Jana Bressem

Biographic Data

ID1221099
NAMEJana Bressem
GIVEN NAMESJana
FAMILY NAMEBressem
SIGNATUREBRESSEM J
AFFILIATIONSChemnitz University of Technology
ORCID0000-0002-4864-7343
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS6
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2011
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX2

  • Multimodal language use in Savosavo

    Open AccessJana Bressem, Nicole Stein et al.ARTICLEPragmatics Quarterly Publication…2022

    Departing from a short overview on pragmatic gestures specialized for the expression of refusal and negation, the article presents first results of a study on those gestures in Savosavo, a Papuan language spoken in the Solomon Islands in the Southwest Pacific. The paper focuses on two partly conventionalized gestures (sweeping and holding away) and shows that speakers of Savosavo use the gestures in a very similar way as speakers of German, Engli…

  • Handling talk

    Open AccessJana Bressem, Claudia WegenerARTICLEGesture2021Cited by: 3References: 9

    This paper discusses how a particular type of recurrent gesture, the holding away gesture, highlights and structures spoken utterances in German and Savosavo, a Papuan language spoken in Solomon Islands in the Southwest Pacific. In particular, the paper poses the following questions: What kinds of discursive functions of this gesture are observable in these speech communities? How do they map onto the two speech communities? Are there cross-lingu…

  • The diversity of recurrency

    Open AccessHarrison, Silva H Ladewig et al.ARTICLEGesture2021Cited by: 1References: 5

  • The “Negative-Assessment-Construction” – A multimodal pattern based on a recurrent gesture

    Open AccessJana Bressem, F Max Muller et al.ARTICLELinguistics Vanguard2017

    This paper offers an analysis of a multimodal pattern of negative assessment, which takes as the starting point a particular recurrent gesture: the Throwing Away gesture. Recurrent gestures are characterized by a stabilized form-meaning pairing. In the case of the Throwing Away gesture, form and meaning are grounded in an “Away-Action-Scheme”: i. e., a socially shared, sedimented experience of removing unwanted objects at, on, or approaching a sp…

  • Handbücher zur Sprach- und Kommunikationswissenschaft / Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science (HSK) 38/2

    Cornelia Müller, Alan Cienki et al.EDITORBOOKBody - Language - Communication.…2014

    1. What are nonhuman primates?2. What is a gesture? 3. What is a psychological approach?4. What is intentional communication? 5. Which cognitive aspects are of interest?6.Conclusion and outlook 7.

  • New insights into the medium hand

    Open AccessSilva H Ladewig, Jana BressemARTICLESemiotica2013

    This paper shows that an analysis of gestures based on the four parameters hand shape, orientation, movement, and position in gesture space, introduced for the notation of sign language (Battison 1974; Stokoe 1960) can uncover recurrent patterns and structures in gestures. By presenting two studies we argue for a discovery procedure that rests upon a systematic description of gestures applying the four parameters and upon a clear discrimination b…

  • Rethinking gesture phases

    Open AccessJana Bressem, Silva H LadewigARTICLESemiotica2011Cited by: 2References: 11

    This paper presents a proposal for the description of gesture phases derived from articulatory characteristics observable in their execution. Based on the results of an explorative study examining the execution of gesture phases of ten German speakers, the paper presents two sets of articulatory features, i.e., distinctive and additional features by which gesture phases are characterized from a context-independent and context-sensitive point of v…