research subjects
gesture-speech integration – gestural realization of syntactic slots (selected)
Ladewig, Silva H. (2020). Integrating Gestures. The Dimension of Multimodality in Cognitive Grammar. Berlin/Amsterdam: De Gruyter Mouton.
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Ladewig, Silva H. (2019). Konzeptuelle Integration von Sprache und Geste am Beispiel gestisch vervollständigter Äußerungen In: Mitteilungen des Deutschen Germanistenverbandes 66:4, 393–401.
Ladewig, Silva H. (2014). Creating multimodal utterances. The linear integration of gestures into speech. In: Cornelia Müller, Alan Cienki, Ellen Fricke, Silva H. Ladewig, David McNeill & Jana Bressem (eds.), Body-Language-Communication: An International Handbook on Multimodality in Human Interaction. (Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science 38.2.) Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter: Mouton, 1662–1677.
Ladewig, Silva H. (2012). Syntactic and semantic integration of gestures into speech – Structural, cognitive, and conceptual aspects. PhD thesis, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder).
stabilization of meaning – grammaticalization in gestures (selected)
Ladewig, Silva H. (in preparation). Processes of sedimentation in spoken and signed languages. Habilitation project.
Ladewig, Silva H. (to appear). Recurrent gestures. In: Alan Cienki (ed.) The Cambridge Handbook of Gesture Studies.
Harrison, Simon, Silva H. Ladewig & Jana Bressem (2021), The diversity of recurrency: Recurrent gesture cross-linguistically, Special Issue of Gesture (20(2)).
Ladewig, Silva H. & Lena Hotze (to appear). From action to performative gesture. The Slapping movement used by children at the age of four to six, Semiotica.
Ladewig, Silva H. & Lena Hotze (2020). Von der Handlung zur performativen Geste. Eine Untersuchung der Wegschlagegeste im Erstspracherwerb. In: Michael Elmentaler & Oliver Niebuhr (eds.) An den Rändern der Sprache. Peter Lang, 327–357.
Ladewig, Silva H. (2014). Recurrent gestures. In: Cornelia Müller, Alan Cienki, Ellen Fricke, Silva H. Ladewig, David McNeill & Jana Bressem (eds.), Body-Language-Communication: An International Handbook on Multimodality in Human Interaction. (Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science 38.2.) Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter: Mouton, 1558– 1575.
Ladewig, Silva H. (2014). The cyclic gesture. In: Cornelia Müller, Alan Cienki, Ellen Fricke, Silva H. Ladewig, David McNeill & Jana Bressem (eds.), Body-Language-Communication: An International Handbook on Multimodality in Human Interaction. (Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science 38.2.) Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter: Mouton, 1605–1618.
Ladewig, Silva H. & Jana Bressem (2013). New insights into the medium hand – Discovering structures in gestures on the basis of the four parameters of sign language, Semiotica 197: 203–231.
Ladewig, Silva H. (2011). Putting the cyclic gesture on a cognitive basis. CogniTextes 6.
Ladewig, Silva H. (2010). Beschreiben, suchen und auffordern–Varianten einer rekurrenten Geste, Zeitschrift für Sprache und Literatur 41:1, 89–111.
emergence of multimodal meaning in discourse – dynamics and temporality (selected)
Horst, Dorothea & Silva H. Ladewig (in press/2022). Medienästhetische Grundierung multimodal vermittelter Leiblichkeit am Beispiel eines Yoga-Tutorials In: Luginbühl, Martin & Dorothee Meer (eds.) Parainteraktion in den Medien – Multimodale Perspektiven in TV, Radio und Hypermedien.
Ladewig, Silva H. & Lena Hotze (2021). The Slapping movement as an embodied practice of dislike: Inter-affectivity in interactions among children. In: Harrison, Simon, Silva H. Ladewig & Jana Bressem (eds.), The diversity of recurrency: Recurrent gesture cross-linguistically, (Special Issue of Gesture 20(2)), 285–312.
Ladewig, Silva H. (2020). Integrating Gestures. The Dimension of Multimodality in Cognitive Grammar, ch. 5. De Gruyter Mouton (Series “Applications of Cognitive Linguistics” (ACL)).
