Reber

• Interactional Linguistics / Conversation Analysis
• Phonetics / Prosody
• Multimodality and Embodiment
• Sociolinguistics
• Historical Linguistics / Diachronic Interactional Sociolinguistics
• Usage-based Grammar Theories / Construction Grammar

For more information, please see my profiles at Google Scholar and ResearchGate

Young Scholars Award for Linguistics (Sieger im Nachwuchsgruppenwettbewerb im Bereich Sprachwissenschaft/Linguistics), Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), Germany, 2009. [with Pia Bergmann, Jana Brenning, Martin Pfeiffer, Janaisa Viscardi]

Member of the Research Group "Digitale Edition" (Directors: Joachim Hamm, Frank Puppe, Christian Reul), Zentrum für Philologie und Digitalität, University of Würzburg, Germany

Associate member of the research programme “Interaction and variation in pluricentric languages“ (Directors: Jan Lindström, University of Helsinki, Jenny Nilsson, Institute for Language and Folklore, Gothenburg, Catrin Norrby, University of Stockholm, Camilla Wide, University of Turku), funded by The Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation.

Associate member of the Forschungsstelle “Interaktionale Linguistik“ (Speakers: Dagmar Barth - Weingarten, Margret Selting), University of Potsdam (ILUP).

External Member of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Research on Lexicography, Valency, and Collocation (Speaker: Thomas Herbst), University of Erlangen - Nuremberg.

Associate member of the project “Emotive Involvement in Conversational Storytelling” (directors: Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen, Margret Selting), funded by the Cluster of Excellence “Languages of Emotion”, Free University Berlin, 2008-2010.

Full member of the project “Interactional Linguistics in crosslinguistic perspective: Swedish-German-English” (director: Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen), funded by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)/The Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education (STINT), 2004-2006.

Grants

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Research fellowship awarded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) to conduct the project "Quoting as an evidential practice in Prime Minister’s Question Time" as a visiting scholar at the Department of Sociology, University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB), faculty sponsor: Geoffrey Raymond, 1 March - 15 July 2016.

Co-convener of the Scientific Network “Multimodality and embodied interaction” (directors: Cornelia Gerhardt and Elisabeth Reber), funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) 2012-2016. 

Postdoctoral project “Verb complementation in written and conversational English – valency patterns in English,” funded by the Faculty of Arts, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, 2010-2011.

Post-/doctoral projects

Postdoctoral thesis (Habilitationsschrift, completed): “Quoting in Parliamentary Question Time. A short-term diachronic study of an evidential practice.“

University of Potsdam, Germany, 2018. Referees: Dagmar Barth-Weingarten, Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen, Andreas H. Jucker

Published as
Reber, Elisabeth. 2021. Quoting in Parliamentary Question Time. Exploring recent change (Studies in English Language), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

“Why does it sound so foreign to us when we hear audio recordings of speakers engaging in reported speech at British Prime Minister’s Questions (PMQs) 30-40 years ago? Taking a real-time approach, this study analyses how reported speech with the quotative 'say' is emergent in a rapidly evolving community of practice, comparing its uses based on authentic audio and video recordings from two periods (1978-1988 and 2003-2013). Using a combined methodology informed by Interactional Linguistics, Conversation Analysis, Variationist Sociolinguistics, Usage-based Grammar as well as Historical Pragmatics, the study makes a proposal for a diachronic interactional-linguistic research programme. It provides evidence for qualitative and quantitative changes, ranging from the micro level (most notably, grammaticalization processes in the reporting clause) to more global levels (reported clauses, rhetorical structures and activities. Representing one of the first large-scale studies of change in an interactional genre of contemporary English, its findings contribute to a theoretical modelling of evidentiality in English, our understanding of constructions, interaction, and change, and of PMQs as an evolving community of practice.“

Doctoral thesis (completed): “Affectivity in Talk-in-interaction: sound objects in English“

University of Potsdam, Germany, 2008. With highest honors (Summa cum laude). Referees: Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen, Marja-Leena Sorjonen

Published as
Reber, Elisabeth. 2012    Affectivity in Interaction: Sound objects in English (Pragmatics and beyond new series 215), Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

“How do participants display affectivity in social interaction? Based on recordings of authentic everyday conversations and radio phone-ins, this study offers a fine-grained analysis of how recipients of affect-laden informings deploy sound objects, i.e. interjections (oh, ooh and ah) and paralinguistic signals (whistle and clicks), for responsive displays of affectivity. Examining the use of such sound objects across a number of interactional activities including news telling, troubles talk, complaining, assessments and repair, the study provides evidence that the sound pattern and sequential placement of sound objects systematically contribute to their specific meaning-making in interaction, i.e. the management of sequence organisation and interactional relevancies (e.g. affiliation). Presenting an in-depth analysis of a little researched area of language use from an interactional linguistic perspective, the book will be of theoretical and methodological interest to an audience with a background in linguistics, sociology and conversational studies.“

