Full Name
Lorenza Mondada
Speaker Bio
Lorenza Mondada is Professor for linguistics at the University of Basel. Working on social interaction in ordinary, professional and institutional settings, within an ethnomethodological and conversation analytic perspective, she focuses on video analysis and multimodality. Her research on how the situated and endogenous organization of social interaction draws on a diversity of multimodal resources, articulates language with gesture, gaze, body posture, body movements, objects manipulations as well as multisensorial practices involving vision, touch, taste and smell. She has extensively published in J. of Pragmatics, Discourse Studies, Language in Society, ROLSI, J. of Sociolinguistics, co-edited several collective books, as well as elaborated her approach of sensoriality in the book Sensing in Social Interaction (CUP, 2021).
see https://www.lorenzamondada.net/about