Giovanni Rossi Finnish Centre of Excellence in Research on Intersubjectivity in Interaction Department of Finnish, Finno-Ugrian and Scandinavian Studies Vuorikatu 3A, 00100 Helsinki, Finland +358 (0) 504487765 giovanni.rossi@helsinki.fi http://www.intersubjectivity.fi/en/people/researchers/ Academic position 2014 - present Post-doctoral researcher at the Finnish Centre of Excellence in Research on Intersubjectivity in Interaction Department of Finnish, Finno-Ugrian and Scandinavian Studies Education 2010-2015 PhD in Linguistics (cum laude) at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics & International Max Planck Research School for Language Sciences Supervisors: N. J. Enfield, Kobin H. Kendrick Thesis: The request system in Italian interaction 2009-2010 MA in Linguistics (cum laude) at the Radboud University Nijmegen Supervisors: Tanya Stivers, N. J. Enfield Thesis: Two forms of requesting in Italian conversation 2006-2009 BA in Linguistics (cum laude) at the University of Bologna Supervisor: Fabio Foresti Thesis: Interactive written discourse in SMS. A pragmatic study of texting (in Italian) Additional training 2011 Linguistic Institute of the Linguistic Society of America (Boulder, US) 5/2011-6/2011 Visiting postgraduate student at the University of York (York, UK) 2010 Netherlands National Graduate School of Linguistics (Nijmegen, The Netherlands) 9/2008-1/2009 Visiting undergraduate student at Bangor University (Bangor, UK) Professional activities 2015 - present Project coordinator: Prosody and pragmatic function in next-turn repetitions across five languages, at the CV Giovanni Rossi 1
2015 - present Project coordinator: Parallel European corpus of informal interaction, at the 2013-2015 Project coordinator (with Simeon Floyd and N. J. Enfield): Getting others to do things: a pragmatic typology of recruitments, at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics since 2012 Ad hoc reviewer: Research on Language and Social Interaction, Journal of Pragmatics, Language in Society Meetings organised 2015 Organiser of workshop: Prosody and action formation, at the 2012 Co-organiser of workshop: Non-academic post-phd career options, at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics Awards 2013 Conference travel grant (to Santa Barbara, US) from the Internationalisation Fund, Radboud University Nijmegen ( 750) 2011 Summer school travel grant (to Boulder, US) from the Internationalisation Fund, Radboud University Nijmegen ( 1,200) Teaching Spring 2016 Lead lecturer in the postgraduate course: Prosody and action formation, at the 2014 Guest lecturer in the postgraduate course: Language universals and diversity, at the Radboud University Nijmegen Fieldwork 2009-2015 on Italian (3,5 months overall) in Northern Italy, involving the collection of video recordings of informal interaction (75 hrs) and ethnographic interviews 2011 on English (1,5 months) in York, Birmingham and Sheffield (UK), involving the collection of video recordings of informal interaction (25 hrs) Publications Floyd, S., Rossi, G., & Enfield, N. J. (Eds.) (in prep). Getting others to do things: a pragmatic typology of recruitments. Berlin: Language Science Press. Rossi, G., & Zinken, J. (accepted). Grammar and social agency: The pragmatics of impersonal deontic statements. Language. CV Giovanni Rossi 2
Rossi, G. (frth). Secondary and deviant uses of the imperative for requesting in Italian. In M.-L. Sorjonen, L. Raevaara, & E. Couper-Kuhlen (Eds.), Imperative turns-at-talk: the design of conversational directives. John Benjamins. Zinken, J. & Rossi, G. (in press). Commentary on Kendrick and Drew: Recruitment. Research on Language and Social Interaction. Rossi, G. and Zinken, J. (in press). Social agency and grammar. In N. J. Enfield & P. Kockelman (Eds.), Distributed agency: the sharing of intention, cause, and accountability. Oxford University Press. Dingemanse, M., Roberts, S. G., Baranova, J., Blythe, J., Drew, P., Floyd, S., Gisladottir, R. S., Kendrick, K. H., Levinson, S. C., Manrique, E., Rossi, G., & Enfield, N. J. (2015). Universal Principles in the Repair of Communication Problems. PLoS ONE 10(9), e0136100. Rossi, G. (2015). The request system in Italian interaction. Ph.D. dissertation, Radboud University Nijmegen. Rossi, G. (2015). Responding to pre-requests: The organisation of hai x do you have x sequences in Italian. Journal of Pragmatics, 82, 5-22. Rossi, G. (2015). Other-initiated repair in Italian. Open Linguistics 1, 256-282. Floyd, S., Manrique, E., Rossi, G., & Torreira, F. (2014). Timing of visual bodily behavior in repair sequences: Evidence from three languages. Discourse Processes, 10.1080/0163853X.2014.992680. San Roque, L., Kendrick, K., Norcliffe, E., Brown, P., Defina, R., Dingemanse, M., Dirksmeyer, T., Enfield, N. J., Floyd, S., Hammond, J., Rossi, G., Tufvesson, S., Van Putten, S., & Majid, A. (2014). Vision