Reviews by

Sarah Raine in Language in Society 43:1, 129-130. [2014, doi:10.1017/S0047404513000973]
Xue Yaoqin in Discourse Studies 16:1, 120-122. [February 2014, doi: 10.1177/1461445613510812g]
Israel Berger in Journal of Pragmatics 57, 173-175. [October 2013, doi 10.1016/j.pragma.2013.08.011]
Terese Thonus in LinguistList. [http://linguistlist.org/issues/23/23-4750.html]

At the English Seminar, University of Heidelberg

Grammaticalization (winter semester 2020/21)
Morphology (winter semester 2020/21)
English Studies in Interactional Linguistics (winter semester 2020/21)
Exam Colloquium (winter semester 2020/21)

At the Institute of Modern Languages, University of Würzburg

Introduction to English Linguistics (summer semester 2020) [with Carolin Biewer]
Spoken Language – Theoretical and Empirical Aspects (summer semester 2020)
Grammaticalization (winter semester 2019/20)
Cross-Linguistic Perspectives on Grammar (summer semester 2019)
News in Text and Discourse (summer semester 2019)
Interactional Linguistics (winter semester 2018/19)
News in Conversation (winter semester 2015/16)
English Syntax (winter semester 2019/20, summer semester 2014, winter semester 2013/14, summer semester 2013, winter semester 2012/13, summer semester 2012)
Modal auxiliaries in English (summer semester 2014)
Pragmatics (winter semester 2013/14)
Modality in English: Synchronic and diachronic aspects (winter semester 2013/14)
Conjunctions and Conjunctions (summer semester 2013)
English Morphology and Word-formation (winter semester 2012/13, winter semester 2011/12)
Evidentiality in English (winter semester 2012/13)
Conversation Analysis (summer semester 2012, summer semester 2011)
English Pragmatics (winter semester 2011/12)
Modality in English (winter semester 2011/12)
Word-formation in English (summer semester 2011)

At the Institute of English and American Studies, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg

Aufbaukurs English Linguistics (summer semester 2010)
Usage based Grammar Theories (summer semester 2010)
Introduction to English Linguistics (winter semester 2009/2010)
News in Conversation (winter semester 2009/2010)
Syntax in Spoken English (winter semester 2009/2010)
Contrastive Grammar: English-German (winter semester 2009/2010)
Textlinguistik (winter semester 2009/2010)

At the Institute of German Studies, University of Potsdam

Deutsche Sprache der Gegenwart: Text, Gespräch, Varietäten, Teil 1 (summer semester 2009)
Grammatik in der Interaktion (summer semester 2009)
Deutsch-Englisch kontrastiv (summer semester 2009)
Kolloquium zur linguistischen Kommunikationsforschung (summer semester 2009) [with Friederike Kern, Bernhard Bielick]
Projektseminar „Kommunikationslinguistik“ (summer semester 2009)
Erzählen in Gesprächen (winter semester 2008/09) 

At the Institute of English and American Studies, University of Potsdam

News Delivery Sequences (winter semester 2008/09)
Syntax (summer semester 2008)
Introduction to Linguistics, Part II (summer semester 2007)
Lexicology (winter semester 2006/07)
Introduction to Linguistics, Part I (winter semester 2006/07, summer semester 2006)
Affect in Conversation (summer semester 2005) 

Monographs

Reber, Elisabeth. 2021. Quoting in Parliamentary Question Time. Exploring recent change (Studies in English Language). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Reber, Elisabeth. 2012. Affectivity in Interaction: Sound objects in English (Pragmatics and Beyond New Series 215), Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Reviews by

Sarah Raine in Language in Society 43:1, 129-130. [2014, doi:10.1017/S0047404513000973]
Xue Yaoqin in Discourse Studies 16:1, 120-122. [February 2014, doi: 10.1177/1461445613510812g]
Israel Berger in Journal of Pragmatics 57, 173-175. [October 2013, doi 10.1016/j.pragma.2013.08.011]
Terese Thonus in LinguistList. [http://linguistlist.org/issues/23/23-4750.html]

Edited Volumes 

Reber, Elisabeth and Cornelia Gerhardt, eds. 2019. Embodied Activities in Face-to-face and Mediated Settings: Social encounters in time and space. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Review by

Tiina Eilittä in Journal of Pragmatics [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2019.12.004]

Bergmann, Pia, Jana Brenning, Martin Pfeiffer, and Elisabeth Reber, eds. 2012. Prosody and Embodiment in Interactional Grammar (Linguae et Litterae), Berlin: de Gruyter.

