Streeck VITA September 2020 - University of Texas at Austin

August 31, 2020

CURRICULUM VITAE Jürgen Streeck

Professor of Communication Studies, Anthropology, and Germanic Studies [email protected] http://www.jurgenstreeck.net/

Dept. of Communication Studies The University of Texas at Austin

2504A Whitis Ave. Austin, TX 78712-0115

Education 1981 Ph.D. (Linguistics), Freie Universität Berlin (‘summa cum laude’).

Dissertation: “Die soziale Ordnung kindlicher Interaktion: Eine mikroethnographische Studie.” (“The social order of child communication: A micro-ethnographic study”)

1976-1978 Graduate studies in sociology (additional course-work in linguistics and anthropology), University of California, San Diego; scholarship from DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service)

1976 M.A. (Linguistics), Freie Universität Berlin (‘summa cum laude’). Master’s thesis: “Das methodologische Problem des Fremdverstehens sprachlicher Handlungen.” (The methodological problem of understanding linguistic actions)

1972-1976 Undergraduate and master’s student, Freie Universität Berlin (Linguistics, Sociology, Philosophy)

1970-1972 Undergraduate student, Universität Hamburg (Linguistics, Sociology, Philosophy)

Employment 2013- Professor, Dept. of Communication Studies, University of Texas at Austin

1995-2013 Associate Professor, Dept. of Communication Studies, University of Texas at Austin

2003- Associate Professor (concurrent zero-time appointment), Dept. of Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin

1999- Associate Professor (concurrent zero-time appointment), Dept. of

Germanic Studies, University of Texas at Austin 1989-1995 Assistant Professor, Language and Culture, Department of Speech

Communication, University of Texas at Austin

1983-1989 Hochschulassistent (Assistant Professor), Linguistics, Fachbereich Germanistik, Freie Universität Berlin

1979-1983 wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (lecturer), Linguistics, Fachbereich Germanistik Freie Universität Berlin

Visiting appointments Summer 2016 Visiting Professor, Dept. of Sociology and Dept. of Sports, Carl-von-

Ossietsky University, Oldenburg, Germany

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5/2013-4/2014 Georg-Gottfried-Gervinus Fellow and Visiting Professor, Graduate College “Self-Making: Historical and Interdisciplinary Aspects of Subjectivitation”, Carl-von-Ossietsky University, Oldenburg, Germany

2000 Visiting Professor, Faculty of Arts (Communication- and Information-Science), University of Utrecht, Netherlands; spring semester

1999 Visiting Professor, Dept. of Applied Linguistics, University of Vienna, Austria; fall semester

1998 Visiting Scholar, Institut für deutsche Sprache, Mannheim, Germany; June

1998 Faculty, International Graduate School in Language and Communication, Odense University, Denmark; July

1994 Visiting Scholar, Institut für deutsche Sprache, Mannheim, Germany; June-July

1993 Visiting Scholar, Institut für deutsche Sprache, Mannheim, Germany; June-July

1985 Visiting Scholar, Institute of the Linguistic Society of America, Georgetown University, Washington D.C. (awarded by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft); summer

1983 Visiting Scholar, Institut für deutsche Sprache, Mannheim; fall semester

Honors and Awards 5/2013–4/2014 Georg Gottfried Gervinus Fellowship, Minister for Science and Culture,

Lower Saxonia, Germany, Humanities Program (EUR 95,000/$ 120,000)

2011 Anneliese-Maier Price for Research Cooperation, Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, Germany (EUR 250,00; nominated)

2010 NCA Language and Social Interaction Outstanding Scholarly Publication Award (runner-up)

2011 Senior Fellow, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany; June-July

2010 Senior Fellow, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Germany; January-June

2005 Fellow, Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), Institute for Advanced Study, Bielefeld University, Germany; October 2005-August 2006

2005 Fellow to the George Christian Centennial Professorship, UT Austin; summer

2004 Fellow, Center for Interdisciplinary Research/ZiF, Universität Bielefeld, Germany; May-August

2002-05 Inaugural President, International Society for Gesture Studies

1997 Dean’s Fellow, U of Texas at Austin; spring semester

1994 Fellow to the Joe W. Neal Centennial Fellowship, College of Communication, University of Texas at Austin (“Speech Handling”); summer

1993 College of Communication Research Award, U of Texas at Austin


1991 Summer Research Award, University Research Institute, The University of Texas at Austin (“Gesture in Human Communication: A Cross-Cultural Study”)

1990

Fellow to the William Hobby Fellowship, College of Communication, The

University of Texas at Austin; summer

1976-77 Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD), Scholarship, International Graduate Program (graduate studies at UC San Diego)

Grants 2017 2008

Independent Inquiry Flag Course Development Award ($3,000) Undergraduate Mentorship “Micropolitics” (support for one graduate

student and three undergraduate research assistants; $ 8.750) 2001

Research Internship ($ 11,000 and benefits, for recruitment of graduate student), Office of Graduate Studies, U of Texas at Austin

1997 Research Internship ($ 11,000 and benefits, for recruitment of graduate student), Office of Graduate Studies, U of Texas at Austin

1987 “Sprachliche Interaktion im typologischen Vergleich” (Verbal Interaction in Comparative/Typlogical Perspective); Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Science Foundation); principal investigator ($ 60,000). Linguistic field research, collecting of video-data, and data analysis on relationships between language type and interactional organization in the Philippine (Austronesian) language Ilokano

Small and technical grants 1999 “World@Rap: Language, Culture, and Social Interaction in the Mirror of

Hip-Hop.” FasTEX grant, The University of Texas at Austin

1998 “Streaming Technology in Research and Instruction on Language, Culture, and Interaction.” Project QUEST, The University of Texas at Austin. (Compaq Workstation)

1998 The Hewlett Foundation, “Unity in Diversity Initiative.” ($ 4000 for redesigning classes in Intercultural Communication to facilitate group-work; with Senem Güney)

1996 “Animating Language.” Motorola Small Grants Program ($ 2,000)

1995 “SILC Modules: Multimedia Components for Instruction in Social interaction, Language, and Culture.” Project QUEST, The University of Texas at Austin. (Apple PowerMac computer)

1993 “American Gesture: A Multimedia Gallery for Visual and Interactive Learning.” Jamail Research Grant, College of Communication, The University of Texas at Austin

1993 Project QUEST, The University of Texas at Austin. Development of a multimedia work-space for student projects in the analysis of human


interaction 1986 “Konversationelle Interaktion im Kulturvergleich”. Freie Universität Berlin ($

2,500) PUBLICATIONS: Books 2017 Self-Making Man. A Day of Action, Life and Language. New York: Cambridge

University Press. (Paperback edition 2019) 443 + xxx pp. Reviews:

K.N. Jenkins, ‘Interaction mechanics: Communicative Practices of an Auto-Repair Shop Owner’. Symbolic Interaction, 2018. J. Fulka, ‘Ulysses in Texas’. Studie Z Aplikované Lingvistiky, 2, 2018.

