Talks and Events

SoSe 2024

• Juman Al-qaoud, "Repetition patterns of self vs. others prior to tag questions", Summer School "Languages in Interaction”, University of Heidelberg & Leibniz-Institute for German Language, Mannheim, Germany, September 2024.
• Pinelopi Ioannidou, ‘‘Physical objects recalled via words, images, and sound in mystery movies: the construction of co-referential chains in language and other semiotic systems’’, IACS-5 Conference, Lund, Sweden, August 2024.
• Anna Bonifazi, "Intensifying experiential blending: “Design for terror” in different oral/orally-based traditions". Paper delivered at the International Association for Cognitive Semiotics Conference, Lund, Sweden, August 2024.
• Anna Bonifazi, "Design for terror' in oral traditions: a cognitive approach". Conference Cognitive Futures 2024: From 4E to 5E Cognition: about Emotions, University of Catania, Italy, June 2024.
• Anna Bonifazi, Madeleine Pikowsky, “Pettson, Findus, and cows: Iconicity meets meta-narration”. Conference Iconicity in Language and Literature 14, University of Catania, Italy, June 2024.
• Anna Bonifazi, "Aspetti cognitivi e pragmatici delle espressioni anaforiche. Il giallo classico come caso di studio”. Invited lecture, University of Pavia, Italy, May 2024

WiSe 2023/2024

• Anna Bonifazi, “Multimodal segmentation in an oral epic song”. Invited paper at a workshop on larger discourse units in (spoken) language, CERN, Paris, France, March 2024.
• Pinelopi Ioannidou, "Physical objects recalled via words, images, and sound in forensic science movies: modelling the cross-modal construction of co-referential chains’’, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Germany, January 2024.
• Anna Bonifazi, “Filologia greca, pragmatica e cognizione: spunti teorici e pratici”. Invited lecture, Università Cattolica, Milan, Italy, November 2023.

SoSe 2023

• Giuseppina di Bartolo, “Where and How? Request verb constructions in Ancient Greek”, International Conference on Historical Linguuistics 2023 / ICHL 26 (General Session: Pragmatics, discourse), Heidelberg, Germany, 04.09.–08.09.2023.

• Giuseppina di Bartolo, “Clause linkage strategies in Ancient Greek: the usage of epeí in documentary papyri”, 56th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea / SLE 2023 (General Session: Clause-linkage), Athens, Greece, 29.08.–01.09.2023.

• Giuseppina di Bartolo, “Clause linkage strategies in colloquial Ancient Greek: The case of hôste in documentary papyri” (Panel: Clause combining at the discourse-grammar interface: Answers from coordination, subordination and insubordination), International Pragmatics Association Conference, Bruxelles, Belgium, 09.07.–14.07.2023

• Juman Al-qaoud, “Post-positioned tag questions in pursuit of response: A multimodal approach”, International Pragmatics Association Conference, Bruxelles, Belgium, 09.07.–14.07.2023

• Anna Bonifazi and Pinelopi Ioannidou, “Inferring gaps of knowledge from anaphoric expressions in detective stories” (Panel: The pragmatics of the referential process and its interpretations), International Pragmatics Association Conference, Bruxelles, Belgium, 09.07.–14.07.2023

• 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

• Poetry reading with Rita Dove, Cologne, 23-24 May 2023
• Anna Bonifazi: "Tears in music: towards a cognitive-semiotic account", University of Niš, Serbia, 22.03.2023
• Anna Bonifazi: "Character Migration Through Multimodality: Orpheus From Early Texts to Monteverdi’s Opera”, Conference "Characters in Mind”, Bonn, Germany, 09.02.2023 

WiSe 2022/2023

• 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. 

SoSe 2022

• Riccardo Ginevra : “Between traditional possibility and impossible reality: Compressed mímēsis in Homeric poetry”, Auerbach Institute UzK (research collaboration with Anna Bonifazi) 20.06.2022

SoSe 2021

Guest talks within Colloquium "Musik, Sprache und Bedeutung”/“Music, language and meaning”:

• John Du Bois, UCSB: “Word Play: Fun with Resonance in Conversation and Art” 22.06.2021
• Birgit Hellwig, UzK: "Repetition and variation in child language: Perspectives from Papua New Guinea” 29.06.2021
• Cristóbal Pagán Cánovas, Univ. of Murcia: The FORMULEARN project: Formulaic creativity and the origins of language and music”, 13.07.2021

WiSe 2020/2021

Guest talks within Colloquium Komparatistik- Linguistik  "Detektive Lesen: Literaturwissenschaftliche und linguistische Aspekte”:

• Pinelopi Ioannidou, Zala Salarzai: ''Detecting and perceiving crime story-cues: how annotating anaphoric expressions changes the experience of reading'', 10.12.2020