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.

Artikel in Fachzeitschriften und Beiträge in Sammelbänden

• Rossi, G., Dingemanse, M., Floyd, S., Baranova, J., Blythe, J, Kendrick, K., Zinken, J., & Enfield, N. (2023). Shared cross-cultural principles underlie human prosocial behavior at the smallest scale. Scientific Reports, 13(6057), 1-14.
• Küttner, U.-A., Vatanen, A., & Zinken, J. (2022). Invoking Rules in Everyday Family Interactions: A Method for Appealing to Practical Reason. Human Studies, 45, 793-823.
• Zinken, J. & Küttner, U.-A. (2022). Offering an Interpretation of Prior Talk in Everyday Interaction: A Semantic Map Approach. Discourse Processes, 59(4), pp. 298-325. DOI
• Zinken, J. & Kaiser, J. (2020). Formulating other minds in social interaction: Accountability and courses of action. Language in Society, First View, pp. 1-26. DOI
• Zinken, J. (2020). The Comparative Study of Social Action: What You Must and What You Can Do to Align with a Prior Speaker. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 53(4), pp. 443-462. DOI
• Zinken, J. (2020). Recruiting assistance and collaboration in Polish. In S. Floyd, Simeon, G. Rossi & N. J. Enfield (Eds.), Getting others to do things. A pragmatic typology of recruitments (pp. 281-324). Berlin: Language Science Press (Studies in Diversity Linguistics 31) DOI
• Zinken, J., Rossi, G., Reddy, V. (2020). Doing more than expected. Thanking recognizes another’s agency in providing assistance. In C. Taleghani-Nikazm, E. Betz & P. Golato (Eds.), Mobilizing Others. Grammar and lexis within larger activities. (= Studies in language and social interaction 33) (pp. 253-278). Amsterdam / Philadelphia: Benjamins.
• Zinken, J. & Costall, A. (2019). Diversity and Invariance in Human Social Action. Karl Duncker's “Situational Meanings” and the Schema of Linguistic Relativism. Paradigmi, 37(3), 491-506.
• 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. & 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. (2016). Grammar and social agency. The pragmatics of impersonal deontic statements. Language, 92(4), e296-e325.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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. (2007). Discourse metaphors: The link between figurative language and habitual analogies. Cognitive Linguistics, 18(3), 443-464.

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