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Research

Dinner Time Project

starting September 2024

The Dinner Time Project aims to investigate communicational patterns and changes over time by analyzing dinner time conversations of real conversation of care couples, that is the person living with dementia and their care partner.  The project addresses the complex challenge posed by the intersection of multilingualism and neurodegenerative diseases, such as dementia, in our aging society. The project will help us to better understand and meet the evolving communication needs of all affected. My goal is to create a longitudinal, multilingual Dinner Time Corpus, which I believe is crucial for achieving this aim. This study highlights the importance of social interaction and person-centered communication in dementia care, monolingual as well as multilingual discourse.

What?              -  Regular, monthly recordings during dinner time conversations in any language

Who?               - anybody can participate, any language(s), any stage of dementia

How?               - data donation of self-recordings

Interested in getting involved? Reach out! Carolin.schneider@uni-due.de

Intersections in dementia discourse – International, interdisciplinary roundtable

2020 – ongoing

INTERSECTIONS is a quarterly digital roundtable that fosters interdisciplinary dialogue among researchers focusing on dementia. It provides a platform to share findings, discuss overlaps and contradictions, gain new perspectives, and ask interdisciplinary questions, with the goal of enhancing research in the field. Anyone supporting the idea of interdisciplinary dialogue and interested in sharing research findings and developments is welcome to participate. Learn more

Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Carolin Schneider is a post-doctoral researcher and lecturer in the field of pragmatics at the Chair of Prof. Dr. Birte Bös at the Department of Anglophone Studies at the University of Duisburg-Essen. Her research interests are digital health communication, in particular pertaining to the dementias.

Her current project "HealthCorPra" investigates a variety of online health discourses from a corpus pragmatic perspective.

Within her PhD project, known as the "Bili-AD" project, Carolin delved into the intricate world of bilingual individuals living with dementia. Her research was dedicated to understanding how these bilingual individuals, despite the challenges posed by dementia, tapped into their linguistic abilities in conversations with their primary caregivers. The depth and significance of her work were underscored by the recognition it received, with her thesis achieving the distinction of 'summa cum laude' and the reception of the Dissertation Award (Sparkassenpreis) in 2023.

Before rejoining UDE, Carolin was a lecturer in English Linguistics at the Department of Language, Literature and Communication at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. She gave courses in the BA English Culture and Language, the Ma Intercultural Communication, MA Multilingualism and Language Acquisition, and MA English Education and further supervised numerous undergraduate and graduate thesis as well as internships.

From 2018-2021 Carolin was part of Prof. Dr. Isabelle Buchstaller's (University Duisburg-Essen) Sociolab team and involved in the interdisciplinary project titled "Memory and Ideology in the Linguistic Landscape." Apart from archival work and ethnographic interviews, she was responsible for the analysis of the news discourses spanning 110 years through the discourse historic approach.

Carolin studied at the University of Duisburg-Essen, from which she graduated with First State Examinations in English, Spanish and German (Teaching degree for secondary schools) in 2017. She also obtained a certificate in German as Second Language Studies (DaZ, Interkulturelle Pädagogik).

Research Interests

• Corpus Pragmatics
• (Digital) Health Communication
• On- and offline Alzheimer’s Discourses
• Bilingualism and Code-Switching
• Language and Identity in online and offline contexts
• (Critical) Discourse Analysis

Conferences and Symposia

ORGANIZATION

2023 Workshop Organizer (with Michael Wentker and Birte Bös)
“Emotions in Digital Discourses – Textual and Multimodal Perspectives”,
ADDA4, University of Klagenfurt 12-14 October 2023.

2022 Workshop Organizer (with Sonja Kleinke, Birte Bös, and Monika Preyer),                      
“Public Health Communication: Dementia in Social Media Discourse and Digital Interaction”,
Digital Research and Human Sciences – Diversity of methods and materials, University of
Jyväskyla 1-3 December 2022.

2020 Panel Organizer (with Birte Bös),                                                                                 
“Dimensions of Dementia in Digital Discourse”,
2nd International Conference on Internet Pragmatics, University of Helsinki 22-24 October 2020.

CONFERENCE CONTRIBUTIONS

Schneider, C. (2024, September 28-30, accepted) Metadiscursive Framing of Death – Negotiating Taboo in a Community of Practice on Reddit, [Paper Presentation] St. Petersburg, USA.

