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Naomi Francis is a researcher who transitioned to an Assistant Professorship on 14.06.2023. She previously held a postdoctoral position in the ERC project Speech Acts in Grammar and Discourse (SPAGAD), focusing on Semantics & Pragmatics. Her current university affiliation is unmentioned in the text.
Research Interests: Naomi's work bridges linguistic theory, discourse analysis, and pragmatic phenomena. She investigates speech acts, presuppositions, gesture in communication, and the interplay between routine and creativity in linguistic feedback. Her research often integrates multimodal and semantic-pragmatic frameworks.
Publications: Naomi published THROW (2023) in Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, exploring speech acts and pragmatic theory. Her recent presentations include BACK: A postural gesture of surprise (DGfS workshop, Universität Köln, 2023) and Even in presupposition denials (University of Ottawa, 2023).