2009 Gesturecraft. The Manu-facture of Meaning. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

(Paperback edition 2011) xii, 235 pp.

Reviews: W.D. Crano, Contemporary Psychology, APA Review of Books. Vol. 54,

Release 48, Article 7, 2009 N.J. Enfield, Pragmatics and Cognition. 18:2, 2010, 465-467 J. Wilcox, Sign Language and Linguistics, 13:1, 2010, 69-74

E. Sara Rovira, The Journal of Specialized Translation, 17, 2012, 295-6 K. Murphy, Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 22, 1, 2012, 130-132 L. Monada, Language in Society, 42, 2013, 331-340

Review article: C. Meyer, Gestenforschung als Praxeologie: Zu Jürgen Streecks mikro-ethnographischer Theorie der Gestik. Gesprächsforschung – Online Zeitschrift zur verbalen Interaktion. 11, 2010, 208-230 J. Haviland, Gesture, 12:2, 2012, 227-252

Book notice: U. Sassenberg, Language and Dialogue, 1:2, 2011, 339-40

1983 Kommunikation in einer kindlichen Sozialwelt. Tübingen: Narr. xiv, 241 pp. 1983 Social Order in Child Communication. Amsterdam: Benjamins, B.V. (English version

of Kommunikation in einer kindlichen Sozialwelt). vi, 130 pp. PUBLICATIONS: Edited books and special journal issue 2018 A. Deppermann & J. Streeck (eds.). Time in Embodied Interaction. Amsterdam:

Benjamins B.V. 354 + vi pp. Review: A. Lyons, LINGUIST List 30.2321 2017 C.Meyer, J.Streeck, & J.S. Jordan (eds.). Intercorporeality: Emerging Socialities in

Interaction. Oxford University Press. 390 + xlix pp.


2011 Streeck, J.,C. Goodwin & C. LeBaron (eds.). Embodied Interaction. Language and Body in the Material World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. xiii, 308 pp.

2010 Streeck, J. (ed.). New Adventures in Language and Interaction. Amsterdam: John

Benjamins. vi, 275 pp. 2009 Anticipation and Projection in Embodied Interaction. Special double issue.

Discourse Processes, 46, 2-3, 2009. Eds. J. Streeck & J. S. Jordan. 175 pp. 1986 Children’s Worlds and Children’s Language. Eds. J. Cook-Gumperz, W. Corsaro & J.

Streeck. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. x, 487 pp. PUBLICATIONS: Refereed journal articles under review The emancipation of gestures. Invited article for inaugural issue of

Interactional Linguistics. To appear Spring 2021.

2020 Self-touch as sociality. Social Interaction. Video-Based Studies of Human Sociality. Vol. 3, Issue 2, 2020.

2020 Guo, E., Katila, J. & Streeck, J. Touch and distributed agency in pediatric dentistry

Social Interaction. Video-Based Studies of Human Sociality. Special issue on human-to-human touch in institutional settings. Vol.3, Issue 1, 2020.

2018 The making of the world in co-operative action: From sentence construction to

cultural evolution. Media in Action, 3, 2018, 219-236. 2018 Grammaticalization and bodily action: Do they go together? Research on

Language & Social Interaction, 21(1), 26-32. 2015 Oshima, S. & J. Streeck, Coordinating talk and practical action: The case of

service assessments. Pragmatics and Society. 6:4 (2015), 538–564 2015 Embodiment in human communication. Annual Review of Anthropology, 44, 419–

38 (invited publication) 2015 Streeck, J. & K. Harrison. Children’s interactions in an urban face-to-face society.

The case of a South-American plaza. Pragmatics and Society. 6:3, 2015, 305-338 2013

Interaction and the living body Journal of Pragmatics. Special issue on multimodal interaction. Journal of Pragmatics, 46, 69--90

2011 Interaction order and anxiety disorder. A “Batesonian” heuristic of speaking patterns in psychotherapy. Communication and Medicine. 8, 3, 261-272.


2009 J. Streeck & J.S. Jordan. Communication as a dynamical self-sustaining system: The importance of time-scales and nested contexts. Communication Theory, 19, 448–467.

2009 Depicting gestures. The representation of body motion in the visual arts of the

West. Gesture, 9, 1, 1-34. 2009 J. Streeck & J.S. Jordan. Projection and anticipation: The forward-looking nature of

embodied communication. Discourse Processes, 46, 2-3, March-June 2009, 93-102.

2009 Forward-gesturing. Discourse Processes, 46, 2-3, March-June 2009, 161-179. 2008 Depicting by gestures. Gesture 8:3, 285–301. 2008 Gesture in political communication. A case study of the Democratic presidential

candidates during the 2004 primary campaign. Research on Language and Social Interaction, 41, 1, 154-186.

2002 Grammars, words, and embodied meanings. On the evolution and uses of so and

like. Journal of Communication, 52, 3, September 2002, 581-596. 2002 A body and its gestures. Gesture, 2, 1, 2002, 19-44. 2002 J. Streeck & U. Streeck. Mikroanalyse sprachlichen und körperlichen

Interaktionsverhaltens in psychotherapeutischen Beziehungen (Micro-analysis of verbal and embodied interaction in psychotherapeutic relationships). Zeitschrift für Psycho-therapie und Sozialwissenschaft, 5, 1, 61-79.

2000 J. Streeck & W. Kallmeyer. Interaction by inscription. Journal of Pragmatics. 33, 4,

465-490. 1997 C. LeBaron & J. Streeck. Built space and the interactional framing of experience

during a murder interrogation. Human Studies, 20, 1-25. 1996 How to do things with things: Objets trouvés and symbolization. Human Studies, 19,

365-384. 1996 A little Ilokano grammar as it appears in interaction. Journal of Pragmatics, 26,

189-213. 1994 Gesture as communication II: The audience as co-author. Research on Language

and Social Interaction. 27 (3), (Special Issue: Is Gesture Communicative? Ed. by A.Kendon), 239-267.

1993 Gesture as communication I: Its coordination with gaze and speech.

Communication Monographs, 60 (December 1993), 275-299.


1991 Tao-Saó. Talking Culture with Rousseau. Research on Language and Social Interaction, Special Issue “Ethnography and Conversation Analysis: Studies after Talking Culture”, R. Hopper (ed.). Vol. 24, 1990/91: 241-261.

1989 Methodologische Aspekte der linguistischen Analyse von Gesprächen

(Methodological aspcts of the linguistic analysis of conversation). Zeitschrift für Phonetik, Sprachwissenschaft und Kommunikation, 42, 2, 192-207.

