I’m a post-doctoral researcher working in the Making Numbers Meaningful project led by Bodo Winter at the Department of English Language and Linguistics, University of Birmingham.
I’m interested in how people use language to create meaning in communication, both when interacting with others and when producing and interpreting language in various other settings. In my research I primarily use quantitative empirical methods, including controlled experimentation as well as computational and corpus analysis, to investigate issues related to pragmatic inferencing, strategic communication, argumentation and stance-taking, as well as expressive and affective meaning.
In my PhD, supervised by Michael Franke and Manfred Krifka, I investigated pragmatic prediction in the incremental interpretation of utterances containing indexical markers of epistemic stance in English and German.
Aside from being interested in theoretical issues in linguistics and cognitive science, I’m also interested in issues related to research design and methodology, and I teach basic data analysis and statistical modeling skills.