In this episode you’ll hear an interview with two of the first researchers to apply EMCA in Germany — Jörg Bergmann (emeritus professor of sociology, University of Bielefeld) and Susanne Günthner (senior professor of German linguistics, University of Münster). Jörg Bergmann in his work has explored gossip and morality in discourse as well as the management of problems and disfluencies in conversation. Susanne Günthner’s research has focused on grammar in interaction and Construction Grammar, German as a second language, and intercultural communication.
In this interview, Sophia Fiedler (Université de Neuchâtel) asked Susanne and Jörg to talk about their personal histories with EMCA, about how the discipline came to and developed within Germany, and about where they see it going.