Mojenn Schubert, M.A.

Leibniz-Institut für Deutsche Sprache
R 5, 6-13, Office 3.14
D-68161 Mannheim

E-Mail: schubert(at)ids-mannheim.de

Tel.: +49 621 / 1581 – 314

Function:

Research assistant and PhD student at the Pragmatics Department

Activities:

Research assistant and PhD student in the project Multimodal Interaction

Personal details:

  • 2023 (Jan. - March): Research visit at the University of Oulu, Finland (invited by Prof. Dr. Pentti Haddington)
  • since May 2021: Research assistant at the Pragmatics Department
  • 2018 - 2021: M.A. program "Language und Communication" at the University of Mannheim
  • 2020 (Feb. - Apr.): Internship at the research group “Communication in Social Interaction” (supervisor: Dr. Judith Holler) at Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour in Nijmegen, Netherlands
  • 2016 - 2020: Student assistant at the IDS at the Pragmatics Department (projects "FOLK"and "Multimodal Interaction") and the Department of Lexical Studies (project "LeGeDe")
  • 2014 - 2018: B.A. program in German Studies and Philosophy at the University of Mannheim

Research interests:

Conversation Analysis, Gesture Studies, Multimodality in Social Interaction, Interactional Linguistics, Grammar of spoken German

Teaching:

  • Summer term 2022: undergraduate course “Particles in spoken German”, University of Mannheim (with: Nadine Proske).

Recent publications:

  • Schubert, Mojenn (2024). Sustained Pointing Gestures in Instructions and Questions: How the Temporal Extent of a Gesture matters in Interaction. Social Interaction. Video-Based Studies of Human Sociality(2). https://doi.org/10.7146/si.v7i2.137058

Conference presentations:

  • 26.09.2024 Navigating the topical landscape: Pointing at others as an embodied backlinking device in multi-party interaction. MMSYM 2024 (Symposium Series on Multimodal Communication), Frankfurt.
  • 11.09.2024 (together with Carolina Fenner and Laurenz Kornfeld): 'das ist schon' als unvollendete TCU: Unterbrochener Rhythmus oder gewollte Leerstelle? GAL Jahrestagung 2024, Dresden.
  • 02.07.2024 Zeigen auf Andere als Verweismittel in ko-präsenter Interaktion. Kolloquium "Referenzielle Praktiken", Universität Münster.
  • 06.03.2024 Zeigen auf Andere zur Herstellung thematischer Kohärenz und sozialer Verbundenheit. Postersession: 60. Jahrestagung des Leibniz-Instituts für Deutsche Sprache "Gesprochenes Deutsch: Struktur, Variation, Interaktion", Mannheim.
  • 27.06.2023 What does gesture contribute to a social action? The case of pointing when asking a question. International Conference on Conversation Analysis (ICCA 2023), Brisbane, Australien.
  • 31.10.2022 When do pointing gestures end? Digital Meeting for Conversation Analysis (DMCA), online.
  • 16.03.2022 Zur Adaptabilität von Zeigegesten in der sozialen Interaktion. Postersession: 58. Jahrestagung des Leibniz-Instituts für Deutsche Sprache "Korpora in der germanistischen Sprachwissenschaft – mündlich, schriftlich, multimedial", online.
  • 22.02.2022 Zur Aufrechterhaltung von Zeigegesten über Turn-Grenzen hinweg: Gestische Holds im Dienste der Response Mobilization. Jahrestagung ALP 2022 "Pragmatik multimodal", online.

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