Dr J.G. Geenen (Jarret)

My primary interests are the pragmatics of social interaction, non-verbal communication and multimodal interaction. More specifically, my work aims to better understand the role of cultural tools in social interaction in an effort to determine how material and technological mediation affect social communicative processes, collaboration and goal-oriented multiparty activity. While prioritizing naturaly occurring social interactive data and employing integrative multimodal analytical frameworks, overarching empirical goals are to better understanding multimodal ensembles in communicative action. Taking communicative action as analytically primary I explore cross-modal relationships and the pragmatic consequences of these relationships. Better understanding the interrelationships between communicative modes in both production and interpretation of communicative action is paramount to fully understand processes like L1 pragmatic development, multi-party collaboration and technologically mediated forms of social interaction.