Kerstin Fischer

List of John Benjamins publications for which Kerstin Fischer plays a role.

Journals

Titles

What Influences Influence? How the Communicative Situation Influences Persuasion

Edited by Kerstin Fischer and Jaap Ham

Special issue of Interaction Studies 22:3 (2021) v, 225 pp.
Subjects Artificial Intelligence | Cognition and language | Evolution of language | Interaction Studies
Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Theoretical linguistics

On the Interaction of Constructions with Register and Genre

Edited by Kerstin Fischer and Kiki Nikiforidou

Special issue of Constructions and Frames 7:2 (2015) v, 243 pp.
Subjects Cognition and language | Functional linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

Articles

Fischer, Kerstin 2023 Chapter 7. Risk and responsibility in human-robot interaction: An interactional approachRisk Discourse and Responsibility, Ädel, Annelie and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 172–189 | Chapter
In this chapter, I argue that interaction researchers have a large toolbox available to analyze the quality of current human-robot interactions, allowing us to identify possible risks concerning the introduction of social robots into our societies. I illustrate how interactional analyses can… read more
Fischer, Kerstin and Jaap Ham 2021 What influences influence? How the communicative situation influences persuasionWhat Influences Influence? How the Communicative Situation Influences Persuasion, Fischer, Kerstin and Jaap Ham (eds.), pp. 291–302 | Introduction
This special issue addresses how aspects of the communicative situation influence how influential persuasive utterances (or other strategies of influence) are in their contexts of use. Specifically, we study the effects of interactional, speaker-, addressee- and channel-related factors and of… read more
Fischer, Kerstin, Lars Christian Jensen and Nadine Zitzmann 2021 In the same boat: The influence of sharing the situational context on a speaker’s (a robot’s) persuasivenessWhat Influences Influence? How the Communicative Situation Influences Persuasion, Fischer, Kerstin and Jaap Ham (eds.), pp. 488–515 | Article
In this paper, we analyze what effects indicators of a shared situation have on a speaker’s persuasiveness by investigating how a robot’s advice is received when it indicates that it is sharing the situational context with its user. In our experiment, 80 participants interacted with a robot that… read more
Fischer, Kerstin, Johanna Seibt, Raffaele Rodogno, Majken Kirkegård Rasmussen, Astrid Weiss, Leon Bodenhagen, William Kristian Juel and Norbert Krüger 2020 Integrative Social Robotics Hands-onEnvisioning Social Robotics: Current challenges and new interdisciplinary methodologies, Hannibal, Glenda and Astrid Weiss (eds.), pp. 145–185 | Article
In this paper, we discuss the development of robot use cases in an elderly care facility in the context of exploring the method of Integrative Social Robotics (ISR) when used on top of a user-centered design approach. Integrative Social Robotics is a new proposal for how to generate responsible,… read more
Niebuhr, Oliver, Maria Alm, Nathalie Schümchen and Kerstin Fischer 2017 Comparing visualization techniques for learning second language prosody: First resultsSegmental, prosodic and fluency features in phonetic learner corpora, Trouvain, Jürgen, Frank Zimmerer, Bernd Möbius, Mária Gósy and Anne Bonneau (eds.), pp. 250–277 | Article
We tested the usability of prosody visualization techniques for second language (L2) learners. Eighteen Danish learners realized target sentences in German based on different visualization techniques. The sentence realizations were annotated by means of the phonological Kiel Intonation Model and… read more
Fischer, Kerstin 2015 Situation in grammar or in frames? Evidence from the so-called baby talk registerOn the Interaction of Constructions with Register and Genre, Fischer, Kerstin and Kiki Nikiforidou (eds.), pp. 258–288 | Article
This paper addresses the conditions under which knowledge of situation-specific language use should be part of a construction grammatical representation and under which it should, rather, be part of a frame semantic representation. Using child-directed speech as an example, which has been suggested… read more
Nikiforidou, Kiki and Kerstin Fischer 2015 On the interaction of constructions with register and genreOn the Interaction of Constructions with Register and Genre, Fischer, Kerstin and Kiki Nikiforidou (eds.), pp. 137–147 | Article
Fischer, Kerstin 2014 People do not interact with robots like they do with dogsInteraction Studies 15:2, pp. 201–204 | Article
Fischer, Kerstin 2013 Beyond the sentence: Constructions, frames and spoken interactionAdvances in Frame Semantics, Fried, Mirjam and Kiki Nikiforidou (eds.), pp. 183–205 | Article
Construction grammarians are still quite reluctant to extend their descriptions to units beyond the sentence. However, the theoretical premises of construction grammar and frame semantics are particularly suited to cover spoken interaction from a cognitive perspective. Furthermore, as construction… read more
Fischer, Kerstin 2013 The addressee in the recipe: How Julia Child gets to join you in the kitchenCulinary Linguistics: The chef's special, Gerhardt, Cornelia, Maximiliane Frobenius and Susanne Ley (eds.), pp. 103–118 | Article
Texts may be adjusted to their target audiences to different degrees. Recipes are a highly conventionalized text-type, which leaves little room for variation; nevertheless, cookbooks are often tuned to particular audiences. The current study investigates how the addressee may be oriented to in… read more
Fischer, Kerstin, Kilian Foth, Katharina Rohlfing and Britta Wrede 2011 Mindful tutors: Linguistic choice and action demonstration in speech to infants and a simulated robotInteraction Studies 12:1, pp. 134–161 | Article
It has been proposed that the design of robots might benefit from interactions that are similar to caregiver–child interactions, which is tailored to children’s respective capacities to a high degree. However, so far little is known about how people adapt their tutoring behaviour to robots and… read more
Construction grammarians are still quite reluctant to extend their descriptions to units beyond the sentence. However, the theoretical premises of construction grammar and frame semantics are particularly suited to cover spoken interaction from a cognitive perspective. Furthermore, as construction… read more
Mey, Jacob L., Hartmut Haberland and Kerstin Fischer 2010 EditorialPragmatics and Society 1:1, pp. 1–8 | Article
Fischer, Kerstin 2003 Notes on analysing contextPerspectives on Dialogue in the New Millennium, Kühnlein, Peter, Hannes Rieser and Henk Zeevat (eds.), pp. 193–214 | Article