Dr. Jarret Geenen

Biography

Jarret Geenen is an Assistant Professor at Radboud University specializing in the Centre for Language Studies. His primary research interests include pragmatics, social interaction, non-verbal communication, and multimodal interaction. Geenen's work aims to understand the role of cultural tools in social interaction and the influence of material and technological mediation on social communicative processes, particularly in collaborative, goal-oriented multiparty activities. By prioritizing naturally occurring social interactive data and employing integrative multimodal analytical frameworks, his overarching empirical goals revolve around understanding multimodal ensembles in communicative action. Geenen analytically explores the relationships between communicative modes and their pragmatic consequences, and emphasizes the importance of understanding these interrelationships to fully grasp processes like first language pragmatic development and technology-mediated forms of social interaction.

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