Profil

Zur Person

• seit 2021 apl. Professor an der Universität Heidelberg
• 2013 Reader in Language and Communication, Department of Psychology, University of Portsmouth
• 2003 Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology, University of Portsmouth
• 2002 Promotion in Allgemeiner Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Bielefeld (gefördert von der Robert-Bosch-Stiftung und der GFPS e.V.)

Forschungsförderung

• aktuelles Projekt: Norms, Rules and Morality across Languages (gefördert vom SAW-Wettbewerb der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft, 2020-2023). In dem Projekt bauen wir ein neuartiges Video-Parallelkorpus von alltäglichen Interaktionen in verschiedenen europäischen Sprachen auf (PECII: Parallel European Corpus of Informal Interaction); und untersuchen Aspekte unserer normativen Orientierung auf Andere im sozialen Alltag
• weitere Drittmittelförderung durch das Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), das Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), das European Research Council (ERC), die British Academy (BA), die British Psychological Society (BPS), und das Kulturwissenschaftliche Kolleg Konstanz

Forschungsschwerpunkte

• Bedeutung im Kontext sozialen Handelns
• Ethische und normative Aspekte sprachlichen Handelns
• Konversationsanalyse
• Soziale Interaktion in sprachvergleichender Perspektive
• Interpretation und das Verstehen von sozialen Handlungen

Lehre

Ich unterrichte regelmäßig zu Themen aus dem Bereich Sprache und Kommunikation. In diesem Bereich betreue ich auch Promotionen, Master- und Bachelorarbeiten.

Ausgewählte Publikationen

Bücher

• Zinken, J. (2016). Requesting responsibility. The morality of grammar in Polish and English family interaction. New York: Oxford University Press. [Review in LinguistList; Review in Ethnolinguistics] [Flyer]

Artikel in Fachzeitschriften und Beiträge in Sammelbänden

• Helmer, H. & Zinken, J. (2019). Das Heißt ("That Means") for Formulations and Du Meinst ("You Mean") for Repair? Interpretations of Prior Speakers' Turns in German. Research on Language and Social Interaction 52(2): 159-176.
• Floyd, S., Rossi, G., Baranova, J., Blythe, J., Dingemanse, M., Kendrick, K. H., Zinken, J., &  Enfield, N. J. (2018). Universals and cultural diversity in the expression of gratitude. Royal Society Open Science, 5: 180391. PDF
• Zinken, J. & Reddy, V. (2018). The practice of everyday life provides supporters and inviters of morally responsible agency. Invited commentary on John M. Doris, "Précis of Talking to Our Selves: Reflection, Ignorance, and Agency", Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 41, p. 53-54.
• Zinken, J. & Deppermann, A. (2017). A cline of visible commitment in the situated design of imperative turns. Evidence from German and Polish. In M.-L. Sorjonen, L. Raevaara, & E. Couper-Kuhlen (Eds.), 'Imperative Turns at Talk. The design of directives in action' (pp. 27-63). Amsterdam, NJ: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
• Rossi, G. & Zinken, J. (2017). Social agency and grammar. In N. J. Enfield & P. Kockelman (Eds.), Distributed Agency (pp. 79-86). New York: Oxford University Press.
• Rossi, G. & Zinken, J. (2016). Grammar and social agency. The pragmatics of impersonal deontic statements. Language, 92(4), e296-e325.
• Fasulo, A., Zinken, J., & Zinken, K. (2016). Asking ‘what about’ questions in chronic illness self-management meetings. Patient Education and Counselling 99, Issue 6, pp. 917–925. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1016/j.pec.2016.03.009
• Zinken, J. & Rossi, G. (2016). Assistance and other forms of cooperative engagement. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 49(1), 20-26.
• Zinken, J. (2015). Contingent control over shared goods. ‘Can I have x’ requests in British English informal interaction. Journal of Pragmatics. Available online 15 April 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2015.03.005
• Zinken, J. & Ogiermann, E. (2013). Responsibility and action. Invariants and diversity in object requests in Polish and British English interaction. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 46(3), 256-276.
• Kitzinger, C., Lerner, G., Zinken, J., Wilkinson, S., Kevoe-Feldman, H., Ellis, S. (2013). Reformulating place. Journal of Pragmatics, 55, 43-50.
• Zinken, J. (2012). Situated action is the primary locus of linguistic relativity [Comment on Sidnell & Enfield: Language diversity and social action. A third locus of linguistic relativity]. Current Anthropology, 53(3), 326-327.
• Zinken, J. & Borek, A. (2012). Working hand in hand? Interaction and interview data in the study of household conflict. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 9(2), 99-113.
• Richmond, J, Wilson, C. J., & Zinken, J. (2012). A feeling for the future: How does agency in time metaphors relate to feelings? European Journal of Social Psychology, 42, 813-823.
• Zinken, J. & Ogiermann, E. (2011). How to propose an action as an objective necessity. The case of Polish trzeba x (‘one needs to x’). Research on Language and Social Interaction, 44(3), 263-287.
• Zinken, J., Blakemore, C., Michałowska, K., Butler, L., & Skinner, T. (2011). Narrating psychological distress: Associations between cross-clausal integration and mental health difficulties. Applied Psycholinguistics, 32, 263–274
• Sinha, C., da Silva Sinha, V., Zinken, J., & Sampaio, W. (2011). When time is not space: The social and linguistic construction of time intervals and temporal event relations in an Amazonian culture. Language and Cognition, 3(1), 137-169.
• Zinken, J., Zinken, K., Wilson, J. C., Butler, L., & Skinner, T. (2010). Analysis of syntax and word use to predict successful participation in guided self-help for anxiety and depression. Psychiatry Research 179(2), 181-186.
• Zinken, J. (2010). Temporal frames of reference. In P. Chilton & V. Evans (Eds.), Language, cognition, and space (pp. 479-498). London: Equinox.
• Zinken, J. (2008). The metaphor of ‘linguistic relativity’. History & Philosophy of Psychology, 10(2), 1-10.
• Zinken, J. (2007). Discourse metaphors: The link between figurative language and habitual analogies. Cognitive Linguistics, 18(3), 443-464.

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