1988 The significance of gestures: How it is established. Papers in Pragmatics, 2, 1/2, 60-

84. 1984 Embodied Contexts, Transcontextuals, and the Timing of Speech Acts. Journal of

Pragmatics, 8, 1, 113-137. 1983 Konversationsanalyse. Ein Reparaturversuch. Zeitschrift für Sprachwissenschaft, 3,

72-104. 1981 Schwarz-weiße Spiegelungen. Ästhetik und Kommunikation, 44, 133-154. 1980 Speech Acts in Interaction. A Critique of Searle. Discourse Processes, 3, 133-154. 1978 Sprachliches Handeln und sprachliche Verständigung. Argumente wider den

semantischen Absolutismus der Sprechakttheorie. Linguistische Berichte, 58, 23-43.

1975 Sprechakttheorie, soziologische Sprachtheorie und Sprachunterricht. Linguistik

und Didaktik, 24, 260-269. 1975 G. Klann, J. Streeck and B. Wiese. Probleme der Grundstudiumsreform in der

germanistischen Linguistik. Linguistische Arbeiten und Berichte, 5, 77-129. PUBLICATIONS: Book chapters Forthcoming Interaktion. Handbuch Kultursoziologie des Sports. Alkemeyer, T., Brümmer, K., &

Janetzko, A., eds. Stuttgart: Metzler. Forthcoming Indexikalische Ausdrücke und mimetische Kommunikation. 100 Jahre Harold Garfinkel,

50 Jahr Studies in Ethnomethodology - Werkinterpretation und theoretische Entwicklungen. Bergmann, J., Meyer, C., & Schüttpelz, E., eds. Stuttgart: Metzler.

2021 Gesture, mimesis, and the linguistics of time. Approaches to Discourse Analysis.

Gordon, C., ed. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press. forthcoming Meyer, C. & Streeck, J. (2020). Ambivalences of touch. An epilogue. Touch in Social

Interaction. Touch, Language, and Body. Cekaite, A. & Mondada, L. (eds.). Amsterdam: Benjamins. 311-326.


Meyer, C. & Streeck, J. (2020). Taktile, haptische und interkorporale Interaktion: Diesseits

und jenseits der Grenzen der Kommunikation. Grenzen der Kommunikation – Kommunikation an den Grenzen. Reichertz, J., ed. Weilerswist: Delbrück Wissenschaft. 35-50.

2019 Gesture research. Handbook of Pragmatics. 22nd Annual Installment. Östman, J.-A.,

& Verschueren, J., eds. Amsterdam: Benjamins. 3-30. 2018 Charles Goodwin conceived as a German anthropologist. In D. Favereau (Ed.),

Co-operative Engagements in Intertwined Semiosis: Essays in Honour of Charles Goodwin (pp. 387-396). Tartu: University of Tartu Press.

2018 Times of rest. A. Deppermann & J. Streeck (eds.) Time in Embodied Interaction,

325-350. Amsterdam: Benjamins B.V. 2018 A. Deppermann & J. Streeck, The body in interaction. Its multiple modalities and

temporalities. A. Deppermann & J. Streeck (eds.) Time in Embodied Interaction, 1-29. Amsterdam: Benjamins B.V.

2017 Afterword. Moving Bodies in Interaction – Interacting Bodies in Motion. C. Meyer &

U.v.Wedelstedt (eds.). Amsterdam: Benjamins B.V. 2017 Cuffari, E. & J. Streeck. Taking the world by hand. How (some) gestures mean. In

Meyer, C., Streeck, J. & J.S.Jordan. Intercorporeality: Emerging Socialities in Interaction. Oxford University Press,173 – 202.

Meyer, C., Streeck, J. & J.S.Jordan. Intercorporeality: Emerging socialities in interaction.

An introduction. In Meyer, C., Streeck, J. & J.S.Jordan. Intercorporeality: Emerging Socialities in Interaction. Oxford University Press, xv – xlix.

2016 Gestische Praxis und sprachliche Form. In Deppermann, A., Feilke, H., & Linke, A.

Praktiken: Sprache, Kommunikation, Kultur. Berlin: de Gruyter. 2015 Gesture. The Routledge Handbook in Linguistic Anthropology. Ed. by N. Bonvillain.

London: Routledge, 27-43. 2015 Soziale Regeln als Spielmaterial. Redeübergabe und Objektübergabe in einem

Morgenkreis. (“Play with social rules. Turn-transfer and object-transfer in a sharing circle”). In Alkemeyer, T., Kalthoff, H. & Rieger-Ladich, M. (eds.). Bildungspraxis. Körper - Räume - Objekte. Weiterwisst: Velbrück, 73-89.

2014 Mutual gaze and recognition. Revisiting gaze direction in two-person interaction.

In From Gesture in Conversation to Visible Action as Utterance. Festschrift for Adam Kendon. Gullberg, M. & Seyfeddinipur, M. (eds.). Amsterdam: Benjamins B.V., 2014, 35-55.


2013 Transforming space into place: Some interactions in an urban plaza. In New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence. Selected Papers from JSAI-isAI 2012 Workshops. Y. Motomura, A. Butler, & D. Bekki (eds.). Berlin: Springer, 217-232.

2013 Plaza: Space or place? In P. Auer, M. Hilbert, B. Szmrecsanyi & A. Stukenbrock

(eds.). Linguistic Perspectives on Space: Geography, Interaction, and Cognition. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 303 – 333.

2013 Praxeology of gesture. Handbook Body Laguage Communication. An International Handbook on Multimodality in Human Interaction. Vol.1. Ed. by Müller, C., Cienki, A., Fricke, E., Ladewig, S, McNeill, D., Tessendorf, S. Berlin: de Gruyter, 674-685

2013 Sonnenschein als Grenzobjekt. In Grenzobjekte Festschrift für Stephan Wolf. R.

Hörster, S. Köngeter, & B. Müller. Wiesbaden: Springer VS. (‘Sunshine as a boundary object’; about samples in hip-hop) in Boundary Objects. Festschrift for Stephan Wolf. 269-284

2012 Nachhaltige Angst. (“Sustainable anxiety”). In Sozialität in Slow Motion:

Theoretische und empirische Perspektiven — eine Festschrift für Jörg Bergmann. R. Ayaß & C. Meyer (eds.). Wiesbaden: VS Verlag 2012. 447-462.

2011 J. Streeck, C. Goodwin, C. LeBaron. Embodied interaction: An introduction. J.

Streeck, C. Goodwin & C. LeBaron (eds.). Embodied Interaction. Language and Body in the Material World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1 - 26

2011 The changing meanings of things: Found objects and inscriptions in social

interaction. J. Streeck, C. Goodwin & C. LeBaron (eds.). Embodied Interaction. Language and Body in the Material World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 67-78


2011 S. Avital & J. Streeck. Terra incognita: Social interaction among blind children. J. Streeck, C. Goodwin & C. LeBaron (eds.). Embodied Interaction. Language and Body in the Material World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 169-181

2010 J. Streeck & D. Henderson. Das Handwerk des Hip-Hop. Freestyle als körperliche

Praxis. (The handiwork of hip-hop. Freestyle as embodied performance). In C. Wulf and E. Fischer-Lichte (Eds.) Gesten: Inszenierung, Aufführung und Praxis. München: Wilhelm Fink. 180-206

2010 Ecologies of gesture: Action and interaction. J. Streeck (ed.). New Adventures in

Language and Interaction. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 221 - 240 2010 New adventures in language and interaction. J. Streeck (ed.). New Adventures

in Language and Interaction. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 1 - 8 2008 Laborious intersubjectivity. Attentional struggle and embodied communication

in an auto-shop. Embodied Communication in Humans and Machines. Ed. I.Wachsmuth, M. Lenzen & G. Knoblich. Oxford University Press. 202-228.