Ladewig, Silva H. & Lena Hotze (2020). Zur temporalen Entfaltung und multimodalen Orchestrierung von konzeptuellen Räumen am Beispiel einer Erzählung. In: Zima, Elisabeth & Clarissa Weiß (eds). Multimodales Erzählen. Special Issue of Linguistik online 104, 4/20, 109–136.
Müller, Cornelia & Silva H. Ladewig (2013). Metaphors for sensorimotor experiences. Gestures as embodied and dynamic conceptualizations of balance in dance lessons. In: Borkent, Mike, Barbara Dancygier, and Jennifer Hinnell (eds.) Language and the Creative Mind. Stanford: CSLI, 295–324.
Kolter, Astrid, Silva H. Ladewig, Michela Summa, Sabine Koch, Thomas Fuchs & Cornelia Müller (2012). Body memory and the emergence of metaphor in movement and speech. An interdisciplinary case study. In: Koch, Sabine, Thomas Fuchs & Cornelia Müller (Eds.) Body Memory, Metaphor, and Movement. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 201–226.
linguistic approach to gestures (selected)
Ladewig, Silva H. (2020). Integrating Gestures. Integrating Gestures. The Dimension of Multimodality in Cognitive Grammar. De Gruyter Mouton (Series “Applications of Cognitive Linguistics” (ACL)).
Ladewig, Silva H. & Jana Bressem (2013). The notation of gesture phases – a linguistic perspective. In: Cornelia Müller, Alan Cienki, Ellen Fricke, Silva H. Ladewig, David McNeill and Sedinha Teßendorf (eds.), Body-Language-Communication: An International Handbook on Multimodality in Human Interaction. (Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science 38.1.) Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 1060–1078.
Ladewig, Silva H. & Jana Bressem (2013). New insights into the medium hand – Discovering structures in gestures on the basis of the four parameters of sign language, Semiotica 197: 203–231.
Bressem, Jana, Silva H. Ladewig & Cornelia Müller (2013). A linguistic annotation system for gestures. In: Müller, Cornelia, Alan Cienki, Ellen Fricke, Silva H. Ladewig, David McNeill and Sedinha Teßendorf (eds.), Body-Language-Communication: An International Handbook on Multimodality in Human Interaction. (Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science 38.1.) Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 1094–1124.
Müller, Cornelia, Jana Bressem & Silva H. Ladewig (2013). Towards a grammar of gesture – a form-based view. In: Müller, Cornelia, Alan Cienki, Ellen Fricke, Silva H. Ladewig, David McNeill and Sedinha Teßendorf (eds.), Body-Language-Communication: An International Handbook on Multimodality in Human Interaction. (Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science 38.1.) Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 707–733.
Müller, Cornelia, Silva H. Ladewig & Jana Bressem (2013). Gesture and speech from a linguistic point of view – A new field and its history. In: Müller, Cornelia, Alan Cienki, Ellen Fricke, Silva H. Ladewig, David McNeill and Sedinha Teßendorf (eds.), Body-Language-Communication: An International Handbook on Multimodality in Human Interaction. (Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science 38.1.) Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 55–81.
Bressem, Jana & Silva H. Ladewig (2011). Rethinking gesture phases – articulatory features of gestural movement?, Semiotica 184:1/4, 53–91.
all publications
monographs
Ladewig, Silva H. (2020). Integrating Gestures. Integrating Gestures. The Dimension of Multimodality in Cognitive Grammar. Berlin/Amsterdam: De Gruyter Mouton.
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Müller, Cornelia, Jana Bressem & Silva H. Ladewig (forthcoming). Gesture and Language (Textbook), Routledge.
Ladewig, Silva H. (2012). Syntactic and semantic integration of gestures into speech – Structural, cognitive, and conceptual aspects. Dissertation thesis, European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder).
edited volumes
Cornelia Müller, Alan Cienki, Ellen Fricke, Silva H. Ladewig, David McNeill & Jana Bressem (Eds.) (2014). Body-Language-Communication: An International Handbook on Multimodality in Human Interaction. Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft / Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science (HSK) 38/2 Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter: Mouton.
Cornelia Müller, Alan Cienki, Ellen Fricke, Silva H. Ladewig, David McNeill & Sedinha Tessendorf (Eds.) (2013). Body-Language-Communication: An International Handbook on Multimodality in Human Interaction. Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft / Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science (HSK) 38/1 Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter: Mouton.
