I am located at the Centre for Languages and Literature at
Lund University, Sweden. My research concerns children's gestures, currently within the
research project
Centre for Cognitive Semiotics.
This purpose of this page is to provide updated and accurate information about my publications, work
in progress, and other academic activities.
To get in touch, send a mail to mats.andren@ling.lu.se. Other
kinds of contact information is available here.
Andrén, Mats (2010). Children's Gestures from 18 to 30 months. PhD thesis. Lund University: Centre for Languages and Literature.
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in press
Andrén, Mats (in press). The social world within reach: Intersubjective manifestations of action completion. Cognitive Semiotics.
2011
Andrén, Mats (2011). The organization of children’s pointing stroke endpoints. In: Gale Stam & Mika Ishino (Eds.), Integrating Gestures: The interdisciplinary nature of gesture. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
2010
Andrén, Mats, Sanne, Johan & Linell, Per (2010). Striking the balance between formality and informality in safety-critical communication: Train traffic control calls. Journal of Pragmatics, 42(1), 220–241.
2009
Zlatev, Jordan & Andrén, Mats (2009). Stages and transitions in children’s semiotic development. In: Jordan Zlatev, Mats Andrén, Carita Lundmark & Marlene Johansson Falck (Eds.), Studies in Language and Cognition. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, pp. 380–401.
Zlatev, Jordan, Andrén, Mats, Johansson Falck, Marlene & Lundmark, Marlene (2009). Bringing language and cognition back together again. In: Jordan Zlatev, Mats Andrén, Carita Lundmark & Marlene Johansson Falck (Eds.), Studies in Language and Cognition. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, pp. 1–15.
2008
Zlatev, Jordan, Brinck, Ingar & Andrén, Mats (2008). Stages in the Development of Perceptual Intersubjectivity. In: Francesca Morganti, Antonella Carassa & Giuseppe Riva (Eds.), Enacting Intersubjectivity: A cognitive and social perspective to the study of interactions. Amsterdam: IOS Press, pp. 117–132.
2011
Dept. of Linguistics (Eds.) (2011/in prep). Språket, människan och världen.
2009
Zlatev, Jordan, Andrén, Mats, Lundmark, Carita & Johansson Falck, Marlene (Eds.) (2009). Studies in Language and Cognition. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars.
2011
Gesture Studies — from its origins to current studies. What's in it for Psychology? Workshop at the Department of Psychology, University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Invited talk. December 15.
The question of "What is gesture?" as applied to the expressive actions of young children. Workshop at the Department of Psychology, University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Invited talk. December 15.
Analyzing children's gestures: Getting to grips with data. Workshop at the Department of Psychology, University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Invited talk. December 15.
Approaching children's gestures, from a Cognitive Semiotic perspective. Cognitive Semiotics Workshop. Department of Education, Århus University (Copenhagen). September 8.
Children's gestures between 18 and 30 months: Empirical and conceptual issues. Department of Linguistics, Stockholm University. Invited talk. May 12.
Responsive aspects of gesture. Department of Education, Gothenburg University. Invited talk. April 15.
Children's gestures from 18 to 30 months — from a social, cognitive, and semiotic perspective. Department of Logopedics, Phoniatrics, and Audiology, Lund University. Invited talk. March 25.
2010
Doing and speaking. 4th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS), European University Viadrina, Frankfurt an der Oder, Germany. Panel Session "Gesture and object—Development of communication and thought" organized together with Christiane Moro, University of Lausanne. July 26.
Children and the semiosis of bodily action in interaction. Presentation and data session at Lund University, with invited guest prof. Charles Goodwin, UCLA. May 12.
Doing and speaking: Recurrent patterns in children's use of speech when performing acts on objects. Winter Symposium of the Center for Semiotics: Meaning and Interaction: Dynamic models and social interaction, University of Århus. January 29.
2009
Transparency in iconic gestures: What makes it possible? [Transparens hos ikoniska gester: Vad gör det möjligt?] Centre for Cognitive Semiotics seminar, Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University. November 19.
Gesture research: Theory, findings, methodology. [Gestforskning: Teori, empiri, metodologi] Talk held together with Kenneth Holmqvist and Jana Holsanova. Cognition, Communication and Learning seminar, Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University. October 13.
The interaction of congenitally deafblind people. [Dövblindföddas interaktion] Talk held together with Per Linell. Talk in Interaction Seminar [Samtalsseminariet]. Department of Culture and Communication, Linköping University, Sweden. October 1.
Iconicity and object manipulation in the development of children’s acts of bodily communication. Conference: Multimod 2009, University of Toulouse, France. July 11.
Gesture, Language and Cognitive Semiotics. Workshop: Centre for Cognitive Semiotics, Östarp, Sweden. June 5.
The Development of a Gesture Repertoire. Workshop: Topics and methods in gesture studies. École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France. Invited talk. March 20.
Selection, transcription, categorisation, and presentation in the analysis of gesture. Workhop: Topics and methods in gesture studies. Held together with Prof. Aliyah Morgenstern. École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France. Invited talk. March 20.
