About me
I am currently a postdoctoral researcher on the AMoRe-project at the English Department of the University of Fribourg. The project is supervised by Dr. Steve Oswald and funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation under the Lead Agency Scheme, in collaboration with the Laboratory of the New Ethos, Warsaw University of Technology. Project Number: 10019E_202273. The project combines two methodologies (corpus and experimental research) to investigate how various forms of rephrase are performed and what perlocutionary effects can be achieved with the use of the respective forms. My current research activities on rephrase are linked to my PhD work on the straw man fallacy as well, since the straw man qualifies as a misuse of rephrase.
I completed my PhD under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Sandrine Zufferey at the French Language and Literature Institute of the University of Bern. In my doctoral thesis (The Pragmatics of Straw Man Fallacies. An Experimental Approach), I investigated the role of linguistic factors and their influence on the acceptability of the straw man by approaching the topic from an experimental pragmatic angle. The analyzed factors (locus of misrepresentation, type of reformulation, information structure, use of connectives in French, English, German and Spanish) showed that the underlying linguistic formulation of straw men can have an influence on their acceptability.
Work experience
March 2022 - present: Postdoctoral researcher SNSF in the AMoRe-project supervised by Dr. Steve Oswald, English Department, University of Fribourg.
October 2016 - February 2022: PhD student and assistant at the French Language and Literature Institute, University of Bern.
July 2017 - January 2018: Assistant in French Contemporary Literature at the Institute of Romance Studies, University of Zurich.
December 2013 - September 2016: Student assistant in French Linguistics and Literature at the French Language and Literature Institute, University of Bern.
October 2012 - February 2013: Data collection and transliteration for the postdoctoral lecture qualification of Prof. Dr. Silvia Natale (Italian Linguistics).
Education
December 2017 - February 2022: Certificate of Advanced Studies in Higher Education, Centre for Advanced Studies, University of Bern.
July 2017 - February 2022: Doctoral Program Studies in Language and Society. Graduate School of the Humanities and Arts, University of Bern.
October 2016 - February 2022: Doctoral thesis (The Pragmatics of Straw Man Fallacies. An Experimental Approach), French Language and Literature Institute, University of Bern.
Primary Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Sandrine Zufferey, University of Bern, Switzerland.
Secondary Supervisor: Dr. Steve Oswald, University of Fribourg, Switzerland.
Second Reviewer: Prof. Dr. Maarten van Leeuwen, University of Leiden, The Netherlands.
2013 - 2016: Master of Arts in French Language and Literature with special qualifications in linguistics.
2010 - 2013: Bachelor of Arts in French Language and Literature.
Scientific Committees and memberships
June 2024 - present: Member of the Argumentation and Language (ARGAGE) Steering Committee
January 2023 - present: Secretary of the Swiss Society for Linguistics
June 2022 - present: Member of the COST Action CA17132, European network for argumentation and public policy analysis (APPLY)
August 2017 - present: Member of the Societas Linguistica Europea (SLE)
Institutional activities
December 2016 - present: Expert for Matura Exams in French, Commission de Maturité du Canton de Berne.
November 2020 - November 2021: Representative for the doctoral students in the Centre-Commission, Centre for the Study of Language and Society, University of Bern.
September 2019 - November 2021: Representative for the doctoral students of the SLS program in the IFN-commission, Walter Benjamin Kolleg, University of Bern.
September 2020 - June 2021: Representative for the intermediate staff in the Evaluation Commission of the French Language and Literature Institute, University of Bern.
October 2020 - June 2021: Representative for the intermediate staff in the Appointment-Committee for the lecturer position in French Linguistics, University of Bern.
Teaching activities
2023
Autumn Semester: Directed Readings in linguistics. Propedeutic Seminar in English Linguistics, University of Fribourg.
Spring semester: Experimental approach to reformulation. Master Seminar in French Linguistics, University of Bern.
2022
Autumn semester: Language and Argumentation: fallacious arguments, Bachelor Seminar in French Linguistics, University of Bern
2021
Autumn semester: Research Methodology in Human Sciences, Propedeutic Seminar in French Linguistics, University of Bern.
Spring semester: Language and Argumentation: fallacious arguments, Bachelor Seminar in French Linguistics, University of Bern
2020
Autumn semester: Research Methodology in Human Sciences, Propedeutic Seminar in French Linguistics, University of Bern.
2019
Autumn semester: Research Methodology in Human Sciences, Propedeutic Seminar in French Linguistics, University of Bern.
Spring semester: Language and Argumentation: fallacious arguments, Bachelor Seminar in French Linguistics, University of Bern
2018
Autumn semester: Research Methodology in Human Sciences, Propedeutic Seminar in French Linguistics, University of Bern.
2017
Autumn semester: Research Methodology in Human Sciences, Propedeutic Seminar in French Linguistics, University of Bern.