Elisabeth Geiger Poignant

Elisabeth Geiger Poignant is a Senior Lecturer in Interpreting Studies at Stockholm University's Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism. She is part of the SPRINT research group investigating cognition and processes in interpreting and translation. Her work focuses on interpreter-mediated public literary conversations, combining conversation analysis, narratology, and multimodal interaction analysis. She teaches interpretation theory and practical skills like consecutive and simultaneous interpreting.

Her research explores how interpreters manage narrative and linguistic complexity in public literary events, emphasizing cross-lingual communication and the role of prosody, gestures, and sequence structure. Articles center on topics like Nobel laureate events, source language hierarchies, and coherence in interpreted dialogues. No scientific awards are explicitly mentioned, but her prolific publications reflect academic recognition. She advises no listed students and no grants are detailed. She collaborates with the SPRINT group, studying advanced language use and cognitive processes in interpreting.