togog: Mary Copple

 

 

 

 

contact:

Phone: +49 (0) 335 5534 2732
Fax: +49 (0) 335 5534 2739



Audimax, Logenstrasse 2, Room 123

European University Viadrina
Department of Social and Cultural Sciences
VW-Project “Towards a Grammar of Gesture”
Große Scharrnstraße 59
D-15230 Frankfurt (Oder)

  

 

 

 

Mary Copple:

1971-1973 Training in dance and drama at Dartington College of Arts, England, Diploma 1973. 1994-2002 Masters study at the Freien Universität Berlin in French (linguistics major) and Information Science, Magister Artium 2002. Magistral thesis: The Role of Gesture in Theories of the Origin of Language. Pre-university work experience: dancer, choreographer and dance teacher followed by many years in the computer industry. Post graduation: freelance translator specialized in the humanities, especially in the fields of gesture research, language philosophy and museum studies. May 2006-October 2008 coordinator of the research project Towards a grammar of gesture: evolution, brain, and linguistic structures at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt/Oder. Since October 2008 research assistant in the project Sprache und Gestik der Alexithymie within the framework of the Cluster of Excellence Languages of Emotion at the Free University Berlin.

 

 


Talks:

2006: Lingua ex Machina. Reconciling Darwin and Chomsky with the Human Brain, Berlin Gesture Center.

 

 


Publications:

Copple, Mary (2005): Book review of From Hand to Mouth: The Origins of Language by Michael C. Corballis. In: Gesture 5 (1/2), 285-304

Copple, Mary (2003) Gesture and Speech: André Leroi-Gourhan’s theory of the co-evolution of manual and intellectual activities. In: Gesture 3 (1), 47-94.

Costa, Angelika, Mary Copple, Sebastian Fehrenbach and Bernhard Graf (1998) Besucherreaktionen zum Katalogverkauf in Ausstellungen. Beispielfall: Sonderausstellung „Exil – Flucht und Emigration europäischer Künstler 1933–1945“;. In: Materialien aus dem Institut für Museumskunde (49), Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz.

Costa, Angelika, Mary Copple, Sebastian Fehrenbach and Bernhard Graf (1997) Untersuchung der Akzeptanz des akustischen Führungssystems „Inform“ im Pergamonmuseum. In: Mitteilungen und Berichte aus dem Institut für Museumskunde (12), Staatliche Museen zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz.