Prof. Dr. phil. Arnulf Deppermann

Function:

Head of the Pragmatics Department and of the Program Area "Interaction"
Professor for German Linguistics at the University of Mannheim

Activities:

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) (2008-2016)
Member of the Editorial Board of Pragmatics
Member of the Board of Advisory Editors of the Journal of Pragmatics
Member of the Editorial Board of Deutsche Sprache (DS)
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Finnish Centre of Excellence in Intersubjectivity in Interaction
Member of the Scientific Advisory Council of the Centre of Excellence ASLAN (Études avancées sur la complexité du langage - Advanced Studies on LANguage complexity)
Member of the International Editorial Board of the Journal Social Interaction. Video-based Studies of Human Sociality
Member of the Editorial Board of the Series Studies in Language and Social Interaction (SLSI)

Areas of Research:

Interactive constitution of meaning, understanding and intersubjectivity in interaction, multimodal interaction, cognition in interaction, spoken German, positioning in narratives, advances in conversation analytic methodology

Recent English Publications:

Deppermann, Arnulf (2018): Intersubjectivity and other grounds for action-coordination in an environment of restricted interaction: Coordinating with oncoming traffic when passing an obstacle. In: Language & Communication.

Betz, Emma / Deppermann, Arnulf (2018): Indexing priority of position: Eben as response particle in German. In: Research on Language and Social Interaction 51 (2), pp. 171-193.

Deppermann, Arnulf (2018): Inferential Practices in Social Interaction. A Conversation-Analytic Account. In: Open Linguistics 4 (1), pp. 35-55. PDF

Deppermann, Arnulf (2018): Instruction practices in German driving lessons: Differential uses of declaratives and imperatives. In: International Journal of Applied Linguistics 28 (2), Special Issue on Driving School Interaction, pp. 265-282.

Deppermann, Arnulf (2018): Editorial: Instructions in Driving Lessons. In: International Journal of Applied Linguistics 28 (2), Special Issue on Driving School Interaction, S. 221-225.

Deppermann, Arnulf (2018): Chuck Goodwin's two ground-breaking contributions to the study of social interaction: simultaneities in multimodal interaction and professional vision. In: Favareau, Donald (ed.): Co-operative engagements in intertwined semiosis: essays in honour of Charles Goodwin. (= Tartu semiotics library 19). Tartu: University of Tartu Press, pp. 66-84

Zinken, Jörg / Deppermann, Arnulf (2017): A cline of visible commitment in the situated design of imperative turns. Evidence from German and Polish. In Sorjonen, Marja-Leena / Raevaara, Liisa / Couper-Kuhlen, Elizabeth (eds.): Imperative Turns at Talk. The design of directives in action. Amsterdam, NJ: John Benjamins Publishing Company, pp. 27-63.

Helmer, Henrike / Reineke, Silke / Deppermann, Arnulf (2016): A range of uses of negative epistemic constructions in German: ich weiß nicht as a resource for dispreferred actions. In: Journal of Pragmatics 106, pp. 97-114. PDF
Deppermann, Arnulf (2016): La définition comme action multimodale pour des enjeux pratiques : définir pour instruire à l'auto-école. In: Langage 204 (4), pp. 83-101.

Koplenig, Alexander / Knöbl, Ralf / Deppermann, Arnulf (2016): Methodological Approaches to People's Notions of Spoken Standard German. In: Linguistische Berichte 246, pp. 171-196. PDF

Deppermann, Arnulf (2015): Positioning. In: De Fina, Anna / Georgakopoulou, Alexandra (eds.): The Handbook of Narrative Analysis. New York: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 369-387.

Deppermann, Arnulf (2015): When recipient design fails: Egocentric turn-design of instructions in driving school lessons leading to breakdowns of intersubjectivity. In: Gesprächsforschung – Online-Zeitschrift zur verbalen Interaktion, 16. pp. 63-101. PDF

Deppermann, Arnulf / Günthner, Susanne (eds.) (2015): Temporality in Interaction. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Deppermann, Arnulf / Günthner, Susanne (2015): "Introduction: Temporality in interaction". In: Deppermann, Arnulf / Günthner, Susanne (eds.): Temporality in Interaction. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 1-23. PDF

Deppermann, Arnulf (2015): Retrospection and understanding in interaction. In: Deppermann, Arnulf / Günthner, Susanne (eds.): Temporality in Interaction. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 57-94. PDF

