Theoretical, Empirical, and Applied Perspectives
ViCom investigates the special features and linguistic significance of visual communication. This comprises sign languages as fully developed natural languages which exclusively rely on the visual channel for communication, but also visual means that enhance spoken language such as gestures. It aims at disclosing the specific characteristics of the visual modality as a communication channel and its interaction with other channels (especially the auditory channel) to develop a comprehensive theoretical linguistic model of human communication and its cognitive foundations.
Some of what we do
All projects are organised in at least one of 6 project clusters corresponding
to the different research objects relevant for ViCom.
We are delighted to share that the ViCom project Co-speech gestures and prosody as multimodal markers of information structure (MultIS)…
Professor Cornelia Ebert of the Goethe-Universität Frankfurt took part in the first Science Talk of the Kultur in der Ruine…
On May 12, the new ViCom short-term collaboration “The Analysis of Referee Gestures as a Visual Communication System in Football“…