Larysa Zavgorodnia

Personal profile

Position at the ZHAW

Research Associate
ILC Institute of Language Competence

www.zhaw.ch/en/linguistics/research/intercultural-studies-and-linguistic-diversity/

Expertise and research interests

Discourse Analysis, Linguistic Pragmatics, multimodality, accessible communication, Sign Language, translating and interpreting, foreign language didactics (DaF/DaZ), political communication

Membership of networks

• International Pragmatics Association (IPrA)
• DIZH Fellowship

Projects

• Linguistic and occupational therapy support for augmentative and alternative communication in young adults / Team member / Project ongoing
• Erforschung und Optimierung von Live-Untertitelungssystemen / Team member / Project completed
• Digital Opportunities Promoting Inclusion in Academia (DigOPIA) / Team member / Project completed
• Proposal and Implementation of a Swiss Centre for Barrier-Free Communication / Team member / Project completed

Publications

• Hohenstein, Christiane; Zavgorodnia, Larysa,

  2023.

  Accessibility and inclusion? : reshaping academic communication using visual-gestural modality [paper].

  In:

  18th International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA), Brussels, Belgium, 9-14 July 2023.

• Hohenstein, Christiane; Zavgorodnia, Larysa,

  2021.

  Inclusive and barrier-free tertiary education for deaf and hearing-impaired persons in Switzerland [paper].

  In:

  23rd International Congress on the Education of the Deaf (ICED): The Power of Connection, Brisbane, Australia, 5-8 July 2021.

  Available from: https://iced2021.com.au/

• Hohenstein, Christiane; Zavgorodnia, Larysa,

  2021.

  The role of sign language in tertiary education [paper].

  In:

  Jekat, Susanne Johanna; Puhl, Steffen; Carrer, Luisa; Lintner, Alexa, eds.,

  Proceedings of the 3rd Swiss conference on barrier-free communication (BfC 2020).

  3rd Swiss Conference on Barrier-free Communication (BfC 2020), Winterthur (online), 29 June - 4 July 2020.

  Winterthur:

  ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences.

  pp. 14-23.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-3001

• Hohenstein, Christiane; Zavgorodnia, Larysa,

  2020.

  Inclusive schooling paving the road to higher education [paper].

  In:

  3rd International Scientific and Expert Conference “The results of (un)supportive environment”, Zagreb, Croatia, 21. November 2019.

• Hohenstein, Christiane; Zavgorodnia, Larysa,

  2018.

  Bildungszugänge mit Gebärdensprache(n) für Gehörlose und Hörbeeinträchtigte [poster].

  In:

  13. Internationale Tagung zur Funktionalen Pragmatik, Winterthur, 4.-6. Oktober 2018.

• Rodríguez Vázquez, Silvia; Bouillon, Pierrette; Strasly, Irene; Hohenstein, Christiane; Zavgorodnia, Larysa; Näf, Manuela,

  2018.

  Roadblocks to inclusive education and career development for people with hearing impairments in french and italian speaking Switzerland [paper].

  In:

  Proceedings of the Second Barrier-Free Communication Conference 2018, Geneva, 9-10 November 2018.

  Second Barrier-Free Communication Conference 2018, Geneva, 9-10 November 2018.

  Genève:

  Université de Genève.

  pp. 89-92.

• Hohenstein, Christiane; Zavgorodnia, Larysa; Näf, Manuela; Rodríguez Vázquez, Silvia; Bouillon, Pierrette; Strasly, Irene,

  2018.

  Status quo of inclusive access to higher education : a focus on deaf and hearing-impaired individuals in german-speaking Switzerland [paper].

  In:

  Proceedings of the Second Barrier-Free Communication Conference 2018, 9-10 November 2018, Geneva, Switzerland.

  Second Barrier-Free Communication Conference 2018, Geneva, 9-10 November 2018.

  Genève:

  Université de Genève.

  pp. 47-50.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-4919

• Hohenstein, Christiane; Zavgorodnia, Larysa; Näf, Manuela; Bouillon, Pierrette; Rodríguez Vázquez, Silvia; Strasly, Irène,

  2018.

  Status quo of inclusive access to higher education : a focus on deaf and hearing-impaired individuals in Switzerland [paper].

  In:

  Proceedings of the Second Barrier-Free Communication Conference 2018, Geneva, 9-10 November 2018.

  Second Barrier-Free Communication Conference 2018, Geneva, 9-10 November 2018.

• Delorme Benites, Alice; Zavgorodnia, Larysa,

  2022.

  La traduction automatique pour les cas d'urgence : un guide pour la communication français-ukrainien-russe.

  Winterthur:

  ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-24800

Other publications

Zavgorodnia, Larysa (2021). Knowledge construction in the visual modality. An empirical investigation of the function of sign language and written interpretation in the university classroom [Poster]. 17th International Pragmatics Conference “Pragmatics of Inclusion”, ZHAW Winterthur, 27 June – 2 July 2021, online.

Hohenstein, Christiane; Zavgorodnia, Larysa, 2020. The Role of Sign Language in Tertiary Education: In: Third Conference on Barrier-Free Communication, ZHAW Winterthur, 29 June - 4 July 2020 (due to Corona situation was held online).

Hohenstein, Christiane; Zavgorodnia, Larysa, 2019. Inclusive schooling paving the road to higher education. In: Third International scientific and expert conference ‘’The results of (un)supportive environment”, Croatia Zagreb, 21st of November 2019.

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