Research & Projects

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Perspective

Our research is dedicated to empirical, conceptual and methodological questions of language use, communicative practices and social interaction.

We investigate the verbal-language and multimodal processes mobilised by interaction participants as communicative resources in social interaction. The focus is on interactive-coordinative dynamics between the participants and the dynamic interplay of, especially, verbal language, gaze, gestures, movement in space and the production or manipulation of material structures. We explore this in authentic everyday situations, semi-experimental studies and technically mediatised scenarios, taking both a basic and application-oriented approach.

Topics

This research topic is implemented in the following thematic focuses:

Conversation research: multimodality, materiality, space
Human-Robot Interaction/ Human & Technology
Interaction Linguistics: Interaction & Grammar
Child-/Robot-Directed Behaviour: Motionese & Gaze of the Recipient
Foreign Language Interaction/ Immersive Schooling
Interaction under the conditions of age or cognitive impairment
Workplace Studies
Methodological considerations: Combining conversation analytic methods with novel technological procedures

Methods

The focus of the working group is on a range of methods for data collection:

Multi-perspective video recordings
Mobile eye tracking
Motion Capturing
Ethnographic field studies
Interviews

Data evaluation is primarily qualitative, conversation-analytical/conversation-analytical, corpus-based and thus seeks the connection to quantification.