Schneider, C. & Llorente-Belda, N. (2024, June 26-29) Exploring Discourse Markers in Bilingual Dementia Contexts: A corpus-based approach. [Paper Presentation]. PALA, Sheffield, UK.

Schneider, C. (2024, May 30 – June 1). Navigating Bilingual Conversations in Dementia: Exploring the Intersection of Code- Choice, Co-construction, and Repetition Across Two Languages. [Paper Presentation]. InPra, Pisa, Italy.

Schneider, C. & Bös, B. (2024, April 24) “I'm an RN and looked up the medications” – A corpus pragmatic approach to negotiating lay and professional expertise in a digital dementia support group. [Paper Presentation]. Expert and Lay Voices in Health Communication, Jagiellonian, Online.

Llorente-Belda, N. & Schneider, C. (2024, April 9-12) Navigating the Complexities of Self-referentiality and Deictic Expressions in Dementia: Exploring Bilingual Contexts, [Paper Presentation]. CLARe6, Tübingen, Germany.

Bös, B. & Schneider, C. (2023). ‘Staring down the devil‘ – Metaphorical negotiations of emotional experiences in a digital Community of Practice of persons living with dementia. [Paper Presentation]. ADDA4, Klagenfurt, Austria.

Schneider, C. (2023). Contextualized Laughter and Joint Construction of Humor in Dementia Interaction: A Discourse-analytic Case Study. IPra, Brussels, Belgium.

Schneider, C. & Bös, B. (2022, December 1-3). ‘You have nothing to fear because we love you’ – Expressing emotions in a digital Community of Practice of persons living with dementia. DRDHUM, Jyväskylä, Finnland.

Schneider, C. & Qalaj, B. (2022, March 9-11). ’¿Cómo te sientes? – With my butt!’ Code-choice related humor in bilingual speakers living with dementia of the Alzheimer’s type [Paper Presentation]. CLARe5, Anchorage, USA.

Bös, B. & Schneider, C. (2021, November 18-19). A diachronic perspective on referencing practices in dementia-related academic discourse [Paper Presentation]. Contested Language, Digital Symposium by the North American Network of Aging Studies (NANAS), online.

Schneider, C. (2021, August 15-20). ‘I have to be sincere, my mind is failing at times’ – Expressing memory loss in the face of Alzheimer’s Dementia [Paper Presentation], Panel: Experiencing illness and disease. Putting perceptions and emotions into language, AILA, Groningen, the Netherlands.

Schneider, C. & Bös, B. (2021, June 27- July 2). Code accommodation as a measure of inclusion for bilingual people living with DAT: A case study [Paper Presentation]. Panel: Taking actions to enhance inclusivity of persons with dementia: Pragmatics of active social inclusion, IPrA, Winterthur, Switzerland.

Schneider, C. (2021, May 15). ’Ah, ¡pues!’ – Discursive functions of interjections and interjective hesitators in bilingual Alzheimer’s discourse [Paper Presentation]. Southeastern Conference on Linguistics XXXVIII, Houston, USA.

Schneider, C. (2020, November 5-6). From care partner to dishwasher: A critical discourse analysis of online news representation concerning care for people living with Alzheimer’s in the face of Covid-19 [Paper Presentation]. Aging and Ageism in the Covid-19 Pandemic, Digital Symposium by the North American Network of Aging Studies (NANAS), online.

Bös, B. & Schneider C. (2020, October 22-24). ’Typing with dementia’ – Online Self-positioning of People Living with Alzheimer’s Disease [Paper Presentation]. Panel: Dimensions of Dementia in Digital Discourse, 2nd International Conference on Internet Pragmatics, Helsinki, Finland.

Bös, B. & Schneider C. (2019, September 22-25). ’We are all in this together’ – Balancing virtual proximity and distance in online caregiver discussions [Paper Presentation]. Annual conference of the German Association for the Study of English, Leipzig, Germany.

Schneider, C. (2019, September 19-21). ’I love your hispanic accent’ - Metalinguistic approaches to biculturalism and language variation in memes on Instagram [Paper Presentation]. AMLI, Essen, Germany.

Schneider, C. (2019, September 16-18). ‘When you are my age… what age is that?’ – Reconstruction of facts in two languages in persons living with Alzheimer’s dementia [Paper Presentation]. Poznań Linguistic Meeting, Poznań, Poland.

