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SNSF Advanced Grant for Prof. Dr. Lorenza Mondada
Linguist Prof. Dr. Lorenza Mondada receives one of the Swiss National Science Foundation's highly competitive funding awards
With the SNSF Advanced Grants, the Swiss National Science Foundation supports outstanding scientists in Switzerland who choose innovative approaches to reach new insights. The approved projects are funded with an average grant of 1.9 million over a period of five years. Of the 16 projects funded across Switzerland, three were awarded to researchers at the University of Basel.
The SNSF Advanced Grants were launched in 2021 on behalf of the Swiss government to provide researchers at Swiss institutions with a substitute to the ERC Advanced Grants, for which they could not apply, due to limited access to the EU’s Horizon Europe research program.
At the end of 2024, the European Commission announced a transitional agreement effective January 1, 2025. This will grant researchers from Switzerland full access to all Horizon Europe funding calls starting in 2025.
Body and time in social interactions
Communication is more than just talk; facial expressions, gestures, and, more generally, the body are integral parts of social interactions. The interplay of these components, especially their temporal relationships, is complex.
The project led by linguist Prof. Dr. Lorenza Mondada examines how language and the body are simultaneously used during exchanges between people. It aims to develop a new framework that better describes the temporal complexity of language and body movements in social interactions and highlights how this affects the production and understanding of communication.
The project follows an empirical approach: researchers analyze concrete everyday situations in which people communicate using videos and transcriptions. The goal is to develop an understanding of the role time plays in such interactions. The project also provides practical insights, for instance, into managing time pressure, multitasking, or time-critical tasks in society.
Since 2012, Lorenza Mondada has held the Chair of General Linguistics and French Linguistics at the University of Basel. Her research explores various aspects of human interaction in different social contexts.