Paul Sbertoli-Nielsen

Paul Sbertoli-Nielsen is a Doctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Linguistics and Nordic Studies at the University of Oslo, Faculty of Humanities. His research is centered on empirical, multimodal analysis of everyday communication across Norwegian, English, and Spanish, using frameworks from Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics. He actively contributes to international research networks such as the Nordic Network for Intercultural Communication (NIC), Richard Ogden’s international CA group, and the Seminario Permanente de Análisis de la Conversación (SPAC).

His academic training includes an MA in European Languages and a BA in Philosophy, both from the University of Oslo. His MA focused on corpus linguistics, relevance theory, multilingualism, and discourse analysis, with a thesis comparing Norwegian and Spanish politeness and conversational style. His philosophical background emphasizes epistemology and the philosophy of language.

Sbertoli-Nielsen’s research investigates universal and language-specific features of talk-in-interaction, particularly response particles, turn-taking, and multimodal alignment. His recent publications explore bilabial-nasal response tokens in Norwegian and multimodal grammatical aspect in Spanish, highlighting how small linguistic details contribute to intersubjective understanding and affective affiliation. His work has implications for language teaching and intercultural communication.

His most recent articles, published in Interactional Linguistics and Norsk lingvistisk tidsskrift, reflect a strong trend in fine-grained, multimodal analysis of spoken interaction, combining phonetic detail with sequential and interactional context. These studies span cross-linguistic comparisons and contribute to typological pragmatics and interactional grammar.

He has not received any explicitly mentioned scientific awards or prizes.

Paul has advised no students listed in the provided text. He has not been awarded any named grants, although his participation in multiple international research groups suggests collaborative research engagement. His work is supported by institutional affiliations and publication in peer-reviewed journals.

He is a member of the Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics research group at the University of Oslo, which serves as his primary academic lab and intellectual community. His regional and international collaborations extend this network across Europe and the Spanish-speaking world, forming a distributed but cohesive research team focused on cross-linguistic interactional patterns.