Prof. Dr. Arnulf Deppermann

Head of the Pragmatics-Department

Professor for German Linguistics at Mannheim

Editor of the online-journal on conversation and discourse analysis ‘Gesprächsforschung’

Organizer of the International Conference on Conversation Analysis (ICCA10) at Mannheim and of the annual meetings on German speaking research on conversation and discourse analysis ‘Arbeitstagung zur Gesprächsforschung’

Member of the review board of the linguistics department ‘Fachkolleg Sprachwissenschaften’ at the German Research Council (DFG)

conversation analysis, construction grammar, understanding and cognition in interaction, semantics in conversation, interaction in medicine and psychotherapy, positioning in narratives

cf. alphabetical catalogue

Deppermann, Arnulf (2011): "The study of formulations as a key to an Interactional Semantics." In: Human Studies 34, 2, pp. 115-128.

Deppermann, Arnulf (2011): "Notionalizations: The transformation of descriptions into categorizations." In: Human Studies 34, 2, pp. 155-181.

Deppermann, Arnulf (2011): "Pragmatics and Grammar." In: Bublitz, Wolfgang / Norrick, Neil (eds.): Handbook of Pragmatics. Vol. 1: Foundations of Pragmatics. Berlin: de Gruyter, pp. 425-460.

Deppermann, Arnulf (2010): "Future prospects of research on prosody: The need for publicly available corpora. Comments on Margret Selting 'Prosody in interaction: State of the art'". In: Barth-Weingarten, Dagmar / Reber, Elisabeth /Selting, Margret (eds.): Prosody in interaction. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 41-47.

Deppermann, Arnulf / Mondada, Lorenza / Schmitt, Reinhold (2010): Agenda and emergence: contingent and planned activities in a meeting. In: Journal of Pragmatics 42, 6, pp. 1700-1718.

Deppermann, Arnulf / Schütte, Wilfried (2008): Data and transcription. In: Antos, Gerd / Ventola, Eija / Weber, Tilo (eds.): Handbook of Interpersonal Communication. Berlin: de Gruyter, pp. 179-213.

Deppermann, Arnulf (2007): Playing with the voice of the Other: Stylized "Kanaksprak" in conversations among German adolescents. In: Auer, Peter (ed.): Style and social identities - Alternative approaches to linguistic heterogeneity. Berlin/New York: Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 325-360.

Deppermann, Arnulf (2007): Using the Other for Oneself – Conversational practices of representing out-group-members among adolescents. In: Bamberg, Michael / De Fina, Anna / Schiffrin, Deborah (eds.): Selves and Identities in Narrative and Discourse. Amsterdam: Benjamins, pp. 273-301.

Deppermann, Arnulf (to appear): Constructions vs. lexical items as sources of complex meanings. A comparative study of constructions with German verstehen. In: Auer, Peter / Pfänder, Stefan (Eds.): Emergent constructions. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.