publications
research subjects
gesture-speech integration – gestural realization of syntactic slots (selected)
Ladewig, Silva H. (in press). Integrating Gestures. Cognitive grammar multimodal. Berlin/Amsterdam: De Gruyter Mouton.
Ladewig, Silva H. (to appear). Konzeptuelle Integration von Sprache und Geste am Beispiel gestisch vervollständigter Äußerungen In: Mitteilungen des Deutschen Germanistenverbandes 66:4.
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).
emergence of meaning – grammaticalization in gestures (selected)
Ladewig, Silva H. (in preparation). From movement to linguistic structure. Processes of grammaticalization and semanticization in gesture. Habilitation project.
Ladewig, Silva H. (in preparation). Recurrent gestures. In: Alan Cienki (ed.) The Cambridge Handbook of Gesture Studies.
Harrison, Simon, Silva H. Ladewig & Jana Bressem (eds.), The diversity of recurrency: Recurrent gesture cross-linguistically, will be submitted to Gesture.
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, in Harrison, Simon, Silva H. Ladewig & Jana Bressem (eds.), The diversity of recurrency: Recurrent gesture cross-linguistically. Special Issue of Gesture.
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)
Ladewig, Silva H. (in press). Integrating Gestures. Cognitive grammar multimodal, ch. 5. De Gruyter Mouton (Series “Applications of Cognitive Linguistics” (ACL)).
Ladewig, Silva H. & Lena Hotze (forthcoming). Erzählen als dynamischer multimodaler Prozess. In: Zima, Elisabeth & Clarissa Weiß (eds). Multimodales Erzählen.
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)
Hotze, Lena & Silva H. Ladewig (in preparation). Sprechen und Gestik. In: Michael Elmentaler & Oliver Niebuhr (eds.) An den Rändern der Sprache (Kieler Forschungen zur Sprachwissenschaft). Peter Lang.
Ladewig, Silva H. (in press). Integrating Gestures. Cognitive grammar multimodal. 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 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.
Bressem, Jana & Silva H. Ladewig (2011). Rethinking gesture phases – articulatory features of gestural movement?, Semiotica 184:1/4, 53-91.
all publications
monographs
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, will be 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, in Harrison, Simon, Silva H. Ladewig & Jana Bressem (eds.), The diversity of recurrency: Recurrent gesture cross-linguistically. Special Issue of Gesture.
Ladewig, Silva H. (to appear). Konzeptuelle Integration von Sprache und Geste am Beispiel gestisch vervollständigter Äußerungen In: Mitteilungen des Deutschen Germanistenverbandes 66:4.
Ladewig, Silva H. & Lena Hotze (forthcoming). Erzählen als dynamischer multimodaler Prozess. In: Zima, Elisabeth & Clarissa Weiß (eds). Multimodales Erzählen.
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. (in preparation). Recurrent gestures. In: Alan Cienki (ed.) The Cambridge Handbook of Gesture Studies.
Hotze, Lena & Silva H. Ladewig (in preparation). Spreche und Gestik. In: Michael Elmentaler & Oliver Niebuhr (eds.) An den Rändern der Sprache (Kieler Forschungen zur Sprachwissenschaft). Peter Lang.
Ladewig, Silva H. (forthcoming). Gestures as part of language – The field of modern gesture studies. In: Moike Jessen, Johan Bloomberg & Jörg Roche (eds.) Cognitive Linguistics.
Ladewig, Silva H. (forthcoming) Gestural meaning. In: Moike Jessen, Johan Bloomberg & Jörg Roche (eds.) Cognitive Linguistics.
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)
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.
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.
