Interview with Arnulf Deppermann

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conversation analysis, interactional linguistics, multimodality, corpora, talk-in-interaction

Abstract

The following text presents an interview with Prof. Dr. Arnulf Deppermann, director of the Department of Pragmatics at the Leibniz Institute for the German Language (Institut für Deutsche Sprache). The interview was conducted on March 31, 2026, at the Leibniz Institute for the German Language in Mannheim by Prof. Dr. Ulrike Schröder (UFMG). It addresses a range of issues concerning the current state of conversation analysis and interactional linguistics, including their global reception, historical development, and ongoing diversification. It also discusses methodological questions, such as the integration of multimodal resources into transcripts, the use of AI-based automatic speech recognition (ASR) tools for transcription, and corpus construction. In addition, it considers the limitations of conversation analysis, its possible interfaces with other approaches, and broader tendencies in contemporary linguistics. The interview was originally conducted in German. It was subsequently transcribed, revised, and adapted into a written version suitable for academic publication before being translated into English and Portuguese. For the sake of clarity and contextualization, all references to linguists mentioned during the interview have been expanded to include their first and last names, and footnotes with links to their homepages, university profiles, or encyclopedic entries have been added.

Author Biography

  • Schröder, Federal University of Minas Gerais

    Ulrike Schröder is Full Professor at the Faculty of Letters of the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil. She holds a Master’s degree in Communication, German Studies, and Psychology (1999), a PhD in Communication (2003), and a habilitation in the same field (2012), all from the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. She conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Münster with a CAPES-Humboldt fellowship from 2013 to 2014, and completed a senior research fellowship at the University of Texas at Austin, United States, and at the University of Duisburg-Essen, funded by the CAPES-PrInt Program, from 2020 to 2021.

    From 2021 to 2025, she chaired the Research Committee of the Faculty of Letters at UFMG. Her work lies in the fields of Linguistics and Communication, with an emphasis on language-in-use studies, particularly Interactional Linguistics, Conversation Analysis, Gesture Studies, Cognitive Linguistics, Pragmatics, Intercultural Communication, Linguistic Historiography, German Linguistics, and German as a Foreign Language.

    Since 2010, she has coordinated the international research center Intercultural Communication in Multimodal Interactions (ICMI), which is dedicated to the compilation and analysis of a corpus of recorded and transcribed intercultural interactions. She is also the leader of the interinstitutional CNPq research group “Language, Interaction, and Embodiment.”

    She currently coordinates the umbrella project “The Multimodal Coordination of Intercultural Video-Mediated Interaction,” funded by the PROBRAL Program (CAPES-DAAD). Since 2024, she has also coordinated the project “Developing a Methodology for the Multimodal Transcription and Analysis of Video-Mediated Talk-in-Interaction,” funded through the FAPEMIG Universal Program. She is a recipient of a Research Productivity Fellowship from the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq).

    Her recent publications include The Co-Construction of Intercultural Space: An Embodied Approach (De Gruyter, 2024) and Multimodal Communication in Intercultural Interaction (co-edited with E. Adami and J. Dailey-O’Cain, Routledge, 2023).

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2026-10-01

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Vol. 16 (2026): Single volume

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SCHRÖDER, Ulrike. Interview with Arnulf Deppermann. Entrepalavras, Fortaleza, v. 16, p. e97368, 2026. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufc.br/entrepalavras/article/view/97368. Acesso em: 8 oct. 2026.