2008 Metaphor and gesture: A view from the microanalysis of interaction. Metaphor

and Gesture. Eds. A. Cienki & C. Müller. Amsterdam: Benjamins B.V. 289-294. 2007 Geste und verstreichende Zeit: Stillstand und Bedeutungswandel (Gesture and

passing time: Stillness and semantic change). Gespräch als Prozess (Conversation as Process). Ed. H. Hausendorf. Tübingen: Narr. 157-177.

2004 J. Streeck & S. Mehus. Microethnography: The Study of Practices Handbook of

Language and Social Interaction. Eds. K. Fitch & R. Sanders. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. 381-406.

2003 The body taken for granted: Lingering dualism in research on social interaction.

Studies in Language and Social Interaction: In Honor of Robert Hopper. Eds. P. Glenn, C.D. LeBaron & J. Mandelbaum. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. 427-440.

2002 Culture, meaning, and interpersonal communication (revised version).

Handbook of Interpersonal Communication. Eds. M.L. Knapp & J. Daly. Beverly Hills: Sage. 3rd Edition. 300-335.

2002 Hip-Hop-Identität. Soziale Welten und sprachliche Stile. Festschrift für Werner

Kallmeyer. Eds. I. Keim & W. Schütte. Tübingen: Narr. 537-558. 2001 Praxeologie. Interdisziplinarität in der Angewandten Sprachwissenschaft. Eds. H.

Gruber & F. Menz. Frankfurt/M.: Peter Lang. 33-56. 2000 C. LeBaron & J. Streeck. Gestures, knowledge, and the world. Language and

Gesture: Window into Thought and Action. Ed. D. McNeill Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 118-138.


1995 Small world democracy. Children as Citizens. The Social and Juridical

Constitution of Children’s Rights. Eds. W. de Graaf & C. van Nijnatten. Utrecht: Onderzoekschool AWSB. 63-68.

1995 Ethnomethodologische Indifferenz im Ost-West-Dialog. Nationale Stereotypen in

Osteuropäischen Staaten. Manifestationen im Diskurs. Eds. M. Czyzewski, E. Gülich, H. Hausendorf, M. Kastner. Wiesbaden: Westdeutscher Verlag. 430-436.

1995 On Projection. Interaction and Social Intelligence. Ed. E. Goody. Cambridge:

Cambridge University Press. 84-110. 1994 Culture, meaning, and interpersonal communication. Handbook of Interpersonal

Communication. Eds. M. L. Knapp & G. Miller. Beverly Hills: Sage. 286-319 1994 Leichte Muse im Gespräch. (Über die Unterhaltungskunst älterer Frauen in der

Filsbach). Kommunikation in der Stadt. Ed. W. Kallmeyer. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 578-610.

1993 Keep a Rope on Your Patience!’ Über eine amerikanische Art des Umgangs mit

sich selbst. In Sprachliche Aufmerksamkeit. Festschrift für Walther Dieckmann. Eds. I. Paul and P. Klein. Darmstadt: Winter Universitäts Verlag, 195-201.

1992 J. Streeck & U. Hartge. Previews: Gestures at the Transition Place. The

Contextualization of Language. Eds. P. Auer & A. di Luzio. Amsterdam Benjamins B.V. 135-158

1992 The Dispreferred Other. (On) Searle on Conversation. Eds. J. Nuyts & J.

Verschueren. Amsterdam: Benjamins B.V. 129-136 1992 J. Streeck & M. L. Knapp. The Relationship between Visual and Verbal Features in

Human Communication. Advances in Nonverbal Communication. Ed. F. Poyatos. Amsterdam: Benjamins B.V. 3-24

1991 Sprachanalyse als empirische Geisteswissenschaft. Von der “philosophy of mind”

zur “kognitiven Linguistik”. Handbuch Qualitative Sozialforschung. Eds. U. Flick, L. v.Rosenstiel & S.Wolff. München: Psychologie Verlags Union. 1991, 90-100.

1989 J. Schwitalla & J. Streeck.Subversive Interaktionen. Sprachliche Verfahren der

sozialen Abgrenzung in einer Jugendlichengruppe. Stil und Stilisierung. Arbeiten zur interpretativen Soziolinguistik. Eds. V. Hinnenkamp and M. Selting. Tübingen: Niemeyer. 229-251

1988 Seniorinnengelächter. Das Gelächter der Geschlechter. Humor und Macht in

Gesprächen von Männern und Frauen. Ed. H. Kotthoff. Frankfurt/M.: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag. 54-77

1987 Ethnomethodologie. Internationales Handbuch Soziolinguistik. Eds. U. Ammon, N.

Dittmar and K. Mattheier. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 659-665


1986 W. Corsaro & J. Streeck. Studying Children’s Worlds: Methodological Issues.

Children’s Worlds and Children’s Language. Eds. W. Corsaro, J. Cook-Gumperz and J. Streeck. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 13-36

1986 Towards Reciprocity: Gender, Rank and Politics in the Interaction of a Group of

School-children. Children’s Worlds and Children’s Language. Eds. W. Corsaro, J. Cook-Gumperz and J. Streeck. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 295-326

1985 Kulturelle Kodes und ethnische Grenzen. Drei Theorien über Fehlschläge in der

inter-ethnischen Kommunikation. Interkulturelle Kommunikation. Ed. J. Rehbein. Tübingen: Narr. 103-120

1985 Wem gehört der Kontext? Kommunikation im Sprachunterricht. Eds. H. Bolte & W.

Herrlitz. Utrecht: Rijksuniversiteit. 21-70 1983 Kommunikation. Kritische Stichwörter Sprachdidaktik. Eds. M. Gorschenek and A.

Rucktäschel. München: Fink. 114-128 1983 Lehrerwelten - Kinderwelten. Zur vergleichenden Ethnographie von

Lernkommunikation innerhalb und außerhalb der Schule. Kommunikation in Schule und Hochschule. Eds. K. Ehlich & J. Rehbein. Tübingen: Narr. 203-214

1979 “Sandwich. Good for you.” Zur pragmatischen und konversationellen Analyse

von Bewertungen im institutionellen Diskurs der Schule. Arbeiten zur Konversationsanalyse. Ed. J. Dittman. Tübingen: Niemeyer. 235-257

PUBLICATIONS: Conference proceedings 1999 M. A. Foytlin, C. A. Nelson, W. Rahman & J. Streeck. Casualties of lyrical combat.