Arnulf Deppermann (2014): Multimodal participation in simultaneous joint projects: Interpersonal and intrapersonal coordination in paramedic emergency drill. In: Haddington, Pentti, Tiina Keisanen, Lorenza Mondada and Maurice Nevile (eds.): Multiactivity in Social Interaction: Beyond multitasking. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins, pp. 247–282. PDF

Deppermann, Arnulf (2014): "Don't get me wrong": Recipient design by reactive and anticipatory uses of negation to constrain an action's interpretation. In: Günthner, Susanne / Imo, Wolfgang / Bücker, Jörg (eds.): Grammar and Dialogism. Sequential, syntactic, and prosodic patterns between emergence and sedimentation. (Linguistik - Impulse & Tendenzen 61). Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter, pp. 15-51. PDF

Arnulf Deppermann (2013): Editorial: Positioning in narrative interaction. In: Narrative Inquiry 23 (1), pp. 1–15. PDF

Arnulf Deppermann (2013): How to get a grip on identities-in-interaction: (What) Does ’Positioning’ offer more than ’Membership Categorization’? Evidence from a mock story. In: Narrative Inquiry 23 (1), pp. 62–88. PDF

Deppermann, Arnulf / Kleiner, Stefan / Knöbl, Ralf (2013): 'Standard usage': Towards a realistic conception of spoken standard German. In: Auer, Peter/ Reina, Javier Caro/Kaufmann, Göz: Language Variation - European Perspectives IV. Selected papers from the Sixth International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 6), Freiburg, June 2011. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins (SILV 14), pp. 83-116. PDF

Deppermann, Arnulf (ed.) (2013): "Conversation Analytic Studies of Multimodal Interaction." Journal of Pragmatics 46, 1 (Special Issue).

Deppermann, Arnulf (2013): "Introduction: Multimodal interaction from a conversation analytic perspective." In: Journal of Pragmatics 46, 1, pp. 1-7. PDF

Deppermann, Arnulf (2013): "Turn-design at turn-beginnings: Multimodal resources to deal with tasks of turn-construction in German." In: Journal of Pragmatics 46, 1, pp. 91-121. PDF

Egbert, Maria / Deppermann, Arnulf (eds.) (2012): Hearing Aids Communication. Mannheim: Verlag für Gesprächsforschung. PDF

Deppermann, Arnulf (2012): Negotiating hearing problems in doctor-patient interaction: Practices and problems of accomplishing shared reality. In: Egbert, Maria / Deppermann, Arnulf (eds.): Hearing Aids Communication. Mannheim: Verlag für Gesprächsforschung, pp. 90-103. PDF

Egbert, Maria / Deppermann, Arnulf (2012): Introduction to Conversation Analysis with examples from audiology. In: Egbert, Maria / Deppermann, Arnulf (eds.): Hearing Aids Communication. Integrating Social Interaction, Audiology and User Centered Design to Improve Communication with Hearing Loss and Hearing Technologies, pp. 40-47 - Mannheim: Verlag für Gesprächsforschung. PDF

Deppermann, Arnulf / Egbert, Maria (2012): Conclusions and future perspectives for application and innovation. In: Egbert, Maria/Deppermann, Arnulf (Hrsg.): Hearing Aids Communication. Integrating Social Interaction, Audiology and User Centered Design to Improve Communication with Hearing Loss and Hearing Technologies. Mannheim: Verlag für Gesprächsforschung, pp. 159-163. PDF

Deppermann, Arnulf (2012): How does 'cognition' matter to the analysis of talk-in-interaction? In: Language Sciences Vol. 34 (2012), Issue 6, pp. 746-767. PDF

Deppermann, Arnulf / Spranz-Fogasy, Thomas (2011): Doctors' questions as displays of understanding. In: Communication & Medicine, Volume 8(2) (2011), pp. 111–124. PDF

Deppermann, Arnulf (2011): Constructions vs. lexical items as sources of complex meanings. A comparative study of constructions with German verstehen. In: Auer, Peter / Pfänder, Stefan (eds.): Constructions. Emerging and Emergent. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, pp. 88-126. PDF

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

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

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. PDF

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. PDF

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. PDF

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. PDF

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. PDF

For a list of recent German publications, see the German page

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