Harrison, Simon, Silva H. Ladewig & Jana Bressem (eds.), The diversity of recurrency: Recurrent gesture cross-linguistically, submitted to Gesture.
Journal papers (peer-reviewed)
Hirrel, Laura & Silva H. Ladewig (in preparation). The embodied nature of aspect – a cross-linguistic comparison of the cyclic gesture in English, Farsi, and German.
Ladewig, Silva H. & Lena Hotze (to appear). From action to performative gesture. The Slapping movement used by children at the age of four to six, Semiotica.
Ladewig, Silva H. & Lena Hotze (2021). The Slapping movement as an embodied practice of dislike: Inter-affectivity in interactions among children. In: Harrison, Simon, Silva H. Ladewig & Jana Bressem (eds.), The diversity of recurrency: Recurrent gesture cross-linguistically, (Special Issue of Gesture 20(2)), 285–312.
Harrison, Simon & Silva H. Ladewig (2021). Recurrent gestures throughout bodies, languages, and cultural practices. . In: Harrison, Simon, Silva H. Ladewig & Jana Bressem (eds.), The diversity of recurrency: Recurrent gesture cross-linguistically, (Special Issue of Gesture).
Ladewig, Silva H. & Lena Hotze (2020). Zur temporalen Entfaltung und multimodalen Orchestrierung von konzeptuellen Räumen am Beispiel einer Erzählung. In: Zima, Elisabeth & Clarissa Weiß (eds). Multimodales Erzählen. Special Issue of Linguistik online 104, 4/20, 109–136.
Ladewig, Silva H. (2019). Konzeptuelle Integration von Sprache und Geste am Beispiel gestisch vervollständigter Äußerungen In: Mitteilungen des Deutschen Germanistenverbandes 66:4. 393–401.
Ladewig, Silva H. (2011). Putting the cyclic gesture on a cognitive basis. CogniTextes 6.
Ladewig, Silva H. (2010). Beschreiben, suchen und auffordern–Varianten einer rekurrenten Geste, Zeitschrift für Sprache und Literatur 41:1, 89-111.
Ladewig, Silva H. & Jana Bressem (2013). New insights into the medium hand – Discovering structures in gestures on the basis of the four parameters of sign language, Semiotica 197: 203-231.
Bressem, Jana & Silva H. Ladewig (2011). Rethinking gesture phases – articulatory features of gestural movement?, Semiotica 184:1/4, 53-91.
book chapters
Ladewig, Silva H. (2018). Gesten als Teil von Sprache – Die moderne Gestenforschung, In: Moike Jessen, Johan Bloomberg & Jörg Roche (eds.) Kognitive Linguistik. (Kompendium DaF/DaZ, Vol. 2) Narr Verlag, 290-300. (digitales Lexikon)
Ladewig, Silva H. (2018). Gesten und ihre Bedeutung, In: Moike Jessen, Johan Bloomberg & Jörg Roche (eds.) Kognitive Linguistik. (Kompendium DaF/DaZ, Vol. 2). Tübingen: Narr Verlag, 300-312. (digitales Lexikon)
book chapters (peer-reviewed)
Horst, Dorothea & Silva H. Ladewig (in press/2022). Medienästhetische Grundierung multimodal vermittelter Leiblichkeit am Beispiel eines Yoga-Tutorials. to appear in in Luginbühl, Martin & Dorothee Meer (eds.) Parainteraktion in den Medien – Multimodale Perspektiven in TV, Radio und Hypermedien.
Ladewig, Silva H. (to appear). Recurrent gestures. In: Alan Cienki (ed.) The Cambridge Handbook of Gesture Studies.
Ladewig, Silva H. & Lena Hotze (2020). Von der Handlung zur performativen Geste. Eine Untersuchung der Wegschlagegeste im Erstspracherwerb. In: Michael Elmentaler & Oliver Niebuhr (eds.) An den Rändern der Sprache. Peter Lang, 327–357.
Bressem Jana, Silva H. Ladewig & Cornelia Müller (2018). Ways of expressing action in multimodal narrations – The semiotic complexity of character viewpoint depictions. In: Anika Hübl und Markus Steinbach (eds.) Linguistic Foundations of Narration in Spoken and Sign Languages. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 223-249.
