I am a PhD candidate and research assistant in the Department of Languages and Literatures at the University of Basel, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Lorenza Mondada. I am also a member of the Hermann Paul School of Linguistics Basel–Freiburg.

I completed my MA in Language and Communication Sciences, with a major in Theoretical and Applied Studies and Sociology, at the University of Neuchâtel in 2024. Using a Conversation Analysis approach, my master’s thesis examined the methods used by French journalists to formulate "antagonistic" questions during political interviews. This research, which focused on participants’ verbal behavior, confirmed that the analytical framework developed by Clayman and Heritage (2002) for assessing the aggressiveness of journalists’ questions during U.S. presidential press conferences is also applicable to political interviews in France.

Currently, I am part of the team working on the SNSF-funded project "Everybody Speaks about the Weather: An EMCA Approach to Weather in Social Interaction." This project investigates how individuals integrate meteorological conditions into their daily activities, decisions, and lived experiences, and how these experiences relate to broader concerns about climate change. Within this project, my research focuses on outdoor interactional settings, particularly in sport activities such as running, paragliding, and bouldering. From an Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis (EMCA) perspective, I am interested in how people reason about, negotiate, and interpret weather conditions as crucial factors affecting their sport activities, and in how these processes shape the organization of their interactions.

RESEARCH TOPICS

Social interaction

Conversation Analysis

Ethnometodology

Multimodality

WORKSHOP PRESENTATIONS

Borrero Osorio A. (2025, November). Changing Running Plans for Hot Weather. Presentation and Data session at the workshop "Outdoor Interactions, in any Weather". University of Basel, Switzerland.