SALSA No. 6. Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Symposium About Language and Society—Austin. Austin TX: Department of Linguistics, The University of Texas. 74-83.

1997 Language on the move.SALSA No.4: Proceedings of the Fourth Annual

Symposium About Language and Society—Austin. Eds. A. Chu, A-M. P. Guerra, C. Tetreault. Austin TX: Department of Linguistics, The University of Texas. 123-131.

PUBLICATIONS: Encyclopedia articles 2015 Gesture. The International Encyclopedia of Language and Social Interaction, K.

Tracy (ed.) Wiley-Blackwell 2008 Gestures in Discourse. The International Encyclopedia of Communication (ed.

Donsbach), Volume 5. Oxford and Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. 1965-1967 2006 Gestures: Pragmatic Aspects. In: Keith Brown, (Editor-in-Chief). Encyclopedia of

Language & Linguistics, Second Edition, Vol. 5. Oxford: Elsevier. 71-76


PUBLICATIONS: Review articles 2007 Homo faber’s gestures. Review article on A. Kendon, Gesture: Visible Action as

Utterance. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 17, 1, 130-140. 2003 A moment and its gestures. Review article on Leo Steinberg’s Leonardo’s Last

Supper. Gesture, 3, 2, 2003, 213-236. PUBLICATIONS: Reviews 2017 Making Mystery. A Review of Rethinking Body Language: How Hand Movements

Reveal Hidden Thoughts by Geoffrey Beattie. New York: Routledge 2016. PsycCRITIQUES, June 5, 2017, Vol. 62, No. 23, Article 1

2013 Alim, H.S., Ibrahim, A. & A. Pennycook (eds.). Global Linguistic Flows. Hip Hop

Cultures, Youth Identities, and the Politics of Language. London: Routledge, 2009. Jahrbuch Lied und populäre Kultur, Vol.58, 2013, 304-310.

2013 G. Calbris, Elements of Meaning in Gesture. Amsterdam: Benjamins B.V. (2011). Lingua, 134, 2013, 32-35.

2010 N.J. Enfield. The Anatomy of Meaning. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,

2009. In Pragmatics and Cognition, 18, 2, 2010, 457-464. 1992 I. Dimitracopoulou. Conversational Competence and Social Development (New

York: Cambridge University Press, 1990). American Anthropologist, 94, 2, 1992, 467.

1992 M. Berns. Contexts of Competence: Social and Cultural Considerations in

Communicative Language Teaching (New York: Plenum Press, 1990). American Anthropologist, 94, 3,1992, 706-07.

1983 The Pear Stories - Cognitive, Cultural and Linguistic Aspects of Narrative

Production, W.L. Chafe (ed.). Journal of Pragmatics, 7, 93-101 1980 W. Labov & D. Fanshel, Therapeutic Discourse. Language in Society, 9, 1, 117-126 1980 Studies in the Organization of Conversational Interaction, J. Schenkein (ed.).

Journal of Pragmatics, 4, 401-411 1977 J.J. Gumperz, Sprache, lokale Kultur und soziale Identität. Das Argument, 104,

566-567 1976 H.J.Heringer, Praktische Semantik, and Der Regelbegriff in der praktischen

Semantik, H.J.Heringer (ed.). Das Argument, 95, 126-130 PUBLICATIONS: Internet publications 2003 Balinese hands. Web-site.

<http://www.utexas.edu/coc/cms/faculty/streeck/bali/> PUBLICATIONS: Other


2019 Zwischen den Stühlen der Konversationsanalyse und der Ethnomethodologie.

Jürgen Streeck im Gespräch mit Hannes Krämer & René Salomon. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung, 20, 2, 2019.

2007 Hände, Handeln, Händel. Text in: Bina Elisabeth Mohn und Jutta Wiesemann.

Handwerk des Lernens. Kamera-ethnographische Studien zur verborgenen Kreativität im Klassenzimmer. (DVD Publication) Göttingen: IWF Wissen und Medien.

PUBLICATIONS: Translations 1975 A.V. Cicourel, Sprache in der sozialen Interaktion (Cognitive Sociology, transl. by

J. Streeck, J. Zeller & P. Zschäckel). München: List Verlag. 1978 U.Quasthoff (ed.). Sprachstruktur - Sozialstruktur. Kronberg/Ts.: Scriptor. (Chapters

by M.A.K. Halliday, J.J. Gumperz, B. Wald, H. Sacks & E.A. Schegloff). PAPERS PRESENTED (*=invited papers & presentations) 2019 * Having Hands. Keynote lecture, Vth Copenhagen Multimodality Day. Copenhagen,

DK, October 4, 2019. From Gesture to Grammar? 16th International Pragmatics Conference, Hong Kong,

June 11, 2019 Touch in the Management of Roles and Emotions: A Study of Pediatric Dentistry, with E.

Guo & J. Katila. 16th International Pragmatics Conference, Hong Kong, June 13, 2019

* Conceptual Gestures, Keynote Lecture, Gesture-Sign Workshop 2019, Charles

University, Prague, Czech Republic, May 16, 2019 The Emergence of Gesture and the Linguistics of Time, SALSA XXVII, Symposium about

Language and Society Austin, April 12, 2019 * A Day of Action, Life, and Learning, or: Autopoeisis in an Autoshop. Invited Lecture.

Graduate School of Education, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, February 22, 2019

2018 Face-to-Face Thinking, Panel presentation, Annual Conference of the American

Anthropological Association, San José, CA, Nov.16, 2018 Gesture politics. An old agenda and some new examples. 8th Conference of the

International Society for Gesture Studies – Gesture and Diversity. July 4-8, 2018. Cape Town, South Africa.


*Pandora’s Touch. Center for Human Interactivity. South Denmark University, Odense,

DK. 2nd Symposium on Embodied Interaction: ”Gesture, Touch and Embodied Meaning-Making”. June 27, 2018

*Indexicality, Intersubjectivity, Intercorporeality. Keynote Lecture, Georgetown University

Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT), “Approaches to Discourse”, March 9-11, 2018, Georgetown University, Washington, DC.

2017 * Indexicality and Embodiment. International Conference “50 Jahre Studies in

Ethnomethodology – 100 Jahre Harold Garfinkel“, University of Konstanz (Germany), October 26-28.

* Intersubjectivity, Indexicality, Intecorporality. Invited Lecture, The 7th Annual Language

and Social Interaction Working Group (LANSI) Conference. Teacher’s College, Columbia University, New York, N.Y., September 22-23.

* Microethnography of Communicative Action. The International Summer School

“Anthropology of Science and Modern Forms of Life”, Tomsk State University, Tomsk (Russia), June 30.

Gesture/Painting: Allusions and Illusions. Twelfth International Conference on the Arts in

Society, June 15, 2017, The American University of Paris, Paris, France * The Inhabitant of the Transformation Zone: A philosophical-anthropological

interpretation. Symposium on Simultaneity in Action, UCLA, Los Angeles (CA), April 28, 2017.

