), coordinators of the group.