verbs dominate in conversation across cultures, but the ranking of non-visual verbs varies. Cognitive Linguistics, 26(1), 31-60. Rossi, G. (2014). When do people not use language to make requests? In P. Drew & E. Couper- Kuhlen (Eds.), Requesting in Social Interaction (pp. 303-334). John Benjamins. Enfield, N. J., Dingemanse, M., Baranova, J., Blythe, J., Brown, P., Dirksmeyer, T., Drew, P., Floyd, S., Gipper, S., Gisladottir, R. S., Hoymann, G., Kendrick, K., Levinson, S. C., Magyari, L., Manrique, E., Rossi, G., San Roque, L., & Torreira, F. (2013). Huh? What? A first survey in 21 languages. In M. Hayashi, G. Raymond, & J. Sidnell (Eds.), Conversational repair and human understanding (pp. 343-380). Cambridge University Press. Rossi, G. (2012). Bilateral and unilateral requests: The use of imperatives and Mi X? interrogatives in Italian. Discourse Processes, 49(5), 426-458. Rossi, G. (2010). Interactive written discourse: Pragmatic aspects of SMS communication. In G. Garzone, P. Catenaccio, & C. Degano (Eds.), Diachronic perspectives on genres in specialized communication. Conference Proceedings (pp. 135-138). Milan: CUEM. Rossi, G. (2009). Il discorso scritto interattivo degli SMS: uno studio pragmatico del "messaggiare" [Interactive written discourse in SMS: a pragmatic study of "texting"]. Rivista Italiana di dialettologia, 33, 143-193. CV Giovanni Rossi 3
Selected presentations Rossi, G., Floyd, S., Baranova, J., Blythe, J., Dingemanse, M., Kendrick, K., & Zinken, J., & Enfield, N. J. (2015). Recruitments across languages: A systematic comparison. Talk presented at the 14th International Pragmatics Conference [IPrA 2015]. University of Antwerp, Belgium. Floyd, S., Rossi, G., Enfield, N. J., Baranova, J., Blythe, J., Dingemanse, M., Kendrick, K., & Zinken, J. (2014). Recruitments across languages: A systematic comparison. Talk presented at the 4th International Conference on Conversation Analysis [ICCA 2014]. University of California at Los Angeles, CA. Rossi, G. (2014). The request system in Italian interaction. Talk presented at the 4th International Conference on Conversation Analysis [ICCA 2014]. University of California at Los Angeles, CA. Floyd, S., Rossi, G., Enfield, N. J., Baranova, J., Blythe, J., Dingemanse, M., Kendrick, K., & Zinken, J. (2014). Everyday requesting across eight languages. Invited talk presented at the Center for Language, Interaction, and Culture (CLIC) workshop 'About Face'. University of California at Los Angeles, CA. Rossi, G. (2014). Visible behaviour in the formation of indirect requests. Invited talk presented at the 4th Nijmegen Gesture Centre (NGC) Workshop: Communicative intention in gesture and action. Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Dingemanse, M., Floyd, S., & Rossi, G. (2013). Place reference in story launchings: a cross-linguistic study. Talk presented at the Workshop on Place, Landscape, and Language. Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Rossi, G. (2013). Indirect requests in everyday interaction. Talk presented at the 19th Annual Conference on Language, Interaction, and Social Organization [LISO 2013]. University of California at Santa Barbara, CA. Rossi, G. (2012). Why do people omit the vocal component of requests? Talk presented at the 5th Congress of the International Society for Gesture Studies [ISGS V]. Lund University, Lund, Sweden. Rossi, G. (2012). Hai X? 'Do you have X?' in the Italian request system. Talk presented at the 5th Language, Culture & Mind conference [LCM V]. Universidade Católica Portuguesa, Lisbon, Portugal. Rossi, G., & Zinken, J. (2012). 'It is necessary to X' in Italian and Polish: Recruitment or Account? Talk presented at the conference: Discourse - Communication Conversation [DCC]. Loughborough University, UK. Rossi, G. (2011). Bilateral and unilateral requests: The use of imperatives and Mi X? interrogatives in Italian. Talk presented at the 12th International Pragmatics Conference [IPrA 2011]. University of Manchester, UK. Rossi, G. (2011). 'We' proposals in Italian. Grammar and intonation in action formation. Talk presented at the Centre for Advanced Studies in Language and Communication (CASLC). University of York, UK. CV Giovanni Rossi 4
Referees Prof. Dr. Marja-Leena Sorjonen Vuorikatu 3A, 00100 Helsinki, Finland email: marja-leena.sorjonen@helsinki.fi phone: +358 50 31 85 264 Prof. Dr. Nick Enfield The University of Sydney John Woolley Building, NSW 2006 Sidney, Australia email: nick.enfield@sydney.edu.au phone: +61 2 9351 2349 Prof. Dr. Paul Drew Loughborough University LE11 3TU Loughborough, UK email: p.drew@lboro.ac.uk phone: + 44 (0) 1509 223368 Prof. Dr. Stephen Levinson Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics Wundtlaan 1, 6525 XD Nijmegen, The Netherlands email: stephen.levinson@mpi.nl phone: +31 (0) 24 3521277 Last updated: 5 January 2016 CV Giovanni Rossi 5