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Maria Egbert

Associate Professor, Ph.D.; Habilitation
Associate Professor
IFKI - Institut for Fagsprog, Kommunikation og Informationsvidenskab

Phone: 6550 1257

Fax: 6550 1093

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Research areas

Human interaction is social
My research since 1990 is in the area of conversation analysis in the tradition of Harvey Sacks, Emanuel Schegloff and Gail Jefferson. The overall goal of this line of research is to understand how people shape their social relationships through language, nonverbal communication and their physical environment. The empirical basis consists of audio- or video-tape authentic situations.

Human interaction in different contexts and cultures
All aspects of human interaction in all kinds of contexts and cultures are studied in conversation analysis. My research has focused on private settings, intercultural communication, language proficiency interviews, psychiatry settings, and business meetings. My latest research interest is in understanding how hearing loss and the use of hearing aids impacts communication.

Some examples
Based on a video analysis of these settings I have worked on different topics. In all these settings my special interest has been on hearing and understanding problems (“repair”). Other topics have been group processes in which a conversation splits up in more than one parallel conversation (“schisming”), special characteristics in the interaction of first and second language speakers, the interactional representation of anxiety, and most recently, communication with hearing loss. Some of my research has concentrated on how the meaning of single words is related to non-lexical aspects, such as eye gaze, affiliation or a claim to the interactants’ shared knowledge. In the analysis of German conversation, my research has shown that some words are used quite differently than the dictionaries and lexica describe them.

My current project: "Hearing aids Communication"
Since 2008 I have worked on setting up a network of researchers and practitioners in conversation analysis, audiology and user centered design with the goal of understanding and improving communication with hearing loss and hearing aids. For more information visit our website hearing-aids-communication.org.

Affiliations

- - Associate Professor
SPIRE - Associate Professor

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Interaktion in der Audiometrie : Zur Paradoxie der Relevanzmarkierung von Störungen. / Egbert, Maria .

I: Sozialität in Slow Motion : Theoretische und empirische Perspektiven. red. / Ruth Ayaß ; Christian Meyer. Wiesbaden : Springer VS, 2012. s. 463-479.

Publikation : Forskning - peer review ›Bidrag til videnskabelig bog/antologi

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Introduction. / Egbert, Maria ; Deppermann, Arnulf.

I: Hearing Aids Communication : Integrating Social Interaction, Audiology and User Centered Design to Improve Communication with Hearing Loss and Hearing Technologies. Mannheim : Verlag für Gesprächsforschung, 2012. s. 1-8.