Practices of Knowledge Management in the Mediatized Political Sphere
Description
This project analyzes how professional speakers (and lay participants) use linguistic, embodied, and material resources for meaning-making in political communication in the public sphere. The major focus of this work has been on practices of knowledge management in parliamentary debates and virtual discussion forums.
The monograph "Quoting in Parliamentary Question Time. Exploring recent change" (2021, Cambridge University Press) explored how participants claim evidence using quotations during the interaction at Prime Minister's Questions at the British House of Commons and how these practices have evolved during the late 20th and early 21st centuries. The innovative mixed-method approach developed in this study, diachronic interactional sociolinguistics, was designed to investigate changing language use in communities of practice on the micro level of social interaction. The findings were interpreted against the backdrop of social processes and a changing media landscape and theorized within the framework of usage-based grammar theories.
Grants and awards
Nomination of the monograph “Quoting in Parliamentary Question Time. Exploring recent change” (Cambridge University Press, 2021) for the Habilitationspreis des Anglistenverbands 2022.
Scientific Network “Multimodality and embodied interaction” funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). 1 Sept. 2012-30 Sept. 2019. � 66,225. [with Dr. Cornelia Gerhardt] https://www.corneliagerhardt.com/memi.html
Research fellowship at the Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB)/USA, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). 1 March-15 July 2016. Faculty sponsor: Prof. Dr. Geoffrey Raymond. � 29,000.
Published research
Fetzer, Anita and Elisabeth Reber. 2015. Quoting in political discourse: Professional talk meets ordinary postings. In: Jenny Arendholz, Monika Kirner, and Wolfram Bublitz (eds.), Quoting Now and Then, 97-124. Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter Mouton.
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Reber, Elisabeth. 2021. Quoting in Parliamentary Question Time. Exploring recent change (Studies in English Language). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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Reber, Elisabeth. 2021. Calibrating syntax, prosody and gaze in parliamentary questions. In: Maxi Kupetz and Friederike Kern (eds.), Prosodie in der multimodalen Welt, 239-266. Universit?tsverlag Winter: Heidelberg.
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Reber, Elisabeth. 2020. Visuo-material performances: ‘Literalized’ reported speech in parliamentary question time. Special Issue ‘Linguistic Recycling: The process of quoting in increasingly mediatized settings’ (Lauri Haapanen and Daniel Perrin, eds.). AILA Review 33, 176-203.
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Reber, Elisabeth. 2019. Punch and Judy politics? Embodying challenging courses of actions in parliament. In: Elisabeth Reber and Cornelia Gerhardt (eds.), Embodied Activities in Face-to-face and Mediated Settings: Social encounters in time and space, 255-297. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
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Reber, Elisabeth. 2014. Constructing evidence at Prime Minister's Question Time: An analysis of the grammar, semantics and pragmatics of the verb see. Special Issue ‘Evidentiality in Discourse’ (Anita Fetzer and Etsuko Oishi, eds.). Intercultural Pragmatics 11:3, 357-387.
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Reber, Elisabeth. 2014. Obama said it. Quoting as evidential strategy in online discussion forums. Special Issue ?Certainty and Uncertainty in Dialogue’ (Andrzej Zuczkowsky, ed.). Language and Dialogue 4:1, 76-92
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Reber, Elisabeth and Cornelia Gerhardt, eds. 2019. Embodied Activities in Face-to-face and Mediated Settings: Social encounters in time and space. London: Palgrave Macmillan.