2008
Iconicity, object manipulation, and schematicity in the development of children’s bodily communication. Third International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association – GCLA’08 – Theme session on Motivation in Gesture, Leipzig, Germany. September 25.
Usage-based models of language acquisition across modalities: Gesture and speech in small children. Conference: Language, Communication and Cognition, University of Brighton, UK. August 6.
Embodied perspectives on gesture. Talk held together with Laura Sparaci and Liesbet Quaeghebeur. Summer School: “Social Cognition and Social Narrative”, University of San Marino, San Marino. Invited talk. July 12.
Nodding and head shakes and their relation to language in small children. [Nickningar och huvudskakningar och deras relation till språk hos små barn] Language acquisition seminar [Språkinlärningsseminariet]. Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University, Sweden. June 3.
The development of children’s acts of bodily communication. Talk held together with Jordan Zlatev. Workshop: The Challenge for Multimodal Corpus Linguistics. University of Southern Denmark, Odense. May 22.
Gesture+speech combinations and their development in small children. Semantics Seminar, Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University, Sweden. May 9.
Pointing, Categories and Counting. Seminar on 'Gestures in Mathematics'. Department of Cognitive Science, Lund University, Sweden. April 30.
Lateral and vertical headshakes in children: relations to verbal utterances. [Nickningar och huvudskakningar hos barn: relationer till talade yttranden] The seventh Swedish Linguistics Conference – SLing 2008, Department of Culture and Communication, Linköping University, Sweden. April 26.
Children's gestures: Endpoints made visible. [Gester hos barn: Synliggjorda avslutningar] Talk in Interaction Seminar [Samtalsseminariet], Department of Culture and Communication, Linköping University, Sweden. March 20.
2007
Research on the relation between language and gesture. [Forskning om relationen mellan språk och gester] General Linguistics Seminar, Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University, Sweden. December 13.
Conventionality in Swedish and Thai children’s deictic gestures. The first conference of The Swedish Association of Language and Cognition (SALC), Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University, Sweden. November 30.
Gesture, Language and Culture. East Asian Linguistics Seminar, Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University, Sweden. October 5.
Explaining gesture timing in ontogenetic development. International Society for Gesture Studies, Third International Conference, “Integrating Gestures”, Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, USA. June 21.
2006
Pointing conventions in children. Conference: Semantics in Focus [Semantik i Fokus], Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University, Sweden. October 12.
Gesture and two word utterance timing in 18 to 28 months old children. Conference: Comparison and Interaction between Semiotic Resources in Evolution and Development, Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University, Sweden. September 29.
Striking a Balance Between Formality and Informality: Train Dispatchers and Train Drivers in Interaction. Presented by Per Linell. International Conference on Conversation Analysis. Helsinki University, Helsinki, Finland. May 12.
Formality and informality in safety talks between train drivers and control room personnel. [Formalitet och informalitet i säkerhetssamtal mellan lokförare och tågklarerare] Held in association with Per Linell (ISK, Linköping University). Talk in Interaction Seminar [Samtalsseminariet], Department of language and Culture & Tema Communication, Linköping University, Sweden. April 30.
2012–2013
Gester som involverar objekt [Gestures involving objects], funded by Erik Philip-Sörensens stiftelse för främjande av genetisk och humanistisk vetenskaplig forskning. PI: Mats Andrén.
2010
Intersubjectivity and Imitation as Precursors of Sign Use (PSUII), funded by the Swedish Research Council. PIs: Jordan Zlatev and Göran Sonesson
2009–2014
Centre for Cognitive Semiotics (CCS), funded by the Swedish Central Bank (Riksbankens Jubileumsfond). PIs: Göran Sonesson, Jordan Zlatev, Chris Sinha
2005–2008
Stages in the Evolution and Development of Sign Use (SEDSU), funded by the EU Sixth Framework Programme. PIs: Peter Gärdenfors, Sven Strömqvist, Jordan Zlatev, Göran Sonesson, Ingar Brinck.
2012
The 5th conference of the International Society of Gesture Studies (ISGS). Member of the Organizing Committee. Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University.
2007
November 29–December 1. The first conference of the Swedish Association for Language and Cognition (SALC). Member of the Organizing Committee. Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University.
2006
September 27–30. Comparison and Interaction between Semiotic Resources in Evolution and Development. Member of the Organizing Committee. Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University.
2012
xxx (Linguistics): Språkets struktur och funktion. Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University.
2011
xxx (Linguistics): Language in the Visual Modality — Gestures and Sign. Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University.
AUDA13/LOGA13 (Audiology and logopedics): Linguistics. Faculty of Medecine, Lund University.
Currently
Webmaster of SALC — Scandinavian Association of Language and Cognition.
Local contact person in Lund for OFTI — Områdesgruppen för forskning om Tal och Interaktion.
Responsible for the technical realization of a database for storage of research data at CCS — Centre for Cognitive Semiotics, Lund University.
