Dr. Sophia Fiedler

Function

  • Postdoctoral researcher

Task area

  • In the project 'Interaktionale Lexik', I conceptualize and create an electronic information system that captures lexical units in a function-based way.

Personal data

  • since April 2025: Postdoc at the Leibniz-Institute for the German Language in the Department of Lexical Studies
  • 2024: Postdoc Mobility at the University of Waterloo (Canada) with Prof. Emma Betz
  • 2023-2025: Postdoc at the Université de Neuchâtel (Switzerland) in the field of interactional competence and second language acquisition
  • 2018-2023: Joint-PhD at the Université de Neuchâtel (Switzerland) and the University of Hamburg entitled 'The grammar-in-use of direct reported thought in French and German: an interactional and multimodal analysis'
  • 2012-2018: German and French Studies to become a secondary school teacher at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg

Research interests

  • Grammar-in-interaction, Interactional Linguistics, Interactional Competence, Cross-linguistics studies, German as a second language, French as a second language, Multimodality

Publications

Current selection:

Schirm, Sam / Fiedler, Sophia (2024):
Language-specific considerations of the development of L2 grammar-for-interaction: The case of ich weiß nicht “I don’t know” and keine Ahnung “no clue” in L2 German. In: ISCA. The International Society for Conversation Analysis. Newsletter.
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Fiedler, Sophia (2024):
The Grammar-in-use of Direct Reported Thought in French and German. An Interactional and Multimodal Analysis. Göttingen: Verlag für Gesprächsforschung.
Fiedler, Sophia (2023):
Thinking out loud? Je me suis dit ‘I said to myself’ and j’étais là ‘I was there’ in French talk-in-interaction. In: Casartelli, Daniela E. / Cruschina, Silvio / Posio, Pekka / Spronck, Stef (Hg.): The Grammar of thinking. From reported speech to reported thought in the languages of the world. (= Trends in linguistics: Studies and monographs 379). Berlin / Boston: de Gruyter. S. 141-170.
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Fiedler, Sophia / Janin, Loanne / Juillet, Melissa (2023):
Introduction. In: Fiedler, Sophia / Janin, Loanne / Juillet, Melissa (Hrsg.): Au carrefour entre grammaire et multimodalité: les ressources pour l’interaction / An der Schnittstelle von Grammatik und Multimodalität: Ressourcen (in) der Interaktion / At the crossroads between grammar and multimodality: ressources for interaction. (= Bulletin suisse de linguistique appliquée No 117). Neuchâtel: VALS/ASLA. S. 1-7.
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Fiedler, Sophia (2022):
Une reconsidération du discours rapporté en langue parlée avec être là, faire (à quelqu’un) et se dire. In: Langue française 4. Malakoff: Colin. S. 29-46.
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