Half the places for our CASS event on 'Collaborations between Linguistics and the Professions' have already been booked. If you're keen and able to join us, don't delay your application: cass.lancs.ac.uk/mycalendar-eve…

Calls: Gesture-Sign Workshop Prague 2019: converging the perspectives on theories, methods, and applications: Call for Papers: Gesture-Sign Workshop Prague 2019 converging the perspectives on theories, methods, and applications 16–17 May 2019 Charles… dlvr.it/QwW74L

Call for papers: GESTURE-SIGN WORKSHOP in Prague from 16-17 May 2019. Keynote speakers: Gerardo Ortega Gerardo Ortega, Cristóbal Pagán Cánovas, Pamela Perniss Pamela Perniss, Jürgen Streeck, Jan P. de Ruiter @JPdeRuiter. submission deadline is 28.2. 2019. #pgsw19 calc.ff.cuni.cz/en/gesture-sig…

'Sensory linguistics: Language, perception, and metaphor' by Bodo Winter is on its way

Is this the best Pipeline shot of all time? Kohl Christensen (deepwatersurf) two nights ago on his last wave of the day, on the best day of the year, on his final ride before… instagram.com/kellyslater/p/…

My upcoming research monograph on language, perception and metaphor is up on the @johnbenjamins website, woohoo! Lots of corpus linguistics in there too. The book is expected to come out in April! benjamins.com/catalog/celcr.… Ling&Comm@UoB CCR #SensoryLinguistics

"Where is mind? Answers from 4E cognition". Introductory lecture with examples of everyday embodied cognition in China: calculating on the hand, weighing fruit, and finding anti-clockwise (Part 1/2) youtube.com/watch?v=F8WYxp…

Removing obstacles from your writing: long words that could be short, inflated expressions that need no inflating, and word clusters. youtube.com/watch?v=IilM6m… #zinsser #WritingCommunity #writingcommmunity #writingtips #essays

More help for students with their essays: use direct verbs, bring out characters and actions, make active voice your default (and use passive wisely) youtube.com/watch?v=bAjLOf… #writingwell #WritingCommunity #writingcommmunity #writingtips

Gestures–past, present, future: An exhibition showcasing the dynamic world of gestures. A collaboration by Ellen Fricke, @BressemJana and colleagues TU Chemnitz, in collaboration with Ars Electronica, IMC Industriemuseum, mfk-berlin.de/ausstellung-ge…

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Examples include calculating with the hand, weighing fruit, finding anti-clockwise (part 1), then calculating with an abacus, navigating with a cane, and intelligently organising space (part 2).

Simon Harrison Simon from Hong Kong opens his gesture talk at the Lido Berlin winning his audience with cynicism on best-selling 'body language' literature.

That we point is interesting enough, but gesture researchers have been puzzling over HOW people point. (short video) youtube.com/watch?v=aiD-m6…

What 'body language' myth would you like to dispel here today? The whole notion of body language! 😆 Trying to work some ideas from gesture studies and multimodal interaction into the mainstream conversation. Thanks CUP Linguistics

Is there such a thing as 'body language'? The latest science on face-to-face communication says there is not. #thebodylanguagemyth youtube.com/watch?v=dko8kB…

Is the popularity of the expression 'body language' a cause for concern? Yes. #thebodylanguagemyth #gesturestudies #gesture #bodylanguage #socialinteraction youtube.com/watch?v=QRwkgj…

Body language is a myth