Tatjana Juliana Shannon Schnellinger
About
Background
I am a PhD candidate in the Language and Linguistics programme at the Department of Language and Literature. I hold a BA and MA in English Studies as well as African Studies and Egyptology from the University of Cologne with a specialisation in linguistics. In addition, I have worked as a research assistant in the project 'Split ergativity in Tima' at the Collaborative Research Centre 'Prominence in Language' (CRC 1252) and as a live speaker at the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum in Cologne. My main research interests include contact languages, in particular Pidgins and Creoles; pragmatic variation; multilingualism and gesture studies.
Research
Research Interests
- Contact linguistics
- Sociolinguistics
- Linguistic anthropology
- Multilingualism
- Pragmatic variation
- Multimodality
PhD Project
My dissertation project explores how language shapes, and is shaped by culture, following a multi-disciplinary approach that brings together sociolinguistics, gesture studies, intercultural pragmatics, and linguistic anthropology to study linguistic practices among Afro-Surinamese communities. More specifically, the project focuses on flexible multilingualism and multimodal resources by exploring gesture-speech synchronisations in impolite discourse contexts. One aim of the research is to shed light on the visual gesture of Cut-Eye and the multimodal pragmatic marker of Kiss-teeth, two non-verbal forms of communication which are commonly used in African and Black diasporic communities.
In order to examine the interplay of these gestural forms and multilingual speech, this research will investigate the gestures’ functions in diglossic interactions, combining ethnography, elicitation tasks and analysis of video recordings. By using a corpus-based discourse analytical approach, the cross-cultural comparative study aims to generate spontaneous and comparable data that considers the multimodal, interactional and communicative aspects of plurilingual practices. The project is under the supervision of Professor Susanne Mohr (NTNU, Department of Language and Literature) and Prof. Susanne Mühleisen (University of Bayreuth).
Publications
2024
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Schnellinger, Tatjana Juliana Shannon.
(2024)
Indexing pragmatic functions of kiss-teeth through embodiment and viewpoint construction: Insights from a Surinamese participant.
Interactional Linguistics
Academic article
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Schnellinger, Tatjana Juliana Shannon.
(2024)
A multimodal perspective on communicative competence in multilingual Afro-Surinamese speaker communities.
De Gruyter Mouton
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Journal publications
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Schnellinger, Tatjana Juliana Shannon.
(2024)
Indexing pragmatic functions of kiss-teeth through embodiment and viewpoint construction: Insights from a Surinamese participant.
Interactional Linguistics
Academic article
Part of book/report
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Schnellinger, Tatjana Juliana Shannon.
(2024)
A multimodal perspective on communicative competence in multilingual Afro-Surinamese speaker communities.
De Gruyter Mouton
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Outreach
2024
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Academic lectureMohr, Susanne; Ackermann-Boström, Constanze; Schnellinger, Tatjana Juliana Shannon; Brunner, Marie-Louise. (2024) Under SCRUTINY – Exploring Multimodal Sustainability Discourses in Norwegian Cruise Tourism. Sustainability and Tourism: Interdisciplinary Perspectives 2024-05-14 -
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Academic lectureMohr, Susanne; Brunner, Marie-Louise; Schnellinger, Tatjana Juliana Shannon. (2024) The semiotic landscape of cruise tourism in Norway - Stylistic considerations on multimodal sustainability discourses. Poetics and Linguistics Association conference , Sheffield 2024-06-26 - 2024-06-29
2023
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Academic lectureMohr, Susanne; Schnellinger, Tatjana Juliana Shannon; Andrason, Alexander; Fehn, Anne-Maria. (2023) Finding the needle in a haystack – sustainability in complex fieldwork practices. Sustainable linguistics: theories and methods , Helsinki 2023-08-24 - 2023-08-25