Prof. Dr Cornelia Müller is a Professor of Language Use and Multimodal Communication, Faculty of Social and Cultural Sciences, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), Germany. She has launched and co-edited the international journal GESTURE and the book series GESTURE Studies (Benjamins) from 2000 to 2010. Her research interests focus on theory and analysis of multimodal communication, in particular the ways in which gestures become meaningful parts of utterances and the role of gesture and words in constructing metaphorical meanings. Her most recent publications include:

Metaphors dead and alive, sleeping and waking. A dynamic view. Chicago 2008.

Eds. with Alan Cienki: Metaphor and gesture. Amsterdam, Philadelphia 2008.

Eds. with Alan Cienki, Ellen Fricke, Silva H. Ladewig, David McNeill and Sedinha Teßendorf (2013) (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.

Eds. with Alan Cienki, Ellen Fricke, Silva H. Ladewig, David McNeill and Jana Bressem (2014) (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.

Prof. Dr Maciej Karpiński is a professor at the Department of Psycholinguistics, Institute of Linguistics at the Faculty of Modern Languages and Literature, AMU in Poznań. His research interests include prosody of spontaneous speech, structure and dynamics of dialogue as well as selected aspects of multimodal communication, especially the link between gesture and prosody. He has led projects focussing on the studies of prosody and gesture in task-oriented dialogues which have resulted in first digitally recorded corpora of spontaneous Polish speech (PoInt) and unique audio-visual dialogue corpora (DiaGest, DiaGest2). Presently, his scientific interests are focused on the paralinguistic and multimodal aspects of mutual adaptation in communication and speech perception in language development.








Dr Ewa Jarmołowicz-Nowikow – an Assisstant Professor at Institute of Linguistics, Faculty of Modern Languages, Adam Mickiewicza University in Poznań. Her research interests focus on multimodal analysis, in particular its non-verbal dimension. She has taken part in several research projects on multimodal discourse analysis, in which she was responsible for annotation and analysis of nonverbal behaviour. Her publications concentrate on nonverbal aspect of communication from the developmental and cultural perspectives, and on the role of gesture.







Dr Konrad Juszczyk researches multimodal communication. He works at the Department of Psycholinguistics at the Institute of Linguistics, Faculty of Modern Languages and Literatures, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. At present he is the Primary Investigator of two externally funded projects on the analysis of the correlation between multimodal communication and cognitive and emotional processes (financed by the National Science Centre and the Foundation for Polish Science). He also participates in two further projects financed by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education and National Programme for the Development of the Humanities. In the present project Dr Juszczyk will advise on annotation, analysis and interpretation of gesture.