Position
- Professor (MSO) for Language and Technology Interaction
- Associate Professor for English Language and Linguistics
- Director of the Human-Robot Interaction Lab Sønderborg
Research Areas
- Pragmatics, Discourse and Conversation
- Human-Computer and Human-Robot Interaction
- Construction Grammar
- Discourse Markers and Modal Particles
- Addressee-orientation & Recipient Design
- Document Design
Current Projects
- Human-Robot Interaction Lab Sønderborg (director)
- SMOOTH - Seamless Human-Robot Interaction for the Support of Elderly People (PI)
- Improving Second Language Pedagogy at the Prosody-Pragmatics Interface Using Human-Robot Interaction (coordinator)
- Cross Culture Forum (coordinator)
- Construction Grammar and the Description of Situated Spoken Interaction (coordinator)
- iTalk (PI)
Research Output and Activities
For an overview about Kerstin's work please see her researcher's profile at SDU. For full texts, please see her profile on ResearchGate.
Most important publications
- Fischer, Kerstin (2016): Designing Speech for a Recipient: The Roles of Partner Modeling, Alignment and Feedback in So-Called ‘Simplified Registers’. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
- Fischer, Kerstin (2015): Conversation, Construction Grammar, and Cognition. Language and Cognition 7: 563-588.
- Fischer, Kerstin (2010): Beyond the Sentence: Constructions, Frames and Spoken Interaction. Constructions and Frames 2(2), 185-207.
- Fischer, Kerstin (ed.) (2006): Approaches to Discourse Particles. Studies in Pragmatics 1. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
- Fischer, Kerstin (2000): From Cognitive Semantics to Lexical Pragmatics: The Functional Polysemy of Discourse Particles. Berlin, New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
Kerstin is Senior Associate Editor of the international journal Transactions in Human-Robot Interaction and Associate Editor of the book series Studies in Pragmatics (Brill).
Contact
University of Southern Denmark
Department of Design and Communication
Alsion 2
6400 Sønderborg (Denmark)
Mail kerstin@sdu.dk
Phone +45-6550-1220