Barth-Weingarten, Dagmar, Margret Selting, and Elisabeth Reber, eds. 2010. Prosody in Interaction (Studies in Discourse and Grammar 23), Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins

Reviews by

Sasha Calhoun in Discourse Studies 14:5, 659-661 [October 2012, doi:10.1177/1461445612450378].
Rebecca Damari in LinguistList. [http://linguistlist.org/issues/23/23-1717.html]
Stefan Baumann in Journal of the International Phonetic Association 42:1, 107-109 [published online March 12, 2012, doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0025100311000557].
Judith Rosenhouse in The Phonetician, vol 105-106, 118-120 [2012 I&II].

Journal Articles

Reber, Elisabeth and Hans Sauer. 2022. 'Allas and weilawei’: Structure and use of the interjections in some of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales (Fragment III: Wife of Bath, the Friar, the Summoner). Academic Journal of Modern Philology 15, 279–304.

Reber, Elisabeth. 2021. On the variation of fragmental constructions in British English and American English post-match interviews. Special Issue ‘New perspectives on linguistic pluricentricity’ (Camilla Wide, Catrin Norrby, and Leigh Oakes, eds.). Sociolinguistica 35: 217-241.

Reber, Elisabeth. 2020. Visuo-material performances: ‘Literalized’ reported speech in parliamentary question time. Special Issue ‘Linguistic Recycling: The process of quoting in increasingly mediatized settings’ (Lauri Haapanen and Daniel Perrin, eds.). AILA Review 33, 176-203.

Reber, Elisabeth and Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen. 2020. On ‘whistle’ sound objects in English everyday conversation. Special Issue ‘Sounds on the Margins of Language’ (Leelo Keevallik and Richard Ogden, eds.). Research on Language and Social Interaction 53:1, 164-187.

Reber, Elisabeth 2014. Constructing evidence at Prime Minister's Question Time: An analysis of the grammar, semantics and pragmatics of the verb see. Special Issue ‘Evidentiality in Discourse’ (Anita Fetzer and Etsuko Oishi, eds.). Intercultural Pragmatics 11:3, 357-387.

Reber, Elisabeth. 2014. Obama said it. Quoting as evidential strategy in online discussion forums. Special Issue ‚Certainty and Uncertainty in Dialogue’ (Andrzej Zuczkowsky, ed.). Language and Dialogue 4:1, 76-92.

Reber, Elisabeth. 2011. Interjections in the EFL classroom: teaching sounds and sequences. ELT Journal 65:4, 365-375.

Book Chapters

Reber, Elisabeth. In press. ‘Though I infinitly wish thy companye’. Concessive formulae in Early English correspondence. In: Ulrike Krischke, Renate Bauer, Christine Elsweiler, and Kerstin Majewski (eds.), Travelling Texts – Texts Travelling.

Reber, Elisabeth. 2021. Calibrating syntax, prosody and gaze in parliamentary questions. In: Maxi Kupetz and Friederike Kern (eds.), Prosodie in der multimodalen Welt, 239-266. Universitätsverlag Winter: Heidelberg.

Reber, Elisabeth. 2020. Interjektionen – Naturlaute oder lautsprachliche Zeichen? In: Michael Elmentaler and Oliver Niebuhr (eds.), An den Rändern der Sprache (Kieler Forschungen zur Sprachwissenschaft), 39-65. Berlin u.a.: Peter Lang.

Reber, Elisabeth. 2020. Britische und amerikanische Spitznamen im Vergleich. In: Hans Sauer and Rüdiger Pfeiffer-Rupp (eds.), Ihr werdet die Wahrheit erkennen. Ye shall know the truth, 229-243. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag.

Reber, Elisabeth. 2020. Zur Rolle von Phonetik und Prosodie in CAN I X-, LEˀ ME X-, und LEMME X-Konstruktionen. In: Wolfgang Imo and Philipp Lanwer (eds.), Prosodie und Konstruktionsgrammatik, 135-165. Berlin / New York: deGruyter.

