Simona Pekarek Doehler

Simona Pekarek Doehler is a Professor at the University of Neuchâtel, specializing in interactional linguistics and multimodal communication. She is affiliated with the Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS) in Mannheim, where she has delivered lectures on topics such as the systematic interplay between grammar, body language, and social interaction. Her research focuses on how participants in face-to-face interactions deploy grammatical structures, turn-taking positions, and embodied conduct in systematic ways to achieve specific communicative goals.

• Presented at the IDS Linguistic Research Colloquium in May 2024 and December 2023.
• Explores French expressions like 'comment on dit' and 'je sais pas' in relation to embodied conduct and sequential environment.
• Advocates for analyzing 'grammar-body interface' regularities to differentiate functional uses of linguistic constructions.

Her work bridges theoretical linguistics with empirical studies of interaction, emphasizing the methodological value of observing recurrent patterns in multimodal communication.