Visual and non-visual means of perspective taking in language

• Applicants: Professorin Dr. Cornelia Ebert; Professor Dr. Stefan Hinterwimmer
• Subject Area: General and Comparative Linguistics, Experimental Linguistics, Typology, Non-European Languages
• Term: since 2022
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 502020307

Our project aims at empirically investigating fundamental questions that have not been pursued systematically so far concerning the way in which linguistic and gestural viewpoints may interact, overlap, and complement each other. This will then provide the basis for the development of a formal semantic model that can account for viewpoint phenomena in both modalities, building on semantic models of perspective taking in spoken or written language, in sign language, and models of gesture-speech interaction.

• DFG Programme: Priority Programmes
• Subproject of: SPP 2392: Visual communication. Theoretical, empirical, and applied perspectives (ViCom)