Principal Investigator
Annika Herrmann is a professor for Sign Languages and Sign Language Interpreting at the Institute of German Sign Language and Communication of the Deaf (IDGS) at Universität Hamburg. Her research interests are theoretical and empirical sign language research, as well as experimental psycholinguistics. She received her PhD from University of Frankfurt am Main in 2010. After receiving her PhD, she was the Director of the Experimental Sign Language Lab at the Georg-August-University of Göttingen, has worked as a substitute professor for linguistics at the University of Cologne, and as a research assistant in an EEG-project at the University of Mainz. Annika Herrmann is co-director of the DGS-Korpus project and also co-editor of the series ‘Sign Languages and Deaf Communities’.
About
University of Hamburg
annika.herrmann@uni-hamburg.de
Project
Iconic Metaphors and the Gesture-sign Interface in German Sign Language – Corpus Data Meet Experiments (IMaGeS)
Selected Publications
- Herrmann, A. & M. Steinbach. 2019. Expressive Gesten – expressive Bedeutungen. Expressivität in gebärdensprachlichen Erzählungen. In d’Avis, F. & R. Finkbeiner (eds.), Expressivität im Deutschen. Berlin: de Gruyter, 313–337.
- Herrmann, A. & N.-K. Pendzich. 2018. Between narrator and protagonist in fables of German Sign Language. In Hübl, A. & M. Steinbach (eds.), Linguistic Foundations of Narration in Spoken and Sign Languages. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 275–308.
- Herrmann, A. & N.-K. Pendzich. 2014. Nonmanual gestures in sign languages. In Müller, C., A. Cienki, E. Fricke, S. H. Ladewig, D. McNeill & J. Bressem (eds.), Handbook Body – Language – Communication. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 2147–2160.
- Quer, J., R. Pfau & A. Herrmann. 2021. The Routledge Handbook of theoretical and experimental sign language research. London New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.
- Wienholz, A., D. Nuhbalaoglu, M. Steinbach, A. Herrmann & N. Mani. 2021. Phonological priming in German Sign Language: An eye tracking study using the visual world paradigm. Sign Language & Linguistics 24(1). 4– 35.