Ladewig, Silva H. (2014). Recurrent gestures. In: Cornelia Müller, Alan Cienki, Ellen Fricke, Silva H. Ladewig, David McNeill & Jana Bressem (eds.), Body-Language-Communication: An International Handbook on Multimodality in Human Interaction. (Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science 38.2.) Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter: Mouton, 1558- 1575.
Ladewig, Silva H. (2014). Creating multimodal utterances. The linear integration of gestures into speech. In: Cornelia Müller, Alan Cienki, Ellen Fricke, Silva H. Ladewig, David McNeill & Jana Bressem (eds.), Body-Language-Communication: An International Handbook on Multimodality in Human Interaction. (Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science 38.2.) Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter: Mouton, 1662–1677.
Ladewig, Silva H. (2014). The cyclic gesture. In: Cornelia Müller, Alan Cienki, Ellen Fricke, Silva H. Ladewig, David McNeill & Jana Bressem (eds.), Body-Language-Communication: An International Handbook on Multimodality in Human Interaction. (Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science 38.2.) Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter: Mouton, 1605–1618.
Ladewig, Silva H. & Jana Bressem (2013). The notation of gesture phases – a linguistic perspective. In: Cornelia Müller, Alan Cienki, Ellen Fricke, Silva H. Ladewig, David McNeill and Sedinha Teßendorf (eds.), Body-Language-Communication: An International Handbook on Multimodality in Human Interaction. (Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science 38.1.) Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 1060–1078.
Müller, Cornelia & Silva H. Ladewig (2013). Metaphors for sensorimotor experiences. Gestures as embodied and dynamic conceptualizations of balance in dance lessons. In: Borkent, Mike, Barbara Dancygier, and Jennifer Hinnell (eds.) Language and the Creative Mind. Stanford: CSLI, 295-324.
Bressem, Jana, Silva H. Ladewig und Cornelia Müller (2013). A linguistic annotation system for gestures. In: Müller, Cornelia, Alan Cienki, Ellen Fricke, Silva H. Ladewig, David McNeill and Sedinha Teßendorf (eds.), Body-Language-Communication: An International Handbook on Multimodality in Human Interaction. (Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science 38.1.) Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 1094-1124.
Müller, Cornelia, Jana Bressem und Silva H. Ladewig (2013). Towards a grammar of gesture – a form-based view. In: Müller, Cornelia, Alan Cienki, Ellen Fricke, Silva H. Ladewig, David McNeill and Sedinha Teßendorf (eds.), Body-Language-Communication: An International Handbook on Multimodality in Human Interaction. (Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science 38.1.) Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 707-733.
Müller, Cornelia, Silva H. Ladewig und Jana Bressem (2013). Gesture and speech from a linguistic point of view – A new field and its history. In: Müller, Cornelia, Alan Cienki, Ellen Fricke, Silva H. Ladewig, David McNeill and Sedinha Teßendorf (eds.), Body-Language-Communication: An International Handbook on Multimodality in Human Interaction. (Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science 38.1.) Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton, 55-81.
Kolter, Astrid, Silva H. Ladewig, Michela Summa, Sabine Koch, Thomas Fuchs & Cornelia Müller (2012). Body memory and the emergence of metaphor in movement and speech. An interdisciplinary case study. In: Koch, Sabine, Thomas Fuchs & Cornelia Müller (Eds.) Body Memory, Metaphor, and Movement. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 201-226.
reviews
Ladewig, Silva H. & Jana Bressem (2009). Review: Ulrike Bohle, Das Wort ergreifen – das Wort übergeben. Explorative Studie zur Rolle redebegleitender Gesten in der Organisation des Sprecherwechsels. Berlin: Weidler Verlag 2007 In: Gesprächsforschung- Online-Zeitschrift zur verbalen Interaktion. 10, 1-11.
non-scientific contributions
Ladewig, Silva H. & Paul Kramer (2016). Andere Länder, andere Gesten, published at the website of „Haus der kleinen Forscher“.
Ladewig, Silva H., Franziska Boll, Dorothea Horst, Lena Hotze, Benjamin Marienfeld & Larissa Rombold (2016). Bedeutung (be)greifen. Metapher in gesprochener Sprache und Geste. Veröffentlicht im Rahmen der Sonderausstellung „Sprache“ im Deutschen Hygienemuseum Dresden.