Cornelia Müller

List of John Benjamins publications for which Cornelia Müller plays a role.

Book series

Metaphor in Language, Cognition, and Communication (MiLCC)

Titles

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Aspectuality across Languages: Event construal in speech and gesture

Edited by Alan Cienki and Olga K. Iriskhanova

[Human Cognitive Processing, 62] 2018. xviii, 221 pp.

Subjects Cognition and language | Gesture Studies | Semantics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

Body Memory, Metaphor and Movement

Edited by Sabine C. Koch, Thomas Fuchs, Michela Summa and Cornelia Müller

[Advances in Consciousness Research, 84] 2012. vii, 468 pp.

Subjects Cognition and language | Consciousness research | Gesture Studies

Edited by Alan Cienki and Cornelia Müller

[Gesture Studies, 3] 2008. ix, 306 pp.

Subjects Cognition and language | Gesture Studies

Gestural Communication in Nonhuman and Human Primates

Edited by Katja Liebal, Cornelia Müller and Simone Pika

[Benjamins Current Topics, 10] 2007. xiv, 284 pp.

Subjects Cognition and language | Cognitive psychology | Evolution of language | Gesture Studies | Signed languages

Gestural Communication in Nonhuman and Human Primates

Edited by Katja Liebal, Cornelia Müller and Simone Pika

Special issue of Gesture 5:1/2 (2005) 324 pp.

Subjects Cognitive psychology | Communication Studies | Signed languages

Articles

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Müller, Cornelia 2024 Chapter 9. Gestural mimesis as “as-if” action Perspectives on Pantomime, Żywiczyński, Przemysław, Johan Blomberg and Monika Boruta-Żywiczyńska (eds.), pp. 217–241 | Chapter

It is argued that gestural mimesis involves “as-if” actions that explain the transition from practical and literal actions with the hands to communicative actions of the hands. Concerning the term and the concept “pantomime,” it is suggested that it be primarily reserved for artistic practice… read more

Müller, Cornelia 2022 Obituary: Adam Kendon 1934–2022 Gesture 21:2/3, pp. 157–166 | Obituary

Müller, Cornelia and Benjamin Marienfeld 2022 Feeling for speaking: How expressive body movements ground verbal descriptions of emotions Dynamism in Metaphor and Beyond, Colston, Herbert L., Teenie Matlock and Gerard J. Steen (eds.), pp. 77–94 | Chapter

In this paper, attention is drawn to the embodied experiences that are mobilized when speakers are asked to describe emotions. By analyzing how people use expressive body movements and language when thinking and speaking about emotion concepts, light is thrown on “People’s subjective, felt… read more

Bressem, Jana, Silva H. Ladewig and Cornelia Müller 2018 Ways of expressing action in multimodal narrations – the semiotic complexity of character viewpoint depictions Linguistic Foundations of Narration in Spoken and Sign Languages, Hübl, Annika and Markus Steinbach (eds.), pp. 223–250 | Chapter

Based on an analysis accounting for the whole body as a possible articulator in the depiction of actions, this chapter argues for an expansion of the notion of ‘character viewpoint gestures’ to a notion of ‘multimodal action depiction from a character viewpoint’. Our study shows that speakers may… read more

Müller, Cornelia 2017 How recurrent gestures mean: Conventionalized contexts-of-use and embodied motivation Gesture 16:2, pp. 277–304 | Article

Drawing upon corpus analyses of recurrent gestures, a pragmatics perspective on gestural meaning and conventionalization will be developed. Gesture pragmatics is considered in terms of usage-based, embodied and interactively emerging meaning. The article brings together cognitive linguistic,… read more

Müller, Cornelia 2016 Chapter 3. Why mixed metaphors make sense Mixing Metaphor, Gibbs, Jr., Raymond W. (ed.), pp. 31–56 | Article

This paper explores why speakers and addressees seem to have no problem in making sense of mixed metaphors. We will argue that the mixing of metaphors reveals something about the nature of conventionalized metaphoric meaning that is as interesting for cognitive linguists as speech errors are for… read more

Müller, Cornelia 2014 Gesture as “deliberate expressive movement” From Gesture in Conversation to Visible Action as Utterance: Essays in honor of Adam Kendon, Seyfeddinipur, Mandana and Marianne Gullberg (eds.), pp. 127–152 | Article

This chapter offers an in-depth exploration into one of Adam Kendon‘s core theoretical assumptions: gesture as “deliberate expressive movement.” Gestures are recognized as such because they show certain characteristic features of form, because they have “features of manifest deliberate… read more

Kolter, Astrid, Silva H. Ladewig, Michela Summa, Cornelia Müller, Sabine C. Koch and Thomas Fuchs 2012 Chapter 13. Body memory and the emergence of metaphor in movement and speech: An interdisciplinary case study Body Memory, Metaphor and Movement, Koch, Sabine C., Thomas Fuchs, Michela Summa and Cornelia Müller (eds.), pp. 201–226 | Article

The present study is an empirical documentation of body memory and the transition from implicit to explicit memory from the cognitive-linguistic, movement analytic, and philosophical perspectives in a therapeutic application. The transition from implicit memory to explicit memory is described using… read more

Summa, Michela, Sabine C. Koch, Thomas Fuchs and Cornelia Müller 2012 Chapter 26. Body memory: An integration Body Memory, Metaphor and Movement, Koch, Sabine C., Thomas Fuchs, Michela Summa and Cornelia Müller (eds.), pp. 417–444 | Article

In this final chapter, we summarize the state of the art concerning the research on body memory in phenomenology, in the cognitive sciences, and in embodied therapies. Thereby, we show the impact of the studies collected in this volume for the development of the research in these three fields.… read more

Kappelhoff, Hermann and Cornelia Müller 2011 Embodied meaning construction: Multimodal metaphor and expressive movement in speech, gesture, and feature film Metaphor and the Social World 1:2, pp. 121–153 | Article

In this article, we argue that multimodal metaphors are grounded in the dynamics of felt experiences. Felt experiences are inherently affective, with immediate sensory qualities and an affective stance. We suggest that as such, they ground the emergence and activation of metaphors. We illustrate… read more

Müller, Cornelia 2011 Are ‘deliberate’ metaphors really special? Deliberateness in the light of metaphor activation Metaphor and the Social World 1:1, pp. 61–66 | Article

Cienki, Alan and Cornelia Müller 2008 Introduction Metaphor and Gesture, Cienki, Alan and Cornelia Müller (eds.), pp. 1–4 | Miscellaneous

Müller, Cornelia 2008 What gestures reveal about the nature of metaphor Metaphor and Gesture, Cienki, Alan and Cornelia Müller (eds.), pp. 219–245 | Article

Studying gestures in language use offers the opportunity to uncover fundamental properties of metaphor which so far have received little interest – if at all. This is a shift towards studying metaphor as it is used, and it has important theoretical consequences because it reveals that metaphoricity… read more

Liebal, Katja, Cornelia Müller and Simone Pika 2007 Introduction: Gestural communication in nonhuman and human primates Gestural Communication in Nonhuman and Human Primates, Liebal, Katja, Cornelia Müller and Simone Pika (eds.), pp. 1–4 | Article

Müller, Cornelia 2007 Gestures in human and nonhuman primates: Why we need a comparative view Gestural Communication in Nonhuman and Human Primates, Liebal, Katja, Cornelia Müller and Simone Pika (eds.), pp. 233–256 | Article

The present article offers a condensed overview, of why a comparative view on gestures in human and nonhuman primates may offer important insights to both: researchers of human as well as of nonhuman primates. It is argued that a comparative view may further contribute to the debate over the… read more