* The Speaking of the World in Co-Operative Action: Charles Goodwin’s Archaeology of

Linguistic Practices. Keynote lecture, SALSA XXV (Symposium about Language and Society, Austin), The University of Texas at Austin, April 15.

2016 Untitled presentation. Conference ‘Learning how to look and listen: Building capacity

for video-based transcription and analysis in social and educational research’, Temple AZ, Arizona State University, Nov. 4.-6, 2016.

Practicing gesturecraft: One man’s gestures of completion. VII. Conference of the

International Society for Gesture Studies, Université Paris 3, Paris (France), July 25. * Embodiment, Emplacement, Displacement. The UCLA Center for Language,

Interaction and Culture 2016 Body Talk Workshop. February 19-20th, 2016. Memorias de la Vida Social. Video Presentation, Plaza de la Trinidad, Cartagena de

Indias (Colombia), January 3. 2015 * Gesture: A Curious Root of Culture. Grupo de Estudos de Antropologia e Linguística.


Dept. of Anthropology, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, Dec.11. * Seeing gesture, feeling action. Revisiting Participation: Language and Bodies in

Interaction. University of Basel (Switzerland), June 24 – 27, 2015. * Ikonische Gesten im Erwerb. (Acquisition of iconic gestures) Workshop with Jürgen

Streeck. University of Bielefeld (Germany), June 29. * Praktiken gestischer und sprachlicher Darstellung. Annual Conference of the Institut für

deutsche Sprache, Mannheim (Germany). March 10-12, 2015. * Sprache und Körper im Hip Hop”. Lecture in lecture series "Hip Hop - Linguistische,

kulturwissenschaftliche und praktische Perspektiven, University of Bern/Switzerland, March 9, 2015

2014 * Micro-memories of social life. Paper presented at panel Producing the perceptible:

Inscriptions for the study of human interaction. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, December 3-7, 2014

Practicing gesturecraft. One person’s gestures of completion. 6th Conference of the

International Society for Gestures Studies. University of California, San Diego, July 8 – 11, 2014.

Two kinds of posture. Panel “Modalities of Anticipation: Disjunct and Convergent

Temporalities and the Organization of Action”. A. Deppermann & J. Streeck (organizers). 14th International Conference on Conversation Analysis. University of California, Los Angeles, June 25-29, 2014

* “Interactions between interactions”. Multiple Engagements: Complexities in Human

Involvement. 20th Anniversary LISO Symposium. University of California, Santa Barbara, February 14-16, 2014

* Gesture and groping. Workshop “Speech and Gesture: Embodied Cultural Practices”.

Viadrina European University, Frankfurt/Oder, Germany, Feb. 3, 2014 * Workshop “The Interactive Organization of Touch”. Gothenburg University, Sweden,

Jan. 30-31, 2014. (Discussant) * Micro-Studies of a Communicative Body. Invited lecture, Dept. of Language and

Communication, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, NL, Jan. 23, 2014. 2013 * Sequential organisation of multimodal interaction. Meeting of the German Science

Foundation Research Network “Multimodality and Embodied Interaction”, Sept 30 – Oct 2, 2013, University of Potsdam (invited guest)

* Workshop “Intercorporeality in Sports”. Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung (ZiF),

Universität Bielefeld. September 10 - 11, 2013. (Discussant)


* Zwischenkörperlichkeit (Intercorporeality). Der Wert des Körpers. 3. Interdisziplinäres

Symposion des Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS). University of Freiburg, June 13-14.

* Coordination and multimodal interaction. Meeting of the German Science

Foundation Research Network “Multimodality and Embodied Interaction”, Discussant. University of Würzburg, May 23-25.

* Embodiment and enactment in workplace dialogues. Keynote presentation. Dialogue

in Multimodal, Multilingual, and Multicompetent Communities of Practice. Workshop of the International Association for Dialogue Analysis. Austin, TX, March 23, 2013.

2012 * Gesture in social interaction, Seminar, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan,

December 5-6, 2012. * Research workshop/data session on gesture in social interaction, Kyoto University,

Japan, December 3, 2012. *Transforming space into place, Keynote Lecture, Workshop on Multispace Interaction,

The Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, Miyazaki, Japan. Pointing, directing, dwelling. 5th Congress of the International Society for Gesture

Studies, Lund (Sweden), July 25, 2012. 2011 * Hip-hop as productive force. International Congress “Translating Hip-Hop.” Haus der

Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (Germany), November 10-12, 2011. * Turn-Transfer und Objekt-Transfer: Interaktive Organisation des Unterrichtsgesprächs

(“Turn-transfer and object-transfer: Interactional organization of classroom talk”). Conference “Bildungspraktiken. Körper – Räume – Artefakte” (“Pedagogical Practices. Bodies – Spaces - Artifacts”). Universität Mainz, July 8-9, 2011.

Place-Making and Emplacement in the Plaza. Panel “Salient Space - Linguistic

Representation and Interactional Organisation of Place”. J. Streeck & P. Auer, Organizers. 10th International Pragmatics Conference, Manchester, UK, July 4, 2011.

* Eiko Yasui, Jurgen Streeck, Conjunctions as story-entry items: Parallels and differences

between English, Japanese, and Ilokano. Panel “Temporality in Interaction”. A. Deppermann & S. Günthner, Organizers. 10th International Pragmatics Conference, Manchester, UK, July 5, 2011.

Turn-transfer and object transfer. Colloquium, Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies

(FRIAS), June 20, 2011.


2010 * Gesturecraft. A Practice Perspective. Keynote address. Fourth Conference of the

International Society for Gesture Studies. Frankfurt/Oder (Germany), July 26, 2010 * Embodiment and Emplacement: Interaction and the Living Body. Keynote address.

10th International Conference for Conversation Analysis. Mannheim (Germany), July 8, 2010.

*Gestures of joint atttention. Panel "Deixis in Interaction". 10th International Conference

for Conversation Analysis. Mannheim (Germany), July 5, 2010. * Gesture: Knowledge and Communication of the Hands. John J. Gumperz Lecture;

Fachbereich Kulturwissenschaften, University of Applied Science, Fulda, Germany, June 15, 2010

Hip-hop-olis: transnational perspectives on rap in (socio)linguistics and

discourse analysis. Research colloquium with Christian Mair. Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), University of Freiburg (Germany), June 5.

* How hands make sense. Dinner speech. Freiburg Institut for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), University of Freiburg (Germany), May 5.

Pointing. Research colloquium with Lorenza Mondada and Anja Stukenbrock. Freiburg

Institut for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), University of Freiburg (Germany), March 10. 2009 * Public interaction and communal life in a plaza in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia.

Workshop "Language and interactional space", Freiburg Institut for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), University of Freiburg (Germany), November 16 – 18, 2009.

