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Mailin Antomo is a Lecturer at the Department of Germanistic Linguistics, University of Göttingen. Since 2009, she has focused on the intersection of syntax, semantics, and pragmatics in contemporary German, with a particular emphasis on deceptive communication and visual language elements like gestures and emojis.
Her research spans:
- Pragmatics (theoretical and experimental studies of lying, implicatures)
- Interface phenomena (syntax-semantics-pragmatics interactions)
- Language education (German teacher training, linguistic diversity in schools)
- Visual communication (gestures, emojis as pragmatic markers)
She leads the DFG project Lying, deceiving, misleading: are we committed to our gestures? and contributes to the DFG network on Adverbial clauses and dependency relationships. Her awards include the Habilitationsabschlussstipendium für Frauen (2023) and a DFG graduate college stipend (2008–2009).
Antomo’s publications bridge grammar theory and educational applications, with recent works analyzing deceptive gestures, emoji pragmatics, and cross-linguistic presupposition strategies. She collaborates with Yuqiu Chen on experimental studies of nonverbal communication.
