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

• G. di Bartolo, Sociolinguistic and semiotic remarks on Greek petitions, Ghent, October 3-5, 2019
• A. Bonifazi, "Was hat die griechische Partikellehre mit dem Sinne des Lebens zu thun?” (F. Nietzsche) What ancient Greek particles tell us about language use", Antrittsvorlesung, University of Cologne, January 2020
• G. Sperduti, Conceptual metaphors in the reuse of Classical myths in African-American female writers, 13th RaAM conference, online, June 2020

• 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.

• Manual annotations of more than 3.000 anaphoric expressions with people as referents in 5 short crime stories (annotations by P. Ioannidou and Z. 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.