Cornelia Müller is a

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semantics Semantics is the study of linguistic Meaning (philosophy), meaning. It examines what meaning is, how words get their meaning, and how the meaning of a complex expression depends on its parts. Part of this process involves the distinction betwee ...

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gesture A gesture is a form of nonverbal communication or non-vocal communication in which visible bodily actions communicate particular messages, either in place of, or in conjunction with, speech. Gestures include movement of the hands, face, or othe ...

. She is the Chair for Language Use and Multimodal Communication at Europa-Universität Viadrina

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. Müller along with Adam Kendon was a founding editor of Gesture, a peer reviewed journal published since 2001, and is a current member of the editorial board. Müller was also a founding editor of the Gesture Studies monograph series for

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, with Kendon, from 2000–2009. Müller was a program chair for the 4th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS) in 2010.

Selected publications

* Müller, Cornelia, Alan Cienki, Ellen Fricke, Silva H. Ladewig, David McNeill and Sedinha Teßendorf (eds). 2013. ''Body – Language – Communication: An International Handbook on Multimodality'' ''in Human Interaction, Vol. 1. (Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science 38.1.).'' Berlin/ Boston: De Gruyter Mouton. * Müller, Cornelia, Alan Cienki, Ellen Fricke, Silva H. Ladewig, David McNeill and Jana Bressem (eds). 2014. ''Body – Language – Communication: An International Handbook on Multimodality in Human Interaction, Vol. 2. (Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science 38.2.)''. Berlin/ Boston: De Gruyter Mouton. * Müller, Cornelia. 2008. ''Metaphors Dead and Alive, Sleeping and Waking. A Dynamic View.'' Chicago: University of Chicago Press. * Müller, Cornelia and Roland Posner (eds). 2004. The semantics and pragmatics of everyday gestures. Berlin: Weidler.

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Faculty page at Europa-Universität Viadrina: https://www.kuwi.europa-uni.de/en/lehrstuhl/sw/sw0/lehrstuhlinhaberin/index.html History of the ISGS (written by Müller): https://web.archive.org/web/20161011231434/http://www.gesturestudies.com/history.php {{DEFAULTSORT:Müller, Cornelia Linguists from Germany Living people Women linguists Year of birth missing (living people)