Research
Current and selected research projects.
My work examines linguistic, pictorial, and multimodal communicative acts within the tradition of speech act theory inaugurated by J. L. Austin.
Doctoral project · in progress
Pictorial and Multimodal Communicative Acts
The dissertation develops a speech-act-theoretic account of what it is to assert, lie, or bear testimony with a picture, and of what changes when communication combines linguistic and pictorial elements.
Historical research dossier · German
Ritter, Erman und die Zink-Silber-Nadel
A source-critical reconstruction of Johann Wilhelm Ritter’s 1805 experiment and Paul Erman’s replications in 1807.
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