Philipp Hänggi
Lecturer
Assistant / Postdoc
Philosophisch-Historische Fakultät
Departement Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften
Fachbereich Französische Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft

Lecturer

Institut für Französische Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft
Maiengasse 51
4056 Basel
Schweiz

p.haenggi@unibas.ch


Philosophisch-Historische Fakultät
Departement Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaften
Professur Mondada

Assistant / Postdoc

Maiengasse 51
4056 Basel
Schweiz

Tel. +41 61 207 12 62
p.haenggi@unibas.ch

Hi! I am a researcher of human interaction, currently working in the Department of Linguistics and Literature at the University of Basel, where I am part of the SNSF-funded project The first five words: Multilingual cities in Switzerland and Belgium and the grammar of language choice in public space directed by Lorenza Mondada (U. Basel) and Elwys De Stefani (KU Leuven/U. Heidelberg). My research centers on the use of language and the body in everyday life, focusing on naturally-occurring social interaction. I bring together methods from Ethnomethodology, Conversation Analysis (EMCA), and Interactional Linguistics to empirically investigate multilingualism in interaction – with a particular focus on how previously unacquainted people spontaneously engage in interaction in public space. Based on video-recordings collected across a range of multilingual public places in French-, German-, and Italian-speaking Switzerland, my dissertation work contributes to the study of language contact, multilingualism, and code-switching, particularly research into language choice and language negotiation in locally situated interaction; the sequential, embodied, and categorial organization of face-to-face openings; interaction in public places; and naturalistic studies of first-time encounters between “strangers.”

Publications

2023    P. Hänggi.Multilingual chance encounters between unacquainted people in public space(doctoral dissertation). University of Basel, Switzerland / KU Leuven, Belgium.

2023      P. Hänggi, & J. Schneerson. Opening. In A. Gubina, E. Hoey & C. W. Raymond (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Terminology for Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics. International Society for Conversation Analysis (ISCA).

2023     Hänggi, P., & Schneerson, J. Pre-opening. In A. Gubina, E. Hoey & C. W. Raymond (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Terminology for Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics. International Society for Conversation Analysis (ISCA).

2023     Schneerson, J., & Hänngi, P. Pre-beginning. In A. Gubina, E. Hoey & C. W. Raymond (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Terminology for Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics. International Society for Conversation Analysis (ISCA).

2022     Hänggi, P. Language choice and the multilingual soundscape: Overhearing as a resource for recipient-design in impromptu first-time encounters. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 55(4), 299–325. doi: 10.1080/08351813.2022.2128003

2022     D’Antoni, F., Debois, T., De Stefani, E., Hänggi, P., Mondada, L., Schneerson, J., & Tekin, B. S. Encounters in public places: The establishment of interactional space in face-to-face openings. In A. H. Jucker & H. Hausendorf (Eds.), Pragmatics of Space (pp. 281–315). De Gruyter Mouton. doi: 10.1515/9783110693713-010

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

2020     Mondada, L., Bänninger, J., Bouaouina, S. A., Camus, L., Gauthier, G., Hänggi, P., Koda, M., Svensson, H., Tekin, B. S. Human sociality in the times of the Covid-19 pandemic: A systematic examination of change in greetings. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 24(4), 441–468. doi: 10.1111/josl.12433

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

2017     Hänggi, P., & Diederich, C. Accommodating language: A comparative investigation of the use of euphemisms for death and dying in obituaries in English and in German. In A. Capone & V. Parvaresh (Eds.), The Pragmeme of accommodation: The case of interaction around the event of death (pp. 277–299). Cham, Switzerland: Springer.

Research topics:

-     Conversation Analysis

-     Multimodality

-     Ethnomethodology

-     Multilingual interaction

-     Embodiment