IMS Aurora

Guest seminar: Ulrike Schröder and Anna Ladilova

This week's guest speakers are Ulrike Schröder, Professor of Linguistics and German Studies at Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil; and Anna Ladilova, Professor of Romance Studies at Justus-Liebig-Universität Giessen, Germany.

About the seminar

In this talk we will present the Research Center Intercultural Communication in Multimodal Interactions (ICMI) as well as two projects conducted by the coordinators. The international research network ICMI was established in 2019 and focusses on intercultural communication in multimodal interactions. The center aims to analyze how participants co-construct alterity, cultural concepts, identities, and intercultural spaces through verbal, prosodic, and visual means. ICMI's methodology involves videotaping and transcribing intercultural interactions in various settings, applying theories from pragmatics, linguistics, and gesture studies. The center has compiled a substantial corpus of over 2,400 minutes of videotaped interactions with a total of 56,164 intonation units. Currently we are inloved in the Probral Capes-DAAD Project on „The multimodal coordination of intercultural video-mediated interaction”. In this talk Ulrike Schröder will present her project on “Multimodal list constructions: Introducing cultural knowledge in vídeo-mediated talk-in-interaction” and Anna Ladilova will give her insights on the project on “The German criticidade absoLUTA: A multimodal analysis of the German willingness to criticize as perceived by Brazilian migrants in Germany“.

About the presenters

Prof. Dr. Ulrike Schröder is Full Professor of Linguistics and German Studies at the Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil. Her research areas comprise multimodal conversation analysis, interactional linguistics, gesture studies, intercultural pragmatics, and cognitive and linguistics. Recent publications include Multimodal Communication in Intercultural Interaction (ed. with E. Adami and J. Dailey-O’Cain, Routledge, 2023), and Metaphorical conceptualizations: (Inter)Cultural perspectives (ed. with M. Mendes de Oliveira and A. M. Tenuta, 2022, De Gruyter). Her monograph, Co-constructing Intercultural Space: An Embodied Approach, the key publication of her 15 years of work as Coordinator of the Research Centre Intercultural Communication in Multimodal Interactions - ICMI, will be published by the end of December in The Mouton Series in Pragmatics by De Gruyter.

Anna Ladilova is Professor for Romance Linguistics and Cultural Studies at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen, Germany. Her research focuses on intercultural communication and interactional multimodality, multilingualism and migration, word formation and corpus linguistics. More specifically, her work deals with (linguistic) integration strategies of migrants, the construction of collective identity, the multimodal negotiation of social meaning in interaction and the emergence of neologisms from a cross-cultural perspective.

 

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