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Dr Judith Holler 

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Lecturer

Coupland Building 1
School of Psychological Sciences
University of Manchester
Manchester M13 9PL
UK

 

Role

  • Lecturer in Language & Communication (Assistant Professor)
 

Memberships of Committees and Professional Bodies

International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS)

Research

My research focuses on co-speech gestures, which speakers produce spontaneously and frequently during everyday talk. I am interested in the role these hand movements play in talk, how they are involved in the communication of information, how they interact with speech and what conversational functions they fulfil. I am currently particularly interested in how co-speech gesture use is influenced by social, conversational and interactional processes as well as how these processes influence their comprehension. 

Another strand to my research is the role of gesture in healthcare and clinical settings, including the communication of pain, gesture production and comprehension in Parkinson's patients, as well as the role of co-speech gesture in doctor-patient interaction.

 

Teaching

Undergraduate teaching

PSYC20042 Language & Communication

PSYC30512 Gesture

PSYC20901 2nd year Academic Supervision

PSYC30920 3rd year Research Projects Supervision


Postgraduate teaching

PSYC60012 Advanced General Methods: Working with Verbal and Nonverbal Data

PSYC60500 MRes Research Projects Supervision

PhD student supervision

 

Biography

I obtained my doctoral degree from the University of Manchester in 2004. My thesis focused on the semantic interaction of iconic gesture and speech as well as uses and functions of gestures in talk. I started my position as a full-time lecturer at the University of Manchester in 2004.

I have recently been awarded a Marie Curie Fellowship for a two year project on the perceived communicativeness of co-speech gestures, and their comprehension in the context of spoken language. This project will take place at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in the Netherlands and is a collaboration with Asli Ozyurek (MPI), Spencer Kelly (Colgate Unversity, USA) and Peter Hagoort (MPI).

For more information, please see:

http://www.mpi.nl/people/holler-judith

 

Publications

2011

  • Wilkin, K; Holler, J. (2011). Speakers’ use of ‘action’ and ‘entity’ gestures with definite and indefinite references. Integrating gestures: The interdisciplinary nature of gesture. (pp. 293-308). Amsterdam: John Benjamins. eScholarID:137756
  • Holler, J., Tutton, M., & Wilkin, K. (2011). Co-speech gestures in the process of meaning coordination. Presented at Gesture and Speech in Interaction (Gespin). Bielefeld, Germany. eScholarID:137837
  • Cleary, R. A., Poliakoff, E., Galpin, A., Dick, J. P., & Holler, J. (2011). An investigation of co-speech gesture production during action description in Parkinson’s disease. Parkinsonism & Related Disorders, 17, 753-756. eScholarID:137833 | DOI:10.1016/j.parkreldis.2011.08.001
  • Holler, J. (2011). Verhaltenskoordination, Mimikry und sprachbegleitende Gestik in der Interaktion. Psychotherapie - Wissenschaft: Special issue: "Sieh mal, wer da spricht" - der Koerper in der Psychotherapie Teil IV, 1, 56-64. eScholarID:137832
  • Holler, J., & Wilkin, K. (2011). An experimental investigation of how addressee feedback affects co-speech gestures accompanying speakers’ responses. Journal of Pragmatics, 43, 3522-3536. eScholarID:137830 | DOI:10.1016/j.pragma.2011.08.002
  • Holler, J., & Wilkin, K. (2011). Co-speech gesture mimicry in the process of collaborative referring during face-to-face dialogue. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 35, 133-153. eScholarID:137829 | DOI:10.1007/s10919-011-0105-6
  • Kelly, S., Byrne, K., & Holler, J. (2011). Raising the stakes of communication: Evidence for increased gesture production as predicted by the GSA framework. Information, 2(4), 579-593. eScholarID:137827 | DOI:10.3390/info2040579
  • Rowbotham, S., Holler, J., Lloyd, D., & Wearden, A. (2011). How do we communicate about pain? A systematic analysis of the semantic contribution of co-speech gestures in pain-focused conversations. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, eScholarID:137757 | DOI:10.1007/s10919-011-0122-5

2010

  • Holler, J. (2010). Speakers’ use of interactive gestures as markers of common ground. Presented at 8th International Gesture Workshop, GW 2009. Centre for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld, Germany: Springer. eScholarID:82591 | DOI:10.1007/978-3-642-12553-9_2

2009

  • Holler J, Shovelton HK, Beattie GW. (2009). Do iconic hand gestures really contribute to the communication of semantic information in a face-to-face context? Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 33, 73-88. eScholarID:1d17491 | DOI:10.1007/s10919-008-0063-9
  • Holler J, Wilkin KKJ. (2009). Communicating common ground: how mutually shared knowledge influences speech and gesture in a narrative task. Language & Cognitive Processes, 24, 145-167. eScholarID:1d17489 | DOI:10.1080/01690960802095545
  • Kidd EJ, Holler J. (2009). Children's use of gesture to resolve lexical ambiguity. Developmental Science, 12, 903-913. eScholarID:1d17598 | DOI:10.1111/j.1467-7687.2009.00830.x

2007

  • Holler J, Beattie GW. (2007). Gesture use in social interaction: how speakers' gestures can reflect listeners' thinking. eScholarID:2d2532
  • Holler J, Stevens R. (2007). The effect of common ground on how speakers use gesture and speech to represent size information. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 26, eScholarID:1d13576 | DOI:10.1177/0261927X06296428
  • Stewart AJ, Holler J, Kidd EJ. (2007). Shallow processing of ambiguous pronouns: evidence for delay. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 60, 1680-1696. eScholarID:1d11134 | DOI:10.1080/17470210601160807

2006

  • Holler J. (2006). How speakers represent size information for knowing and unknowing recipients in referential communication. eScholarID:2d2026

2004

2003

  • Holler J, Beattie GW. (2003). How iconic gestures and speech interact in the representation of meaning: are both aspects really integral to the process? Semiotica, 146, 81-116. eScholarID:1d8511 | DOI:10.1515/semi.2003.083
  • Holler J, Beattie GW. (2003). Pragmatic aspects of representational gestures: do speakers use them to clarify verbal ambiguity for the listener? Gesture, 3, eScholarID:1d8512 | DOI:10.1075/gest.3.2.02hol

2002

  • Holler J, Beattie GW. (2002). A micro-analytic investigation of how iconic gesture and speech represent core semantic features in talk. Semiotica, 142, 31-69. eScholarID:1d8510 | DOI:10.1515/semi.2002.077

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