Welcome

About me

I am an interim professor in linguistics are the Department of Romance Philology at the University of Regensburg. For further information please visit my internetsite there. Otherwise, I am a an assistant professor in linguistics at the Department of Romance Philology at the University of Freiburg (Akademischer Rat a.Z.). My research focuses on language in its context of use, mainly in oral communication but also in written media. I am inspired by interactional, cognitive and usage based approaches in linguistics.

My research interests include:

  • Linguistic structure and social interaction
  • Language variation and change
  • Digital humanities, language corpora, corpus technology

My current projects focus on:

  • Requests for action
  • Knowledge transmission in interaction
  • Pragmatic particles
  • Inferences in interaction and language change
  • Remembering in conversation, fragmented syntax and polyphony

NEWS

On november 25, 2021 I have been accepted into the "DFG Heisenberg programme". The funding is awared for 3 (+ 2) years.

The title of my project is: "Requests for action in interaction and language change. Resources for mobilizing linguistic and bodily actions at the interface of grammar and pragmatics."

Events

Past events in 2021

Symposium: "Norm, Abweichung, Autorität: Aushandlungsprozesse in der sozialen Interaktion", Organizers: Oliver Ehmer, Florence Oloff & Karola Pitsch, September 15-17, 2021, U Würzburg. Conference website, Call for papers

Talk: "Challenge me softly: Requests for confirmation as devices for implementing challenging and other disagreement-implicative actions", 17th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA), June 27-July 2, 2021, U Winterthur (Switzerland), with Uwe-A. Küttner & Martin Pfeiffer.

Talk: "Gemeinsam Instruieren. Interpersonale Koordination beim Co-Teaching von Körperwissen", Linguistisches Forschungskolloquium, Organizer: Karin Birkner, May 18, 2021, U Bayreuth.

Talk: "What embodied interaction might reveal about grammar", Language and Communication. The state of the art (Lecture series), Organizers: Uta Reinöl & Stefan Pfänder, May 6, 2021, U Freiburg.

Talk: "Imperative im Sprachwandel", "Aktuelle Themen der romanischen Sprachwissenschaft (Oberseminar)", Organizers: Inga Henneke & Sarah Dessì Schmid, U Tübingen, January 27, 2021.

Talk: "Demonstrationen als instruktionale Praktik. Analysen zur Vermittlung von verkörpertem Wissen", Forschungskolloquium „Sprache – Interaktion – Lernen“, Organizer: Vivien Heller, U Wuppertal, January 20, 2021.

Information about earlier events.