ESSLLI Summer School

Welcome to the dedicated ESSLLI Summer School section.  Here you will be able to access and download the slides, the reading list and selected papers from my sessions.

Click here for the full reading list.

Session 01: General introduction into the semantics of visual communication

Slides for Session 01, 08/07

Session 2: Gesture semantics 

Slides for Session 02, 08/08

Ebert, C. (t.a.). The semantics of gesture. To appear in Annual Review.

Further reading:

Ebert, Ch., C. Ebert & R. Hörnig (2020). Demonstratives as dimension shifters. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 24, 161-178.

Schlenker, Ph. (2018). Gesture Projection and Cosuppositions. Linguistics & Philosophy 41(3), 295-365.

Session 3: Sign language semantics

Slides for Session 03, 08/09

Steinbach, M. (2023). Angry lions and scared neighbors: Complex demonstrations in sign language role shift at the sign-gesture interface. Linguistics 61(2), 391-416.

further reading: 

Clark, H.H & R.G. Gerrig (1990). Quotations as demonstrations. Language 66, 764-805.

Davidson, K. (2015). Quotation, demonstration, and iconicity. Linguistics and Philosophy 38(6), 477-520.

Session 4: The semantics of emojis

Slides for Session 04, 08/10

Grosz, P.G., G. Greenberg, C. De Leon & E. Kaiser (2023). A semantics of face emoji in discourse. Linguistics and Philosophy.

further reading:

Maier, E. (2021). Emoji as pictures. To appear in Ergo.

Session 5: Experimental studies and final discussion

Sildes for Session 05, 08/11

Ebert, Ch., C. Ebert & R. Hörnig (2020). Demonstratives as dimension shifters. Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 24, pp. 161-178.

Wienholz, A. et al. (2018). Pointing to the Right Side? An ERP Study on Anaphora Resolution in German Sign Language. In: PLoS ONE, 13(9), 1-19, e0204223.

further reading:

Tieu, L., Pasternak, R., Schlenker, Ph., & Chemla, E. (2017). Co-speech gesture projection: Evidence from truth-value judgment and picture selection tasks. Glossa, vol. 2, article 102.

Tieu, L., Pasternak, R., Schlenker, Ph., & Chemla, E. (2018). Co-speech gesture projection: Evidence from inferential judgments. Glossa, Vol. 3, article 109.