Schneider, C. (2019, September 16-18). “Yeah, yeah! ¡Sí, Sí!” - Competing English and Spanish interjections in bilingual people living with Alzheimer’s dementia, [Paper Presentation]. Poznań Linguistic Meeting, Poznań, Poland.

Schneider, C. (2019, May 25-28). #hispanicsbelike – Dynamics of code-switching in bilingual memes and reactions on Instagram [Paper Presentation]. ADDA2, Turku, Finland.

Schneider, C. & Bös, B. (2019, April 4). ’We are not doctors’– Identity work among caregivers in a virtual Community of Practice on Facebook [Poster Presentation]. Inaugural LabFest, Essen,Germany.

Schneider, C. & Wentker, M. (2019, March 25-27). 'Things our Latina moms say' – The Dynamics of Code-Switching and Identity Construction in Discursive Practices on YouTube [Paper Presentation]. 2nd International Conference on Bilingualism, Msida, Malta.

Bös, B. & Schneider, C. (2019, February 27 – March 1). Metapragmatic reflections on verbal interactions with Alzheimer’s Dementia patients - A social media study [Paper Presentation] CLARe4, Helsinki, Finland.

INVITED TALKS

Schneider, C. (2024, March 25). English, Spanish, and everything in between: A functional perspective on code-switching in bilingual conversations with Floridians living with dementia, Department of Modern Languages, Tampa, USA.

Schneider, C. & Bös, B. (2023, June 27). Bilingualism and Dementia: The Language Repertoire from a Pragmatic Perspective. Guest lecture. Cologne, Germany.

Schneider, C. (2021, September 17). Ein kritischer Blick auf die mediale Repräsentation der Isolation von Menschen mit Alzheimer während der Coronapandemie 2020 in Florida, Panel: Mediale Altersbilder und -diskurse während der Corona-Pandemie, Gemeinsame Fachtagung der Sektion III & IV der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Gerontologie und Geriatrie, Siegen, Germany.

Schneider, C. (2019, October 14).’Bueno, uhm’ – Interjections as a Code-switching Practice among People living with Alzheimer’s Dementia, Werkgroep over Taal, Brussels, Belgium.

Schneider, C. (2019, June 14). Intentional vs. Involuntary: Code choice related humor in bilingual persons living with Alzheimer’s Dementia. Kolloquium zur Mehrsprachigkeitsforschung, Dortmund, Germany.

Teaching

Undergraduate

• Introduction to Linguistics |2019, 2020, 2021, 2023, 2024
• Approaches to Morphology and Syntax | 2020
• Introduction to Pragmatics | 2023
• Academic Speaking | 2021, 2022
• Language Development across the Lifespan | 2022
• Pragmatics in Neurodegenerative Disorders | 2023
• Clinical Pragmatics: How language changes when the brain is changing | 2021
• Beyond Spanglish - Bilingualism in the US | 2020
• Same Same but Different – British and American English Varieties | 2018, 2019            

Graduate

• Intercultural Dementia Discourses | 2024 
• Pragmatics in (online) Health Communication | 2024 
• Intercultural Consultancy | 2021, 2023                                                            
• Language Diagnostics | 2023
• English Culture and Identity | 2021, 2022
• As words fail?! ­­– Linguistic Perspectives on Alzheimer's Dementia | 2020                                                                                         

Guest Lectures

Schneider, C. & Bös, B. (2023, June 27). Bilingualism and Dementia: The Language Repertoire from a Pragmatic Perspective. Guest lecture. Cologne, Germany.

Other

• Distinguished Guest, University of Iowa, International Writers' Program, Summer 2019
• Invited Workshop: Methods in Linguistic Research Colloquium – Introduction to MaxQDA, 2019 & 2020

Awards & Recognitions

2024, UDE Seed Funding

2024, Franklin Research Grant, American Philosphical Society

2023, Wissenschaftspreis der Sparkasse Essen

2020, Best Emerging Scholar Paper on “Ageism in the Pandemic”, North American Network on Aging Studies

Previous Positions

2021-2023 Lecturer in English Linguistics, Utrecht University

2018-2021 Research assistant and part-time lecturer in English Linguistics, University of Duisburg-Essen

2017-2018 Stand-in Teacher at Hans-Sachs Berufskolleg (Vocational College)

2016-2017 Stand-in Teacher at GGS Breitestraße (Elementary School)