Reber, Elisabeth. 2019. Punch and Judy politics? Embodying challenging courses of actions in parliament. In: Elisabeth Reber and Cornelia Gerhardt (eds.), Embodied Activities in Face-to-face and Mediated Settings: Social encounters in time and space, 255-297. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Gerhardt, Cornelia and Elisabeth Reber. 2019. Embodied Activities. In: Elisabeth Reber and Cornelia Gerhardt (eds.), Embodied Activities in Face-to-face and Mediated Settings: Social encounters in time and space, 3-27. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Gerhardt, Cornelia and Elisabeth Reber. 2019. Epilogue. In: Elisabeth Reber and Cornelia Gerhardt (eds.), Embodied Activities in Face-to-face and Mediated Settings: Social encounters in time and space, 437-452. London: Palgrave Macmillan.

Fetzer, Anita and Elisabeth Reber. 2015. Quoting in political discourse: Professional talk meets ordinary postings. In: Jenny Arendholz, Monika Kirner, and Wolfram Bublitz (eds.), Quoting Now and Then, 97-124. Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter Mouton.

Bergmann, Pia, Jana Brenning, Martin Pfeiffer and Elisabeth Reber. 2012. Towards an Interactional Grammar. In: Pia Bergmann, Jana Brenning, Martin Pfeiffer, and Elisabeth Reber (eds.), Prosody and Embodiment in Interactional Grammar, 1-16. Berlin: de Gruyter.

Reber, Elisabeth. 2010. Double function of prosody: Processes of meaning-making in narrative reconstructions of epileptic seizures. In: Dagmar Barth-Weingarten, Elisabeth Reber, and Margret Selting (eds.), Prosody in Interaction, 295-301. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Barth-Weingarten, Dagmar, Margret Selting, and Elisabeth Reber. 2010. Preface. In: Dagmar Barth-Weingarten, Elisabeth Reber, and Margret Selting (eds.), Prosody in Interaction, xi-xvii. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

Reber, Elisabeth and Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen. 2010. Interjektionen zwischen Lexikon und Vokalität: Lexem oder Lautobjekt? In: Arnulf Deppermann and Angelika Linke (eds.), Sprache intermedial: Stimme und Schrift, Bild und Ton, 69-96. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter.

Reber, Elisabeth. 2009. Zur Affektivität in englischen Alltagsgesprächen. In: Mareike Buss, Stephan Habscheid, Sabine Jautz, Frank Liedtke, and Jan Georg Schneider (eds.), Theatralität des sprachlichen Handelns. Eine Metaphorik zwischen Linguistik und Kulturwissenschaften, 193-215. München: Fink-Verlag.

Conference Proceedings 

Fetzer, Anita, Elda Weizman, and Elisabeth Reber, eds. 2012. Proceedings of the ESF Strategic Workshop on Follow-ups across Discourse Domains: A cross-cultural exploration of their forms and functions, Würzburg (Germany), 31 May - 2 June 2012. Würzburg: Universität Würzburg. [http://opus.bibliothek.uni-wuerzburg.de/volltexte/2012/7165/. URN: urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-71656]

Contribution to Proceedings

Reber, Elisabeth. 2012. Evidential positioning in follow-ups in news interviews. In: Anita Fetzer, Elda Weizma, and Elisabeth Reber (eds.), Proceedings of the EFS Strategic Workshop on Follow-ups across Discourse Domains: A cross-cultural exploration of their forms and functions, Würzburg (Germany), 31 May – 2 June 2012, 205-220. Würzburg: Universität Würzburg. [http://opus.bibliothek.uni-wuerzburg.de/volltexte/2012/7165/. URN: urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-71656]

Fetzer, Anita, Elda Weizman, and Elisabeth Reber. 2012. Introduction. In: Anita Fetzer, Elda Weizman, and Elisabeth Reber (eds.), Proceedings of the EFS Strategic Workshop on Follow-ups across Discourse Domains: A cross-cultural exploration of their forms and functions, Würzburg (Germany), 31 May – 2 June 2012, 3-4. Würzburg: Universität Würzburg. http://opus.bibliothek.uni-wuerzburg.de/volltexte/2012/7165/. URN: urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-71656

Encyclopedic contributions and Handbook articles

Reber, Elisabeth. Under review. Sound object. In: Alexandra Gubina, Elliott Hoey, and Chase Wesley Raymond, eds. Encyclopedia of Terminology for Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics. International Society for Conversation Analysis (ISCA).

Reber, Elisabeth. Under review. Vocalization. In: Alexandra Gubina, Elliott Hoey, and Chase Wesley Raymond, eds. Encyclopedia of Terminology for Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics. International Society for Conversation Analysis (ISCA).