* Gestures and the culture of the hands. Workshop presentation. Colegio del Cuerpo,

Cartagena de Indias (Colombia), July 31. 2008 *Freestyle. Wort und Hand. Plenary lecture. Conference "Gestures. Staging,

performance, and practice". Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin. December 4 – 6. Balinese Hands. “The Enculturated Body – Time Scales of Embodied Meaning in

Communication”. International Symposium at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), Bielefeld University, co-sponsored by The Mind-Science Foundation, San Antonio, TX, June 28, 2008.

* Micro-ecology and macro-functions of gaze in workplace interaction. 17th

Sociolinguistics Symposium. Amsterdam, April 3 – 5, 2008. 2007 * Concluding Remarks. International Symposium "Speech and Body in Interaction:

Ethnographic Case Studies". Berlin, October 12-13, 2008.


Pragmatic gestures. 10th International Pragmatics Conference, Göteborg, Sweden, July 9, 2007

The analysis of gesture in the visual arts of the West. “Integrating Gestures”—Third

Congress of the International Society for Gesture Studies, Chicago, IL, June 18, 2007

Camera, discovery, gesture. “Integrating Gestures”—Third Congress of the International

Society for Gesture Studies, Chicago, IL, June 19, 2007 * Gesturecraft: Comprehending the World by Hand. LISO, University of California, Santa

Barbara, April 27, 2007. 2006 * Multimodal man and his sensibilities. International Conference “Embodied

Communication in Humans and Machines”, Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), Bielefeld University, September 6 – 9, 2006.

Projection by gesture. Workshop “The Forward-Looking Nature of Embodied

Communication: Projection, Participation, and Time-Scales in Social Interaction”, Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), Bielefeld University, July 10-11, 2006

* Kommunikative Modalitäten und multimodale Kommunikation, Dept. of German

Linguistics, University of Freiburg/Germany, June 20, 2006 * Multimodal Man. Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen/Netherlands,

June 12, 2006 * Gesture Studies: A Field and Its Context, Dept. of Rhetoric, Örebro University,

Örebro/Sweden, June 7. 2006 * Multimodality and Communicative Intelligence, Dept. of Rhetoric, Örebro University,

Örebro/ Sweden, June 7. 2006 * Ceiving: Thinking by hand. Institut Nicod/C.N.R.S., Paris/France, May 12, 2006. * Multimodal man. Observations on communicative intelligence. U. of South Denmark,

Søderborg, May 4, 2006. * Flow. Plenary lecture. Annual Meeting of the Arbeitskreis Linguistische Pragmatik.

University of Bielefeld, March 21, 2006. * Hip-Hop: Die Gestik der M.C.’s. Lecture Series “Body Movements—Analysis and

Transcription”, Berlin Gesture Center & Arbeitsstelle für Semiotik der Technischen Universiät Berlin & Berliner Arbeitskreis für Kultursemiotik (BAKS), December 14, 2006.

2005


Gaze, Gesture, Context, Speech: Ecologies of Alignment. Paper presented at the Annual Convention of the National Communication Association, Boston, MA, Nov. 17, 2005.

Language Use as Organizational Action: The Emergence of a Perspective. Paper

presented at the Annual Convention of the National Communication Association, Boston, MA, Nov. 18, 2005.

* Gesture and Illusion. Convegno "Gesture in the Mediterranean: Developments in

Gesture Studies in Southern Europe", Island of Procida, Naples, Italy, October 20-23, 2005

Hip-hop gestures: The conduct of the m.c. (with Sae Oshima). “Interacting Bodies”.

Second Congress of the International Society for Gesture Studies. Lyon/France, June 18, 2005

The gestural structuring of the world at hand. “Interacting Bodies”. Second Congress of

the International Society for Gesture Studies. Lyon/France, June 16, 2005 Candid bodies: Embodiment during the 2004 U.S. presidential campaign (with Kathleen

Feyh and Sae Oshima). “Interacting Bodies”.Second Congress of the International Society for Gesture Studies. Lyon/France, June 15, 2005

Gesture’s Ecologies. International Symposium “Embodied Communication in Humans

and Machines”. Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), University of Bielefeld, Germany, January 12 - 15, 2005.

Die Beschwerden einiger Angstpatientinnen. (The complaints of some anxiety patients)

Colloquium “Sprachliche Darstellung und klinische Repräsentation von Angst” (Verbal description and clinical representation of anxiety). Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), University of Bielefeld, Germany, January 6 – 8, 2005.

2004 “ How we got here”. Introduction to Pre-Convention Thematic Conference: “Moving

Forward /Looking Back: Multimodality - The Next Paradigm?”. Annual Convention of the National Communication Association, Chicago, IL, Nov. 10, 2004.

A “Dwelling Approach” to Gesture. Symposium on Gesture, Max-Planck-Institute for

Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen/Netherlands, July 18, 2004 Von der direkten Rede zum Verhaltenszitat (From Direct Speech to Quoted Behavior).

Symposium “Szenische Darstellungen” (Scenic Representation), Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Universität Bielefeld/Germany, July 16, 2004

* Politik von Angesicht zu Angesicht (Face-to-Face Politics). Symposium “Interaktion,

Bedeutung und die Kultur der Psychotherapie” (Interaction, Meaning, and the Culture of Psychotherapy), Krankenhaus Tiefenbrunn, Göttingen, Germany, July 2, 2004


* Körperpolitik (Body Politics). Invited Lecture, University of Cologne, Germany, June 22, 2004

*Gesture and the Communicative Organization of Action. Keynote Lecture. 10th

Annual CLIC Conference, Center for Language, Interaction and Culture, UCLA, May 15, 2004

* Candid Bodies: Howard Dean, George W. Bush, and the Return of the Body to Political

Communication”. Keynote Lecture, SALSA 12, Symposium about Language and Society Austin, April 17, 2004

* Gesture in Human Communication, Invited Lecture, Department of Kinesiology and

Health Education, Program in Movement Science, UT Austin, April 4, 2004 * Mutations of a Gesture: How Representation and Conceptualization Intersect.

Keynote Lecture. Spring Symposium of the Computer Writing and Research Lab, UT Austin, March 5, 2004

2003 Portrait of an Architect. Annual Convention of the National Communication

Association, Miami Beach, November 22, 2003, Panel “Multimodality in the Professions”

* Collective Mind and Embodied Communication in the Workplace. Invited Lecture,

Department of Management, UT Austin, October 24, 2003 Laocoon revisited. Panel “Video-based Research Methods”. Annual Convention of the

International Communication Association, San Diego, CA, May 27, 2003. * Bewegung und Bedeutung. Arbeitstagung Gesprächsanalyse. Universität Mannheim

(Germany), April 5 - 7, 2003 2002 * Embodied knowledge. Center for Language and Information, Stanford University,

November 18, 2002. The Living Medium. Plenary lecture at the conference “Gesture - The Living Medium.

First Congress of the International Society for Gesture Studies”. Austin, TX, June 5 – 8, 2002.

