Plenary speakers

Robbie Love is Senior Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics at Aston University, UK, where he co-directs the Aston Corpus Linguistics Research Group and serves as editor of BAAL News on the Executive Committee of the British Association for Applied Linguistics. His research focuses on contemporary spoken British English, with interests in variation, swearing, modality, and discourse. He also works on corpus-based sociolinguistics, forensic linguistics, and language in education. Robbie is the creator and host of CorpusCast, a podcast on real-world applications of corpus linguistics. He previously held positions at Cambridge University Press & Assessment and the University of Leeds, and holds a BA, MA, and PhD from Lancaster University, where he led the Spoken BNC2014 project. https://robbielove.org/

Lorenza Mondada is Professor for linguistics at the University of Basel. Her research deals with social interaction in ordinary, professional and institutional settings, within an ethnomethodological and conversation analytic perspective. Her focus is on video analysis and multimodality, researching how the situated and endogenous organization of social interaction draws on a diversity of multimodal resources such as, beside language, gesture, gaze, body posture, movements, objets manipulations as well as multisensorial practices such as touching, tasting, smelling and seeing. https://www.lorenzamondada.net/

Marlou Rasenberg is a researcher at the Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University and a guest researcher at the Meertens Institute in the Linguistics and Language Variation group. She earned her BA in Communication and Information Sciences (Utrecht), an MA in Linguistics (Radboud University Nijmegen), and completed her 2023 PhD dissertation, Mutual understanding from a multimodal and interactional perspective, at Radboud. Her current work focuses on how humans navigate interactions with non-human actors - in particular: cats and LLMs - with an emphasis on the role language plays in the sense-making process.

Stefan Schnell is a senior researcher and group leader of the Corpus-based Typology (CorTyp) group at the Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Language Evolution, University of Zurich. Trained originally as documentary and field linguist, he has extensively worked on the Oceanic language Vera’a from North Vanuatu, documenting and describing its structure and usage. Moreover, Stefan has been advancing the newly emerging of corpus-based typology, where his research explores how speakers across diverse languages express events in discourse, focusing on the interplay between referential choice and sentence structure, including the investigation of variation in morphosyntax through quantitative corpus methods. As co-editor of the Multi‑CAST multilingual corpus, he contributes to advancing corpus-based typology and understanding of spoken language phenomena across typologically diverse contexts. https://stefanschnell.info/