Reber, Elisabeth. 2018. Interjektionen. In: Frank Liedtke and Astrid Tuchen (eds.), Handbuch Pragmatik, 229-239. Stuttgart: Metzler.

Reviews

Reber, Elisabeth. 2022. Review of Hans Schottmann. 2020. Schwedische Interjektionen und Partikeln. Dortmund: readbox unipress. European Journal of Scandinavian Studies 52, 334–336.

Reber, Elisabeth. In press. English Language. Section 13 ‘Discourse and pragmatics’. The Year’s Work in English Studies.

Reber, Elisabeth. 2021. English Language. Section 13 ‘Discourse and pragmatics’. The Year’s Work in English Studies.

Reber, Elisabeth. 2021. Review of Michel-André Horelt, Dramas of Reconciliation, Baden-Baden: Nomos. Contrastive Pragmatics, 1-3.

Reber, Elisabeth. 2012. Review of Gerd Antos & Eija Ventola (eds), Handbook of Interpersonal Communication, Berlin: Mouton deGruyter. LinguistList 23.1505.

Conference reports

Barth-Weingarten, Dagmar and Elisabeth Reebr. 2009. ‘Conference on Prosody and Interaction’ am 15.-17. September 2008 in Potsdam. Gesprächsforschung. Online Zeitschrift zur verbalen Interaktion. http://www.gespraechsforschung-ozs.de/heft2009/tb-barth.pdf .

Translations

Reber, Elisabeth and Dagmar Barth-Weingarten: Couper-Kuhlen, Elizabeth and Sandra A. Thompson. 2006. „You know, it's funny: Eine Neubetrachtung der ‚Extraposition’ im Englischen.” In: Susanne Günthner and Wolfgang Imo (eds.), Konstruktionen in der Interaktion, 23-58. Berlin: de Gruyter.

Miscellanea

Reber, Elisabeth. 2013. Reber, Elisabeth. 2012. Affectivity in Interaction: Sound objects in English. In: Paul Georg Meyer and Stella Neumann (eds.), English and American Studies in German 2:1, 19-22.

Press reviews and interviews

Thomas Gross, „Bedeutende Laute. Na, ja und so. Linguisten diskutieren über Interjektionen,“ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung No. 65, 18/03/2009, p. N3.

Cathrin Leopold, „Die Kleine Anfrage: Warum sagen wir lautmalerisch "Ahh" nach dem Trinken oder "Puuh" wenn's stinkt?,“ Leonardo – Wissenschaft und mehr, WDR 5, Broadcast on 11/05/2009.

Invited Presentations

“Concessions in Early English Correspondence.“ Presentation at Travel(l)ing Texts – Texts Travel(l)ing. Symposium on the Occasion of Hans Sauer’s 75th Birthday, University of Munich, 12-13 November 2021.

“Dimensions of orality in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. The case of interjections.” Guest lecture, University of Heidelberg, 12 February 2021.

“Zu Grammatikalisierungsprozessen in der Redewiedergabe im britischen Unterhaus.“ Presentation at the EZS-Kolloquium, University of Heidelberg, 11 February 2021

“Diachrones Korpus gesprochenes Englisch: Möglichkeiten und Grenzen.“ Presentation in the research group “Digitale Edition“, Zentrum für Philologie und Digitalität, University of Würzburg, 21 November 2019.

“Sound objects: Methodological and theoretical perspectives.” Presentation at the Higher Seminar, Department of Culture and Communication, University of Linköping/Sweden, 2-4 October 2019.

“On evolving embodied performances in mediated interaction.“ Presentation at the workshop “Identifying Intersections between Prosody, Gesture, and Conversation“, University of Kiel, 29-30 November 2018.

“Interjektionen – Naturlaute oder lautsprachliche Zeichen?“ Presentation. University of Kiel, 28 November 2018.

“Exploring real-time change in Spoken English.” Presentation at the workshop “OPEN MINDS II: Comparative Interactional Linguistics“, University of Potsdam, 28 September 2018.

“Short-term diachronic change in Present-Day English. The case of he said.” Presentation. University of Graz/Austria, 12 January 2018.

“An interactional perspective on English as a pluricentric language: High-grade assessments in post-match interviews.” Presentation at the Workshop “Assessments” hosted by the research programme “Interaction and variation in pluricentric languages,” University of Stockholm/Sweden. 6 October 2017.

“Organizing adversarial talk in political interaction.” Presentation at the Department of Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham/UK. 14 March 2017.

“Evidential practices in Prime Minister’s Questions.” Presentation at the Department of Linguistics and English, University of Lancaster/UK. 13 March 2017.

