research fields
- semantics and pragmatics
- philosophy of language
- Ancient Greek linguistics
- logic
- digital humanities
research topics
- perspective in language
- commitments through language
- indexicality
- speech and attitude reports
- tense
- aspect
- performativity
- statistical natural-language processing
I'm currently leading an experimental project on the assignment of commitments in communication, together with Harriet Yates, Peter de Swart and Bob van Tiel. We have shown in a proof of method study that we can use fEMG, facial electromyography, to measure norm violations in discourse and from there derive the conversational commitments taken on. This method can now be used to learn more about what happens when we communicate.
Feel free to contact me if you would like to learn more about this!