Tatjana Scheffler6d ago
🤩 I'm at the ViCom Annual meeting - in about one hour we'll present our planned work for the second phase in our ✨emojis✨ project! #vicom #visualCommunication #linguistics https://vicom.info/
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Visual Communication. Theoretical, Empirical, and Applied Perspectives Click here to register and view the program for our ViCom Annual Meeting 2026 (10. - 13. March 2026, kick-off of the second funding phase): Register Now! About ViCom ViCom investigates the special features and linguistic significance of visual communication. This comprises sign languages as fully developed natural…

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Tatjana SchefflerOct 30
🚨 Yesterday, I received official notification that our #emoji project EmDiCom is being funded for another three years! 🥳
I'm looking forward to a lot more 🤩 emoji research 🤩 together with Patrick Grosz and Lea Fricke! #linguistics #dfg #vicom @vicom https://vicom.info/projects/semantics-and-pragmatics-of-emojis-in-digital-communication/
Semantics and Pragmatics of Emojis in Digital Communication (EmDiCom)

Project Participants Patrick Georg GroszX Prof. Dr. Patrick Georg Grosz(Principal Investigator) University of [email protected] Patrick Georg Grosz is Professor of Linguistics at the Univers…

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Tatjana SchefflerApr 9, 2025
First day of the #ViCom statistics workshop on Bayesian regressions for language sciences 🤩 , by João Verissimo @vicom #Frankfurt
Show threadTatjana SchefflerNov 15, 2024
25/25 We’re up next (and last!) in the #ViCom annual meeting! We’ll be talking about our studies on the semantics and pragmatics of emojis ☺️
Show threadTatjana SchefflerNov 15, 2024
24/ Celina von Eiff and Stefan Schweinberger on emotion and speech perception in hearing people and cochlear implant users #ViCom
Show threadTatjana SchefflerNov 15, 2024
They’re looking at gestural and prosodies focus in Catalan and German #ViCom
Gesture and speech are closely aligned, eg in that the apex of a pointing #gesture occurs at the same time as the highest speech prominence (a pretty amazing feat as gesture movements are much slower than speech movements - so humans are great at aligning these different actions)
Show threadTatjana SchefflerNov 15, 2024
23/ The Multis project is presenting on their work on prosody and co-speech gesture #ViCom
Show threadTatjana SchefflerNov 15, 2024
22/ Martin Schulte-Rüther is researching visual communication in clinical applications #ViCom
Show threadTatjana SchefflerNov 15, 2024
21/ Šárka Kadavá is presenting on gesture / speech coordination #ViCom
They used a lab experiment where two people play charades either with gesture, speech, or both
Show threadTatjana SchefflerNov 15, 2024
20/ Lisa-Marie Krause is talking about pointing and uncertainty resulting from the different viewpoints of the pointer and observer #ViCom