“'Can I X' and 'Let me X' in political interaction.” Presentation. Panel “Metapragmatic units in talk-in-interaction.“ 7th International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association. University of Duisburg-Essen/Germany, 5-7 October 2016.

“Quoting and action formation in Prime Minister's Questions.” Presentation. Language, Interaction and Social Organization (LISO) Research Group, University of California, Santa Barbara/USA, 13 May 2016.

“Reported speech with the verbum dicendi 'say' in Prime Minister's Questions.” Presentation. Linguistics Research Center, The University of Texas, Austin/USA, 2 May 2016.

“Gaze in Prime Minister’s Questions.” Presentation. Department of Communication Studies, The University of Texas at Austin/USA, 28 April 2016.

“Gaze in Prime Minister’s Questions.” Presentation. Sociology Colloquium, University of California, Santa Barbara/USA, 13 April 2016.

“Knowledge management in follow-ups in Prime Minister's Question Time.” Presentation. Panel “Follow-ups in mediated political discourse,” 13th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA), New Delhi/India, 8-13 September 2013.

“Evidential positioning in follow-ups in news interviews.” Presentation. ESF Strategic Workshop on Follow-ups across Discourse Domains: A cross-cultural exploration of their forms and functions, University of Würzburg/Germany, 31 May-2 June 2012.

“Interjektionen zwischen Lexikon und Vokalität: Lexem oder Lautgestalt?” Presentation. Jahrestagung des Instituts für Deutsche Sprache, Institut für Deutsche Sprache Mannheim/Germany, 10-12 March 2009. [with Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen] 

“‘Surprised’ oh as a recipient resource in English talk-in-interaction: Formal and interactional-functional aspects.” Presentation. Colloquium for “Discourse and Communication” (CLCG), University of Groningen/The Netherlands, 2 February 2009.

“Formal and interactional-functional aspects of oh as a resource for displays of ‘surprise’ in English talk-in-interaction.” Presentation. Workshop on Stance and Affect: Forms of Expression, Sequential Position, and Social-Interactional Function, University of Oulu/Finland, 6 November 2008.

“Managing affectivity in talk-in-interaction: The case of sound objects in informing.” Presentation. Workshop on “The expression of stance in talk-in-interaction,” 40th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, University of Joensuu/Finland, 29 August-1 September 2007.

“Datensitzung: Konstruktion von Emotionen in Gesprächen zu Geburt.” Colloquium „Analysen gesprochener Sprache” (Director: Prof. Dr. Susanne Günthner), University of Münster/Germany, 13-14 May 2004.

Conference Presentations

“Epistemic and evidential expressions in English over time: Some insights on the role of interactional processes and social change.” Presentation at the International Conference on English Historical Linguistics – 21 (ICEHL-21), University of Leiden/The Netherlands, 7-11 June 2021. [with Svenja Kranich] 

“Bedeutung in der Interaktion im Wandel.“ Presentation at the 22. Arbeitstagung zur Gesprächsforschung, Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache, Mannheim, spring 2021. 

“On Prosody, Phonetics and Construction Grammar: The case of CAN I X, LEˀ ME X, and LEMME X.“ Presentation. 8th Biennial Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English (BICLCE), Bamberg/Germany, 26-28 September 2019.

“On a short-term diachronic perspective on Spoken English.“ Presentation. International Institute for Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis (IIEMCA), Mannheim/Germany, 2-5 July 2019.

“On grammaticalization and short-term diachronic change in Spoken English.” Fifth International Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE 5 Conference), University College London/UK, 17-20 July 2018.

“On the sound object ‘whistle’ in English everyday conversation.” 5th International Conference of Conversation Analysis (ICCA 2018), Loughborough University/UK, 11-15 July 2018. [with Elizabeth-Couper-Kuhlen]

“Reported speech – a practice in change?” 7th Biennial Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English (BICLCE), Vigo/Spain, 28-30 September 2017.

“Punch and Judy politics? Embodying challenging actions in parliament.” Presentation at the Panel “Activities in Interaction”, 15th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA), Belfast/ Northern Ireland, 16-21 July 2017.

“Embodying evidential positioning in news interviews.” Data session. Third meeting of the scientific network (DFG) “Multimodality and Embodied Interaction”, University of Potsdam/Germany, 30 September - 2 October 2013.

“Obama said it. Quotations as evidentials in online comments.” Presentation. International conference on “The communication of certainty and uncertainty. Linguistic, Psychological and Philosophical aspects,“ University of Macerata/Italy, 3-5 October 2012.

