Marina Reis de Souza

Research interests

  • Conversation analysis
  • Multimodality
  • video-based research
  • technology-mediated interaction
  • linguistic (im)politeness

 

Education

Since 12/2021: PhD student in English Linguistics, University of Hildesheim

(Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Friedrich Lenz; PD Dr. Maximiliane Frobenius)

Awarded the DAAD Prize for outstanding achievements of international students (University of Hildesheim, 2023)

 

Working title: A multimodal analysis of turn-initial elements: evidence from video interactions among English as a Lingua Franca speakers

2018-2020: Master of Arts in German and English Linguistics, Leibniz University Hannover

2008-2013: Teaching degree in English language and literature in English, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil

 

Short CV

since 04/2021: research assistant (wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin), English Department, University of Hildesheim

10/2020 - 02/2021: student assistant, Leibniz Language Centre, Leibniz University Hannover

09/2019 - 03/2021: student assistant at the Chair of English Linguistics, Leibniz University Hannover

01/2017 - 03/2021: student assistant, Language Centre, TU Braunschweig

10/2013 - 07/2016: German and English teacher, Núcleo de Línguas, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil

 

Conference presentations (selection)

-  Multimodality and topic management: so-prefaced questions (09/2024) Panel: Embodiment at the Intersection of Grammar and Lexis in English – Anglistentag University of Augsburg

- The Multimodal Accomplishment of Topic Shifts in Video-mediated Interaction (08/2024). 21st AILA World Congress Kuala Lumpur 2024

- Responding to solicited informings with oh okay and stand-alone okay in video-mediated interaction (06/2024). Discourse Markers: Markers in Discourse and Markers on Discourse – University of Lorraine, Metz, France

- Invited talk: Gaze in video-mediated interaction (11/2023). Research Center Intercultural Communication in Multimodal Interactions, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil

- Multimodal responsive actions: Turn-initial particles and raised eyebrows in video-mediated interaction (07/2023). Panel Let the Face respond - 18th International Pragmatics Conference, Free University of Brussels, Belgium

- Multimodal sequence-closing devices in video-mediated interaction (03/2023). IV Meeting Conversation Analysis in Brazil, Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil

- Poster presentation: Turn-initial elements in informal Skype interaction (04/2022). 22. Norddeutschen Linguistischen Kolloquium

- Presentation: Turn-initial elements in video-mediated interaction (02/2022). Forschungskolloquium des Fachbereichs 3, University of Hildesheim

 

Publications

- Marzinzik, S. J. & Reis de Souza, M. (2024). Book review of Baierl, Ronny. 2021. Academic Research Skills. Akademische Forschungskompetenzen bilingual. Zeitschrift für Angewandte Linguistik.

- Reis de Souza, M. (2024) Multimodal responses to questions: turn-initial oh coordinating with raised eyebrows in video-mediated interaction. Gesprächsforschung 25, 54-74.

- Budde, H. K., Hendricks, D., Reis de Souza, M. (2023). Bericht über die 18. Konferenz der International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) vom 9.-14.7.2023 in Brüssel (Belgien). Gesprächsforschung 24, 181-194.