Prof. Dr. Thomas Spranz-Fogasy
(Ehemaliger Mitarbeiter)
Function
- Co-opted member of the IDS (formerly research associate in the Pragmatics department)
- Adjunct Professor at the University of Mannheim
CV (short version)
1975-1981
Studies in Germanistics, Philosophy, History at the University of Heidelberg
1981-1985
Doctorate at the University of Heidelberg
1985-1987
Postdoctoral grant of the German Research Council (DFG)
1988-1993
Fellowship in the Collaborative Research Centre 245 "Language and situation" (Sonderforschungsbereich 245 "Sprache und Situation" of the German Research Council (DFG))
1993-1995
Habilitation grant of the German Research Council (DFG)
1996
Habilitation at the University of Mannheim
1996-2024
Researcher at the Institute for the German Language (IDS)
2011-2015
Researcher in the sub-project Hypothesis Building in Medical Care which is part of the project Professional Interaction ("Professionelles Handeln in der Interaktion")
2006-2014
Researcher in the sub-project Sequential and genre-specific Organization of Understanding which is part of the project "Verbal and communicative Displays of Understanding in Talk-in-Interaction"
-2024
Project leader Questioning Sequences in Coaching
-2024
Project leader Linguistic Manifestations of Resistance in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy (together with Arnulf Deppermann)
1987
Co-initiator of the semi-annual "Working Group Applied Discourse Analysis" (Arbeitskreises angewandte Gesprächsforschung (AAG))
2003-2020
Former Co-organizer of the Annual Research Meeting on Conversation and Discourse Analysis in Germany (Arbeitstagung zur Gesprächsforschung)
Co-organizer of the “International Conference on Conversation Analysis (ICCA10)“ at Mannheim in 2010
Co-organizer of the “International Conference on Conversation Analysis and Psychotherapy 2024 (ICCAP24)” in Mannheim
Former co-initiator and committee member of the “Society for the Promotion of Conversation and Discourse Analysis” in Germany (Gesprächsforschung e.V.)
2005-
Project manager of the domain of knowledge Medicine and Health-Care in the Research Network Language and Knowledge - Problems in public and professional Communication
Member of the DFG Research Network Linguistics and Medicine ("Linguistik und Medizin")
Guest lectureships in Sarajevo, Seoul, Waterloo (CAN), Peking
Areas of Research
Linguistic conversation analysis as basic and applied research in various fields: Counselling/therapy, medical and psychotherapeutic communication, coaching, mediation, family conflicts, environmental policy discussion, argumentation (publications), conversational rhetoric, communication of social leaders, interactive constitution of meaning, understanding in verbal interaction