I am a member of the research project The First Five Words: Multilingualism and the Grammar of Language Choice, funded by the Swiss National Foundation (SNF) and directed by Prof. Lorenza Mondada (University of Basel) and Prof. Elwys De Stefani (KU Leuven). Drawing on Multimodal Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics, the project studies how unacquainted persons spontaneously engage in interaction in multilingual cities in Switzerland and Belgium. The prime focus of my individual work is on the investigation of encounters between unacquainted persons walking their dogs in public space.  With the aid of multimodal analyses of audio-visual corpora, I study how participants create interactional spaces in an emergent and dynamic way, considering the dogs as active participants in the interaction.

Furthermore, I actively participate in the project Human Sociality in the Age of Covid-19, studying how social relationships between persons coming and acting together in everyday life and work are changing during the Covid-19 crisis.

FIELDS OF RESEARCH

• Conversation Analysis
• Ethnomethodology
• Multimodal Analysis
• Interspecies Interaction

Hänggi, P., & Schneerson, J. (2023). Opening. In Alexandra Gubina, Elliott Hoey & Chase Wesley Raymond (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Terminology for Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics. International Society for Conversation Analysis (ISCA). https://emcawiki.net/Opening

Hänggi, P., & Schneerson, J. (2023). Pre-opening. In Alexandra Gubina, Elliott Hoey & Chase Wesley Raymond (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Terminology for Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics. International Society for Conversation Analysis (ISCA). https://emcawiki.net/Pre-opening

Schneerson, J., & Hänggi, P. (2023). Pre-beginning. In Alexandra Gubina, Elliott Hoey & Chase Wesley Raymond (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Terminology for Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics. International Society for Conversation Analysis (ISCA). https://emcawiki.net/Pre-beginning

D’Antoni, F., Debois, T., De Stefani, E., Hänggi, P., Mondada, L., Schneerson, J., & Tekin, B. S. (2022). Encounters in public space: The establishment of interactional space in face-to-face openings. In A. H. Jucker & H. Hausendorf (Eds.), Pragmatics of Space (pp. 281–316), Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Mouton. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110693713-010

Mondada, L., Bänninger, J., Bouaouina, S. A., Camus, L., Gauthier, G., Hänggi, P., Koda, M., Svensson, H., & Tekin, B. S. (2020). Human sociality in the times of the Covid-19 pandemic: A systematic examination of change in greetings. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 24(4), 1–28. doi:10.1111/josl.12433.

Mondada, L., Bänninger, J., Bouaouina, S., Gauthier, G., Hänggi, P., Koda, M., Svensson, H., & Tekin, B. S. (2020). Changing social practices. Covid-19 and new forms of sociality. Etnografia e ricerca qualitativa 2, 217–232. doi: 10.3240/97807.

Mondada, L., Bänninger, J., Bouaouina, S. A., Gauthier, G., Hänggi, P., Koda, M., Svensson, H., & Tekin, B. S. (2020). Doing paying during the Covid-19 pandemic. Discourse Studies, 22(6), 720–752. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461445620950860

Schneerson, J. (2023). Encounters on a walk: when dogs approach oncoming strangers. International Conference on Conversation Analysis (ICCA), 26 June–2 July 2023 in Brisbane, Australia.

Schneerson, J. (2022). Initiating talk from a distance. Digital Meeting for Conversation Analysis, 31 October–4 November 2022 (Virtual).

Schneerson, J. (2022). Passing by along the way: Encountering others when walking the dog together. Sociolinguistics Symposium 24, 13–16 July 2022 in Ghent, Belgium.

Schneerson, J. (2022). Openings between unacquainted persons walking their dog in public space. VALS-ASLA Forum of Applied Linguistics in Switzerland 2022, 18 February 2022 (Virtual).

Hänggi, P. & Schneerson, J. (2021). When strangers meet: On passing-by interactions in public space. 17th International Pragmatics Conference, 27 June–2 July 2021 in Winterthur, Switzerland.

Schneerson, J. (2021). Organizing safety and reconfiguring actions in institutional settings in the Covid-19 era. 17th International Pragmatics Conference, 27 June–2 July 2021 in Winterthur, Switzerland.

Schneerson, J. (2022). The reorganization of openings in a service encounter due to the implementation of hygienic protection measures. 13th International Symposium on (Im)Politeness & 7th iMean Conference, 24-26 June, 2021 (Virtual)