Research
I am a researcher working on Multimodal and Interactional Linguistics, using the qualitative and empirical methods of conversation analysis, gesture studies, and the phonetics of talk-in-interaction for the study of video-recorded data in everyday interaction in English(es) and Spanish(es). I have worked on collaborative and polyphonic practices in interaction, including anticipatory completions, choral productions, co-animation (i.e. joint enactments), and interjections. I have also studied delicate social activities in conversation, such as gossip and self- and other-deprecation. My versatile research path has also taken me to engage in exploratory studies of atypical interaction, including speakers who stutter and people living with aphasia, particularly around the study of repair and disfluency, as well as on the study of breathing for better use of the voice. I have worked on the phonetics of human laughter, as well as on ethnomethodological studies of human-robot interaction on public streets.
In my time as an EFL teacher educator, I done research using Systemic Functional Linguistics and Discourse Intonation, developing frameworks for the description and teaching of intonational configurations in different speech genres. I have also briefly worked on Classroom Interaction, applying CA methods to the study of "questions" in the classroom.