Dr. Iris Hübscher
Dr. Iris Hübscher
ZHAW
Angewandte Linguistik
Institute of Language Competence
Theaterstrasse 17
8400 Winterthur
Arbeit an der ZHAW
Tätigkeit
Lehrtätigkeit
Berufserfahrung
- Lecturer and research associate
Dept. L/ ZHAW
08 / 2021 - heute - Lecturer
Dept. L/ ZHAW
08 / 2020 - 07 / 2021 - Collaborating professor in the M.A. in Learning Difficulties and Language Disorders
Department of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Spain)
09 / 2020 - 05 / 2021 - Postdoctoral researcher
URPP Language and Space / University of Zurich
09 / 2018 - 05 / 2021 - Pre-doctoral researcher in Group of Prosodic and Gestural Studies
Department of Translation and Language Sciences, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Spain)
02 / 2014 - 07 / 2018 - Research assistant for English language test development
Zurich University of Applied Sciences, aviation (Switzerland)
09 / 2013 - 11 / 2013 - English primary school teacher
Centro Bilingüe Waldorf (Costa Rica)
03 / 2013 - 07 / 2013 - English primary school teacher
Isidora Barriga/ Puerto Lopez (Ecuador)
04 / 2011 - 05 / 2011 - English and German as a foreign/ second language teacher
Sprachschule Alstadt
01 / 2009 - 01 / 2011
Aus- und Weiterbildung
Weiterbildung
- Teaching Skills
University of Zurich
07 / 2020 - Flipped Classroom Training
Göthe Institut Chicago
11 / 2015 - Cambridge CELTA
Concorde International
12 / 2012
Netzwerk
ORCID digital identifier
Social Media
Projekte
Publikationen
Beiträge in wissenschaftlicher Zeitschrift, peer-reviewed
- Llopis Cardona, A., Hübscher, I. and Cabedo Nebot, A. (2024) 'A multimodal approach to Catalan pragmatic markers : an exploratory study', Languages, 9(4), p. 125. doi: 10.3390/languages9040125.
- Brown, L. et al. (2023) 'Gestures are modulated by social context : a study of multimodal politeness across two cultures', Gesture, 21(2-3), pp. 167–200. doi: 10.1075/gest.20034.bro.
- Hübscher, I. et al. (2022) 'Multimodal mitigation : how facial and body cues index politeness in Catalan requests', Journal of Politeness Research, 19(1), pp. 1–29. doi: 10.1515/pr-2020-0033.
- Pronina, M. et al. (2021) 'Interactional training interventions boost children's expressive pragmatic abilities : evidence from a novel multidimensional testing approach', Cognitive Development, 57(101003). doi: 10.1016/j.cogdev.2020.101003.
- Castillo, E. et al. (2021) 'Narrative performance and sociopragmatic abilities in preschool children are linked to multimodal imitation skills', Journal of Child Language, 50(1), pp. 52–77. doi: 10.1017/S0305000921000404.
- Pronina, M. et al. (2021) 'Bridging the gap between prosody and pragmatics : the acquisition of pragmatic prosody in the preschool years and its relation with Theory of Mind', Frontiers in Psychology, 12(662124). doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.662124.
- Winter, B. et al. (2021) 'Rethinking the frequency code : a meta-analytic review of the role of acoustic body size in communicative phenomena', Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 376(1840), p. 20200400. doi: 10.1098/rstb.2020.0400.
Bücher, peer-reviewed
Jucker, A. H., Hübscher, I. and Brown, L. (eds) (2023) Multimodal im/politeness : signed, spoken, written. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. doi: 10.1075/pbns.333.
Buchbeiträge, peer-reviewed
- Hohenstein, C., Hübscher, I. and Zavgorodnia, L. (2025) 'Auditive Barrieren und Unterstützte Kommunikation in inklusiven Bildungsmedien', in Ott, C. and Bock, B. M. (eds) Verständlichkeit – Zugänglichkeit – Barrierefreiheit : sprachbezogene Rezeptionsherausforderungen und Inklusionspotenziale von Bildungsmedien. Berlin: Peter Lang, pp. 217–238. doi: 10.21256/zhaw-36043.
- Gnach, A., Hübscher, I. and Perrin, D. (2024) 'Die Essenz erzählen : Fallstudien nutzbar machen', in ZHAW Angewandte Linguistik (ed.) Angewandte Linguistik für Sprachberufe. 3. Auflage. Berlin: De Gruyter, pp. 187–193. doi: 10.1515/9783110786767-009.
- Hübscher, I. (2024) 'Mit Bedacht verallgemeinern : Fallstudien auswerten', in ZHAW Angewandte Linguistik (ed.) Angewandte Linguistik für Sprachberufe. 3. Auflage. Berlin: De Gruyter, pp. 179–186. doi: 10.1515/9783110786767-009.
- Ibrahim, O. and Hübscher, I. (2023) 'Within-speaker accommodation behavior in apology-centered interactions : the role of socio-pragmatic factors', in Jucker, A. H., Hübscher, I., and Brown, L. (eds) Multimodal im/politeness : signed, spoken, written. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 185–211. doi: 10.1075/pbns.333.07ibr.
- Brown, L. et al. (2023) 'Indexing social distance through bodily visual practices in two languages', in Jucker, A. H., Hübscher, I., and Brown, L. (eds) Multimodal im/politeness : signed, spoken, written. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 131–161. doi: 10.1075/pbns.333.05bro.
- Brown, L., Hübscher, I. and Jucker, A. H. (2023) 'Multimodal im/politeness : introduction', in Jucker, A. H., Hübscher, I., and Brown, L. (eds) Multimodal im/politeness : signed, spoken, written. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, pp. 1–23. doi: 10.1075/pbns.333.01bro.
- Brown, L. and Hübscher, I. (2022) 'Distance and closeness : the im/politeness of space in communication', in Jucker, A. H. and Hausendorf, H. (eds) Pragmatics of Space. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton, pp. 399–428. doi: 10.1515/9783110693713-013.
Schriftliche Konferenzbeiträge, peer-reviewed
- Hübscher, I. et al. (2023) 'The role of discourse markers, backchannels and pauses on discourse structure in Alternative and Augmented Communication (AAC)', in 18th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA), Brussels, Belgium, 9-14 July 2023.
- Pronina, M. et al. (2022) 'Pragmatic prosody development from 3 to 8 years of age : a cross-sectional study in Catalan', in Speech Prosody, Lisbon, Portugal, 23-26 May 2022.
- Spiess, M. et al. (2022) 'Empowering young augmentative and alternative communication-users in their transition into adulthood', in RehabWeek, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 25-29 July 2022.
Mündliche Konferenzbeiträge und Abstracts
Hübscher, I. et al. (2022) 'Gemeinsam junge Menschen ermächtigen : wie Linguistik und Ergotherapie zusammenspannen', in 7. UK Symposium: 'Mitten im Leben', FHNW Olten, Schweiz, 31. August 2022.