“Quoting in computer-mediated political discourse: Forms and functions.” Presentation. Quoting Now and Then – 3rd International Conference on Quotation and Meaning (ICQM3), University of Augsburg/Germany, 19-21 April, 2012. [with Anita Fetzer]

“Lernziel kommunikative Kompetenz: Authentische Audio- und Videoaufnahmen im Englischunterricht.” Presentation. Tagung für bayerische Englischlehrer, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg/Germany, 12-13 March 2010.

“Modelling sound objects within a practice-oriented grammar theory.” Presentation. International Conference „Interaction and usage-based grammar theories. What about prosody and visual signals?” Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS)/Germany, 3-5 December 2009.

“Spoken language signs: the case of the sound object ooh.” Presentation. First Triennial Conference of the International Society for the Linguistics of English (ISLE 1), University of Freiburg/Germany, 8-11 October 2008.

“Discussion of ‘Communicating emotions in doctor-patient interaction: an attempt at multi-modal description’ by Elisabeth Gülich.” Co-presentation. Conference on “Prosody and Interaction,” Unversity of Potsdam/Germany, 15-17 September 2008.

“Sound objects at the Phonetics-Lexis interface: A resource for signaling affectivity in talk-in-interaction.” Presentation. 10th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA), Göteborg/Sweden, 8-13 July 2007.

“Ooh! Ow! Ugh! Zur Affektivität in englischen Alltagsgesprächen.” Presentation. Arbeitstreffen Linguistische Pragmatik 2007, University of Siegen/Germany, 27 February 2007.

“Sound objects containing the vowel [u:]: Formal properties and interactional practices.” Data session. 6th Project workshop on “Interactional Linguistics in cross-linguistic perspective: Swedish-German-English,” University of Linköping/Sweden, 11-12 October 2006.

“Why that now? Überlegungen zur Schulung gesprächsanalytischer Fähigkeiten in der universitären Ausbildung.” Presentation. 37. Jahrestagung der GAL, University of Münster/Germany, 21-23 September 2006. [with Bernhard Bielick]

“Affectivity at the Phonetics-Lexis Interface.” Presentation. 5th Project workshop on Interactional Linguistics in cross-linguistic perspective: Swedish-German-English, University of Potsdam/Germany, 7-9 June 2006.

“Evaluations in problem talk.” Presentation. Conference on evaluation and text types, University of Augsburg/Germany, 22-23 July 2005.

“Problem talk - what is it?” Presentation. 3rd Project workshop on Interactional Linguistics in cross-linguistic perspective: Swedish-German-English, University of Potsdam/Germany, 11-13 May 2005.

“Konstruktion von Emotionen und Bewertungen in schwedischen Hebammen-Mütter-Interaktionen.” Presentation. 1. überregionale skandinavistische Doktorandentagung, Nordeuropa-Institut, Humboldt-University Berlin/Germany, 19-20 June 2004.

 “Assessments in Swedish mother-midwife-interactions.” Presentation. 1st Project workshop on Interactional Linguistics in cross-linguistic perspective: Swedish-German- English,” University of Potsdam/Germany, 6-7 May 2004.

“Rekonstruktionen von Emotionen in Gesprächen zu Geburt.” Data Session. 10. Arbeitstagung zur Gesprächsforschung, Mannheim/Germany, 1-2 April 2004.

“Steife Engländer - kühle Schweden? Zur Verbalisierung von Emotionen im Englischen und Schwedischen.” Project presentation. 16. Arbeitstagung der deutschsprachigen Skandinavistik, Basel/Switzerland, 5-9 October 2003.

Conferences organized

“Interaction and usage-based grammar theories. What about prosody and visual signals?,” Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), 3-5 December 2009. [with Pia Bergmann, Jana Brenning, Martin Pfeiffer and Janaisa Viscardi]

“Prosody and interaction,” University of Potsdam, 15-17 September 2008. [with Dagmar Barth-Weingarten und Margret Selting]

Workshops organized

Workshop ”Epistemic and evidential stance in English past and present: Interaction and (social) change“ at the "International Conference on English Historical Linguistics - 21" (ICEHL-21), University of Leiden/The Netherlands, 7-11 June 2021. [together with Svenja Kranich] 

Workshop “Interactional Perspectives on Pluricentric Languages” at the International Conference “Languages, Nations, Cultures: Pluricentric Languages in Context(s)”, University of Stockholm, 22-24 Mai 2019 [with Jenny Nilsson]

Open Minds Workshop “Comparative Interactional Linguistics”, University of Potsdam, 28 September 2018

Workshops of the Scientific Network “Multimodality and Embodied Interaction,” 2012-2014. [with Cornelia Gerhardt]

