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Christine Howes

Deputy Head of Department

Department of Philosophy, Linguistics, Theory of 91̽
Telephone
+46 31-786 59 11
+46 766-18 59 11
Mail
christine.howes@gu.se
Visiting address
Renströmsgatan 6
41255 Göteborg
Room number
C539
Postal address
Box 200
40530 Göteborg

Assistant Head of Department

Department of Philosophy, Linguistics, Theory of 91̽
Telephone
+46 31-786 59 11
+46 766-18 59 11
Mail
christine.howes@gu.se
Visiting address
Renströmsgatan 6
41255 Göteborg
Postal address
Box 200
40530 Göteborg

Professor

Department of Philosophy, Linguistics, Theory of 91̽
Telephone
+46 31-786 59 11
+46 766-18 59 11
Mail
christine.howes@gu.se
Visiting address
Renströmsgatan 6
41255 Göteborg
Postal address
Box 200
40530 Göteborg

About Christine Howes

I study coordination in dialogue from a range of perspectives, using techniques from psychology, formal and socio-linguistics and artificial intelligence.

My main interest is linguistic interaction, specifically how people use the resources provided by language in conversation to coordinate their understanding. I am particularly interested in phenomena that are often considered to be outside the remit of linguistics, such as repair and compound contributions, which my focused on.

I have used a wide range of techniques and sources to investigate these phenomena, including corpus linguistics, experiments with human participants on real-time text chat dialogue (using the ), machine learning on consultations with mental health patients and their therapists, formal grammars (especially ) and conversation analysis methods on multimodal data.

I am a member of the .

For my full list of publications, and the research projects I am currently working on, please see my website at .