230250 Creativity in multimodal communication (S) (SoSe 2026)
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People in face to face interaction communicate multimodally, combining speech with nonverbal actions including hand gestures, head movements and facial expressions. This course examines the notion of creativity in multimodal communication, from two perspectives. The first is creativity within multimodal communication itself, i.e., what makes a gesture, or combination of speech and gesture, creative? The second is the interaction between multimodal communication and creativity elsewhere, i.e., how does speech and gesture production influence performance in various creative tasks, and vice versa? After a brief general introduction to gesture studies, the bulk of the course will consist of readings and classroom discussions of recent work exploring these issues.
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| Frequency | Weekday | Time | Format / Place | Period | |
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| weekly | Mi | 10-12 | U5-211 | 13.04.-24.07.2026 |
Subject assignments
| Module | Course | Requirements | |
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| 23-LIN-MaDYK Language Dynamics, Interaction and Cognition Language Dynamics, Interaction and Cognition | Lehrveranstaltung 1 | Study requirement
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| Lehrveranstaltung 2 | Study requirement
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| 23-LIN-MaPL Models of Language Processing Models of Language Processing | Lehrveranstaltung 1 | Study requirement
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| Lehrveranstaltung 2 | Study requirement
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- seminar (S) / 2
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- This lecture is taught in english
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- Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies
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