• “Methodology and multimodal interaction,” University of Bielefeld, 25-27 September 2014. Invited guests: Jörg Bergmann (University of Bielefeld/Germany), Geoffrey Raymond (University of California at Santa Barbara/USA)
• “Sequential organisation of multimodal interaction,” University of Potsdam, 29 September - 2 October 2013. Invited guests: Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen (University of Helsinki/Finland), Margret Selting (University of Potsdam/Germany)
• “Coordination and multimodal interaction,” Schönstattzentrum Würzburg, 23-25 May 2013. Invited guest: Jürgen Streeck (The University of Texas at Austin/USA)
• “Data collection, transcription and technologies,” Saarland University, Saarbrücken, 7-10 November 2012. Invited guests: Ruth Ayaß (University of Klagenfurt/Austria), Harrie Mazeland (University Groningen/The Netherlands)

“Methodology and multimodal interaction,” University of Bielefeld, 25-27 September 2014. Invited guests: Jörg Bergmann (University of Bielefeld/Germany), Geoffrey Raymond (University of California at Santa Barbara/USA)

“Sequential organisation of multimodal interaction,” University of Potsdam, 29 September - 2 October 2013. Invited guests: Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen (University of Helsinki/Finland), Margret Selting (University of Potsdam/Germany)

“Coordination and multimodal interaction,” Schönstattzentrum Würzburg, 23-25 May 2013. Invited guest: Jürgen Streeck (The University of Texas at Austin/USA)

“Data collection, transcription and technologies,” Saarland University, Saarbrücken, 7-10 November 2012. Invited guests: Ruth Ayaß (University of Klagenfurt/Austria), Harrie Mazeland (University Groningen/The Netherlands)

“Follow-ups across discourse domains: A cross-cultural exploration of their forms and functions,” European Science Foundation Strategic Workshop, University of Würzburg, 31 May - 2 June 2012. [Local organizer; Conveners: Anita Fetzer and Elda Weizman]

“Factuality and affectivity in talk-in-interaction – prosodic resources and interactional functions,” University of Potsdam, 17-18 November 2005. [with Friederike Kern]

Panels Organized

“Diachronic pragmatics: New perspectives on spoken English from the twentieth century to today,” 17th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA), Winterthur, Switzerland, 27 June - 2 July 2021. [with Andreas H. Jucker]

“Activities in Interaction,” 15th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA), Belfast, Northern Ireland, 16-21 July 2017. [with Cornelia Gerhardt]

“Vocal and visual practices of minimal response,” International Conference on Conversation Analysis (ICCA 10), Mannheim, Germany, 4-8 July 2010. [with Dagmar Barth-Weingarten]

Education

Habilitation, University of Potsdam, Germany, 2019. Venia legendi: Englische Philologie/Sprachwissenschaft. Thesis: Quoting in Parliamentary Question Time. A short-term diachronic study of an evidential practice. Referees: Dagmar Barth-Weingarten, Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen, Andreas H. Jucker

Dr. phil., English Linguistics, University of Potsdam, Germany, 2008. With highest honors (Summa cum laude). Thesis: Affectivity in Talk-in-interaction: sound objects in English. Referees: Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen, Marja-Leena Sorjonen

M.A. (Magister Artium), English Linguistics, Scandinavian Languages and Cross-cultural Communication, University of Munich, Germany, 2002. Thesis: Phatic Communion in English and German. Referees: Leonhard Lipka, Richard Janney

Positions held

Replacement professorship (Vertretungsprofessur) for English Linguistics, English Seminar, University of Heidelberg, Germany, 2020 - 2021.

Guest lecturer, Department of Culture and Society, University of Linköping, Sweden, October 2019.

Visiting scholar, Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, March – July 2016.

Researcher and Lecturer (Akademische Rätin auf Zeit) in English Linguistics, Institute of Modern Languages, University of Würzburg, Germany, 2011 – present.

Researcher and Lecturer (wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) in English Linguistics, Institute of English and American Studies, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, 2009 – 2010.

Researcher and Lecturer (wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) in German Linguistics, Institute of German Studies, University of Potsdam, Germany, 2009.

Replacement for professorship (Vertretungsprofessur) in German Linguistics, Institute of German Studies, University of Potsdam, Germany, 2008 – 2009.

Researcher and Lecturer (wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin) in English Linguistics, Institute of English and American Studies, University of Potsdam, Germany, 2006 – 2009.

Graduate Assistant (geprüfte Hilfskraft) in English Linguistics, Institute of English and American Studies, University of Potsdam, Germany, 2003 – 2006.