Prof. Dr. Ina Pick

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Research

Main areas of research

• Conversation analysis and discourse analysis
• Media linguistics
• Text linguistics
• Institutional communication
• Linguistic and social behaviour
• Applied conversation research

Within my fields of work, I am currently particularly interested in linguistic-communicative patterns in their medial, institutional, cultural and social contexts. I conduct research on larger linguistic-communicative action units, so-called action complexes, which I reconstruct and compare qualitatively on the basis of authentic communication in various media (conversations, media products, documents).

I research decision-making, counselling and helping, mentoring, mediation and negotiation and interprofessional communication in professional teams and how it changes. Currently, I am particularly interested in decision-making and planning behaviour, which occurs in different contexts and medialities.

In the field of applied dialogue research, I am currently working on questions of success ("good practice") in institutional communication. My work aims to contribute to understanding how such good practice can be methodologically validated and empirically based.

Science and practice
For many years, I have also been contributing my scientific findings to the areas of practice I have analysed. To this end, I offer lectures, seminars and coaching sessions based on my research for people in communication-intensive appointments, including medical professionals, lawyers, legal carers and social workers.

Teaching
In my teaching, I analyse language and communication in their respective social, cultural and media contexts.

My teaching is skills-orientated. I want to enable students to orientate themselves in specialist literature and discourses, to familiarise themselves independently with subject areas, to evaluate specialist texts and to make them useful for their own academic and practical work. It is important to me that students have the opportunity to reflect on and practise their own academic work. In my courses, students also learn to present their own ideas in an argumentative way, to present them in a way that is appropriate for the target group and to discuss them with others.

An essential element of many of my courses is research-based learning, in which students work with oral, written and digital data from communication situations (including institutional ones) that they collect themselves or that I provide to them. By engaging with authentic data, they learn to relate theoretical concepts and models to it in a reflective way and to adapt them where necessary. In this way, they also learn to reflect on normative ideas of language and communication as well as their change and variation.