Cornelia Müller Explained

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.

External links

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Chair: Prof. Dr. Cornelia Müller. 2016. Chair for Language Use and Multimodal Communication, Prof. Dr. Cornelia Müller. The Faculty of Social and Cultural Sciences.
2. Web site: Faculty of Cultural and Social Sciences. 2016. The Faculty of Social and Cultural Sciences.
3. Web site: A brief history of the origins of the ISGS. Müller. Cornelia. ISGS: International Society for Gesture Studies. https://web.archive.org/web/20161011231434/http://www.gesturestudies.com/history.php. 2016-10-11. dead.
4. Web site: Gesture Issues. 2016. benjamins.com. Benjamins. 2016-10-11.
5. Web site: Gesture Editorial Board. benjamins.com. 2016-10-11.
6. Web site: Publications. 2016.
7. Web site: ISGS 2010. Ladewig. Silva. www.isgs2010.de. 2016-10-11.