German Sign Language and
Communication of the Deaf
Photo: UHH/Denstorf
1 March 2022, by Pamela Sundhausen
Photo: IDGS
The 44th annual conference of the German Linguistic Society (DGfS), hosted by the University of Tübingen, took place online from February 23rd to 25th, 2022. Various workshops focused on different topics with talks and posters. The workshop 5: Visual communication. New theoretical and empirical developments, organized by Cornelia Ebert, Clemens Steiner-Mayr, and Markus Steinbach, approached, among other things, current theoretical and empirical advances in various aspects of multi-modal communication.
Our PhD student Sarah Bauer gave a talk entitled "Looking at place of articulation as a first approach to identifying metaphors in German Sign Language (DGS) in the domain of cognition". She presented her current research on metaphors in DGS in the domain of cognition and discussed a method for identifying them. Using the iconic location head, potential metaphors in the domain of cognition can be determined in the DGS corpus and identified via the double-mapping.