I’m a PhD student focusing on formal and experimental semantics and pragmatics at Goethe University Frankfurt, working in a DFG-funded ViCom project called Visual and non-visual means of perspective taking in language (PIs: Cornelia Ebert (Goethe University Frankfurt) and Stefan Hinterwimmer (University of Hamburg)). I am thus especially interested in interactions of perspective taking in speech and speech-accompanying gestures. In my PhD thesis, I investigated the interactions of perspective-taking in gesture and speech, with a focus on the cross-modal architecture of perspective-taking, the dynamics of multiperspectivity in multimodal language, and the role of perspective in the interpretation of iconic gestures. To this end, I integrated insights from several experimental studies into formal-semantic analyses of these phenomena.

Besides my research interest in the expression of perspective across different modalities in language, I am also interested in topics such as gesture semantics, at-issueness, expressivity, modals, and multimodal response strategies.