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

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  • 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.

References

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  1. ^ "Chair: Prof. Dr. Cornelia Müller". Chair for Language Use and Multimodal Communication, Prof. Dr. Cornelia Müller. The Faculty of Social and Cultural Sciences. 2016.
  2. ^ "Faculty of Cultural and Social Sciences". The Faculty of Social and Cultural Sciences. 2016.
  3. ^ Müller, Cornelia. "A brief history of the origins of the ISGS". ISGS: International Society for Gesture Studies. Archived from the original on 2016-10-11.
  4. ^ "Gesture Issues". benjamins.com. Benjamins. 2016. Retrieved 2016-10-11.
  5. ^ "Gesture Editorial Board". benjamins.com. Retrieved 2016-10-11.
  6. ^ "Publications". 2016.
  7. ^ Ladewig, Silva. "ISGS 2010". www.isgs2010.de. Retrieved 2016-10-11.
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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