Dr. Gilles Merminod

Work at ZHAW

Position

SNSF Ambizione Research Fellow

Focus

Discourse analysis, Linguistic Ethnography, Text linguistics, Public Communication, Health Communication, Narrative Practices

Network

Membership of networks

Swiss Association for Applied Linguistics

ORCID digital identifier

ORCID ID: 0000-0002-8447-2800

Publications

Book chapters, peer-reviewed

Matic, I., Kleinberger, U., & Merminod, G. (2026). Gesundheitskommunikation aus linguistischer Sicht : Bestandsaufnahme und Perspektiven in der Schweiz. In K. Bührig, U. Kleinberger, & S. Schlickau (eds.), Sprache und Gesundheit. Dimensionen und Perspektiven inter- und transdisziplinär (pp. 113–131). Universitätsverlag Hildesheim. https://doi.org/10.18442/g-k-1-2

Publications before appointment at the ZHAW

• Merminod, Gilles & Haapanen, Lauri (2025). Hidden behind the text: A linguistic ethnographic study of stance-taking in news production. Language & Communication 101, 15-27. doi: 10.1016/j.langcom.2024.12.014
• Sterie, Anca, Merminod, Gilles, Rubli Truchard, Eve, Jox, Ralf J. & Drew, Paul (2025). Equivocation in patients’ decisions about life-sustaining treatments. Patient Education and Counselling 140, 109265. doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2025.109265
• Merminod, Gilles (2024). La transformation de l’expérience dans le récit médical: un outil pour l’exercice de l’autonomie en santé publique ? In Pahud, Stéphanie & Roelens, Camille (ed.). Perspectives plurielles sur l’autonomie et ses paradoxe (pp. 31-46). Paris: Éditions des Archives contemporaines. doi: 10.17184/eac.8651
• 8. Merminod, Gilles (2023). Preparing for the deployment of ready-made stories in social interaction: reflexivity and narrative practices in professional communication. Multilingua 42 (6). doi: 10.1515/multi-2022-0096
• Merminod, Gilles & Vitorio, Raymund (2023). Investigating sociolinguistic differentiation through reflexive practices: Metapragmatics, regimentation and empowerment. Multilingua 42 (6). doi:10.1515/multi-2023-0113
• Merminod, Gilles & Benaroyo, Lazare (2022). Ethical issues in public health communication: practical suggestions from a qualitative study on campaigns about organ donation in Switzerland. Patient Education and Counselling, 105 (4): 881-886. doi: 10.1016/j.pec.2021.07.012
• Merminod, Gilles, Weber, Orest, Semlali, Imane, Terrier, Ana, Decosterd, Isabelle, Rubli Truchard, Eve & Singy, Pascal (2022), Talking about chronic pain in family settings: a glimpse of older persons' everyday realities. BMC Geriatrics, 22 (1). doi: 10.1186/s12877-022-03058-8
• Merminod, Gilles & Lancien, Mélanie (2021). La production du style journalistique. L'oralisation de l'écrit en tension entre information et dramatisation. Linguistique de l’écrit, 2. doi: 10.19079/lde.2021.s2.7.
• Singy, Pascal & Merminod, Gilles (2021). La communication en milieu médical: un labyrinthe. Lausanne: EPFL Press (Coll. Savoir Suisse).
• Merminod, Gilles (2020). Narrative analysis applied to text production. AILA Review, 33, 103-118. doi: 10.1075/aila.00032.mer
• Merminod, Gilles & Burger, Marcel (2020). Narrative of Vicarious Experience in Broadcast News. A Linguistic Ethnographic Approach to Semiotic Mediations in the Newsroom. Journal of Pragmatics, 155, 240-260. doi: 10.1016/j.pragma.2019.09.001
• Merminod Gilles (2019). Histoire d’une nouvelle. Pratiques narratives en salle de rédaction. Bruxelles: De Boeck (Coll. Culture et communication).

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