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2026

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
61
Citations
17869
World Ranking
1335
National Ranking
7

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Switzerland Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Switzerland Leader Award

Overview

Lorenza Mondada is affiliated with the University of Basel in Switzerland. Their research spans several fields including Arts and Humanities, Psychology, and Social Sciences. Within these broad fields, their work focuses on subfields such as Language and Linguistics, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Philosophy, Literature and Literary Theory, and Sociology and Political Science.

The main topics explored in their research include Language, Discourse, and Communication Strategies, Language, Metaphor, and Cognition, Linguistics and Discourse Analysis, Digital Communication and Language, Discourse Analysis in Language Studies, Multisensory Perception and Integration, and linguistics and terminology studies.

Lorenza Mondada has published extensively, with recent papers including:

  • Orchestrating Multi-sensoriality in Tasting Sessions: Sensing Bodies, Normativity, and Language (2020) - Symbolic Interaction
  • Audible Sniffs: Smelling-in-Interaction (2020) - Research on Language and Social Interaction
  • Human sociality in the times of the Covid-19 pandemic: A systematic examination of change in greetings (2020) - Journal of Sociolinguistics
  • How Early can Embodied Responses be? Issues in Time and Sequentiality (2021) - Discourse Processes
  • Early Responses: An Introduction (2021) - Discourse Processes

In addition to journal articles, they have contributed to book publications, notably the 2021 title Sensing in Social Interaction published by Cambridge University Press.

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Burak S. Tekin
  • Hanna Svensson
  • Marja-Leena Sorjonen
  • Sofian A. Bouaouina
  • Guillaume Gauthier

Lorenza Mondada has published in various venues, with repeated contributions to:

  • Cahiers du Centre de Linguistique et des Sciences du Langage
  • Langage et société
  • Research on Language and Social Interaction
  • Discourse Processes
  • Language & Communication

Best Publications

  • Second Language Acquisition as Situated Practice: Task Accomplishment in the French Second Language Classroom

    Lorenza Mondada;Simona Pekarek Doehler

  • Multiple Temporalities of Language and Body in Interaction: Challenges for Transcribing Multimodality

    Lorenza Mondada

  • Multimodal resources for turn-taking pointing and the emergence of possible next speakers

    Lorenza Mondada

  • Challenges of multimodality: Language and the body in social interaction

    Lorenza Mondada;Lorenza Mondada

  • Knowledge, morality and affiliation in social interaction

    Tanya Stivers;Tanya Stivers;Lorenza Mondada;Jakob Steensig

  • The Morality of Knowledge in Conversation

    Tanya Stivers;Tanya Stivers;Lorenza Mondada;Jakob Steensig

  • The local constitution of multimodal resources for social interaction

    Lorenza Mondada

  • Emergent focused interactions in public places: A systematic analysis of the multimodal achievement of a common interactional space

    Lorenza Mondada

  • Video Recording as the Reflexive Preservation and Configuration of Phenomenal Features for Analysis

    Lorenza Mondada

  • Contemporary issues in conversation analysis: Embodiment and materiality, multimodality and multisensoriality in social interaction

    Lorenza Mondada

  • Territories of knowledge, territories of experience: empathic moments in interaction

    Tanya Stivers;Lorenza Mondada;Jakob Steensig

  • Understanding as an embodied, situated and sequential achievement in interaction

    Lorenza Mondada

  • Décrire la ville : la construction des savoirs urbains dans l'interaction et dans le texte

    Lorenza Mondada

  • The conversation analytic approach to data collection

    Lorenza Mondada

  • Participants’ online analysis and multimodal practices: projecting the end of the turn and the closing of the sequence

    Lorenza Mondada

  • Commentary: transcript variations and the indexicality of transcribing practices:

    Lorenza Mondada

  • Using Video for a Sequential and Multimodal Analysis of Social Interaction: Videotaping Institutional Telephone Calls

    Lorenza Mondada

  • Working with video: how surgeons produce video records of their actions

    Lorenza Mondada

  • Construction des objets de discours et catégorisation: une approche des processus de référenciation

    Lorenza Mondada;Danièle Dubois

  • Multiactivity in Social Interaction: Beyond Multitasking

    Pentti Haddington;Tiina Keisanen;Lorenza Mondada;Maurice Nevile

  • Corpus oraux : guide des bonnes pratiques 2006

    Olivier Baude;Claire Blanche-Benveniste;Marie-France Calas;Paul Cappeau

Frequent Co-Authors

Tanya Stivers
Tanya Stivers University of California, Los Angeles
Christian Heath
Christian Heath King's College London

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