Cornelia Müller

Cornelia Müller is a linguist who works on pragmatic features of semantics, particularly metaphors in gesture.[1] She is the Chair for Language Use and Multimodal Communication at Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder).[2] Müller along with Adam Kendon was a founding editor[3] of Gesture, a peer reviewed journal published since 2001,[4] and is a current member of the editorial board.[5] Müller was also a founding editor of the Gesture Studies monograph series for Benjamins, with Kendon, from 2000-2009.[6] Müller was a program chair for the 4th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS) in 2010.[7]

Selected publications
  • Müller, Cornelia, Alan Cienki, Ellen Fricke, Silva H. Ladewig, David McNeill and Sedinha Teßendorf (eds). 2013. Body – Language – Communication: An International Handbook on Multimodality in Human Interaction, Vol. 1. (Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science 38.1.). Berlin/ Boston: De Gruyter Mouton.
  • Müller, Cornelia, Alan Cienki, Ellen Fricke, Silva H. Ladewig, David McNeill and Jana Bressem (eds). 2014. Body – Language – Communication: An International Handbook on Multimodality in Human Interaction, Vol. 2. (Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science 38.2.). Berlin/ Boston: De Gruyter Mouton.
  • Müller, Cornelia. 2008. Metaphors Dead and Alive, Sleeping and Waking. A Dynamic View. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Müller, Cornelia and Roland Posner (eds). 2004. The semantics and pragmatics of everyday gestures. Berlin: Weidler.
gollark: And a quota for "10 tons of nails", so they made a single 10-ton nail.
gollark: There were things with Soviet truck depots driving trucks in circles pointlessly because they had a quota of "40000 miles driven".
gollark: If your factory is told to make 100K units of winter clothing of any kind they will probably just go for the simplest/easiest one, even if it isn't very useful to have 100K winter coats (extra small) (plain white). Now, you could say "but in capitalism they'll just make the cheapest one", but companies are directly subservient to what consumers actually want and can't get away with that.
gollark: That is why we have the "legal system"./
gollark: With a government.

References
  1. "Chair: Prof. Dr. Cornelia Müller". Chair for Language Use and Multimodal Communication, Prof. Dr. Cornelia Müller. The Faculty of Social and Cultural Sciences. 2016.
  2. "Faculty of Cultural and Social Sciences". The Faculty of Social and Cultural Sciences. 2016.
  3. Müller, Cornelia. "A brief history of the origins of the ISGS". ISGS: International Society for Gesture Studies. Archived from the original on 2016-10-11.
  4. "Gesture Issues". benjamins.com. Benjamins. 2016. Retrieved 2016-10-11.
  5. "Gesture Editorial Board". benjamins.com. Retrieved 2016-10-11.
  6. "Publications". 2016.
  7. Ladewig, Silva. "ISGS 2010". www.isgs2010.de. Retrieved 2016-10-11.

Faculty page at Europa-Universität Viadrina: https://www.kuwi.europa-uni.de/en/lehrstuhl/sw/sw0/lehrstuhlinhaberin/index.html

History of the ISGS (written by Müller): https://web.archive.org/web/20161011231434/http://www.gesturestudies.com/history.php

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