2001 On Being Like. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the National

Communication Organization, Atlanta, November 2001. Practices of Gestural Description. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the

National Communication Organization, Atlanta, November 2001.


* On Microethnography. (Panel: Handbook of Language and Social Interaction, 1: Social Environments.) Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the National Communication Organization, Atlanta, November 2001.

* Gestural Description. Center for Cognitive Sciences, University of Minnessota,

Minneapolis, March 26, 2001. 2000 * J. Streeck and U. Streeck. Mikroanalyse sprachlichen und körperlichen Interaktions

verhaltens in psychotherapeutischen Beziehungen. Conference “Qualitative linguistische Verfahren und klinische Forschung”. Universität Bielefeld, Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung, Nov. 16 – 18, 2000.

1999 * Rap und die Renaissance der gesprochenen Sprache. Wiener Sprachgesellschaft,

Vienna. December 1999. * Praxeologie. Österreichischer Linguistenkongreß. Vienna, Oct. 24, 1999. * The Wordliness of the Hands. 7th International Congress of the Association for Semiotic

Studies. Dresden, Germany, October 6 – 11, 1999. * Gesture as Cognitive Practice. Keynote lecture. IV. International Conference on

Cognitive Technologies. San Francisco, August 17, 1999. Finding the Ground underneath the Talking Heads. Paper presented at the panel

“Embracing our Differences within the Field of Language and Social Interaction”. Annual Conference of the International Communication Association. San Francisco, May, 1999.

1998 The tactility of gesture. International Symposium “Orage - Oralité, Gestualité”, Besançon

(France), December 9 – 11, 1998. * How to Do Things without Things. Keynore lecture. 17th Scandinavian Conference on

Linguistics. Nyborg, DK: August 20-22, 1998. * Rap: Die Kunst der sprachlichen Improvisation. Universität Bielefeld, Germany. July 3,

1998. * Rap: Risiken und Ressourcen musikalisch-poetischer Improvisationskunst. Universität

Mannheim, Germany. June 9, 1998. M. A. Foytlin, C. A. Nelson, W. Rahman & J. Streeck. Casualties of Lyrical Combat. SALSA

6, Symposium about Language and Society Austin. April 25, 1998. * M. A. Foytlin, C. A. Nelson, W. Rahman & J. Streeck. Casualties of Lyrical Combat.

Conference “What’s Going On: The African Diaspora at the University of Texas”. February 12, 1998.


1997 Gestures: Tools for thinking bodies. Panel “Embodied Thought”. Annual Convention of

the National Communication Association. Chicago, IL, November, 1997. The world as a communication resource: Intercultural communication without the myth.

Panel “Successful Intercultural Communication at Work: Using Available Resources”. Annual Convention of the National Communication Association. Chicago, IL, November, 1997.

* How to do things without things. “Expressive Culture” lecture series, Program for

Intercultural Studies in Folklore and Ethnomusicology, The University of Texas at Austin, Feb. 7, 1997.

1996 * Vis-a-vis an embodied mind. Panel “Cognitive Science and Anthropology: a Re-

Emerging Dialogue”, Annual Convention of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, CA, Nov. 22, 1996.

Uncle Ahm’s identities: Cultural studies in the dirt. Brown Bag presentation, Dept. of

Speech Communication, The University of Texas at Austin, Oct. 23, 1996. Tactility: Gestures, actions, artefacts. Panel “Gesture and Language Use in a World of

Artefacts”, 5th International Pragmatics Conference, Mexico City, July 10, 1996. 1995 * Gesture: Experience and Illusion. Center for Literary and Cultural Studies, Harvard

University, Sep. 25, 1995. What Gestures Know. International Symposium “Gestures Considered Cross-

Linguistically”, Linguistic Society of America, Albuquerque, NM, July 8 – 12, 1995. * Experiential Roots of Gesture. Humanities Center, University of California, Santa

Barbara, June 10, 1995. Images of Culture, Ethnicity, and Communication. Brown Bag Seminar, College of

Communication, UT Austin, Feb.22, 1995. Findings in the Gesture Box. Western States Communication Association, Annual

Meeting, Portland, OR, Feb. 13, 1995. * Handling Speech in Interaction: An Inquiry into Symbolic Processes. Dept. of Applied

Linguistics & TESL, University of California, Los Angeles, Feb. 10, 1995. 1994 Interaction by Inscription (Ecologies of practical action: Symbolization). Annual Meeting

of the Speech Communication Association, New Orleans, November 18-22, 1994.


* Symbol formation in social interaction. Dept. of Sociology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, Nov. 4, 1994.

J. Streeck &. N.S. Charoenggam. Natural cultural descriptions of speech. Annual

Meeting of the Speech Communication Association, New Orleans, November 18-22, 1994.

Gesture and environment. World Congress of Sociology, Bielefeld (Germany), July 18-

23, 1994. * The transparency of natural language: Ilokano figurations”. International Symposium”

Conversational analysis of foreign language data”, Odense University, Denmark, June 22-26, 1994

* Konversationsanalyse in der Objektwelt: Gesten, Sprache, Räume, Sachen. Universität

Bielefeld, Germany, May 11, 1994. How iconic gestures mean. Annual Meetings of the Western Speech Communication

Association, San José, CA, Feb. 25, 1994. 1993 Objets trouvés and symbolization. Speech Communication Association, Annual

Meeting, Miami, FL, Nov.1993 * Beyond gesture: The continuum of symbolization. Paper presented in the PARSS

seminar series (Program for the Assessment and Renewal of the Social Sciences), University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, October 8, 1993.

* Die gestische Repräsentation des Sprechens. Institut für deutsche Sprache, Mannheim,

Germany, June 25, 1993. * Some Ways in Which Listeners Display their Understanding of Gestures. International

Communication Association, Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., May 30, 1993. Rap and the Art of Conversation. Conference ‘Conversation as an Art of Discovery’,

Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, March 25-27, 1993. * ‘Messages to Oreo Cookies’. Wie Rapper Stereotype gebrauchen. Symposium

‘Stereotype und ihre Wirkung im Diskurs’. Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung, Universität Bielefeld, Germany, February 8-10, 1993.

* The Construction of Conceptual Imagery in Gesture, Language, and Painting. Panel

‘Recent Contributions to the Study of Gesture in the Context of Talk. Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Los Angeles, CA, January 7-9, 1993.

1992 Significant Hand-Movements: On the Coordination of Gesture, Gaze, and Speech.

Speech Communication Association, Annual Convention, Chicago, IL, Oct. 1992


Imagery in Gesture and Language. International Communication Association, Annual Convention, Miami, FL, May 20-23, 1992.

The Reflexive Body: Self-Touch in the Public World. International Communication

Association, Annual Meeting, Miami, FL, May 20-23, 1992. (Top five paper in Language and Social Interaction)

1991 Gesture’s Ways of World-Making. International Conference on Ethnomethodology and

Conversation Analysis, Amsterdam, Netherlands, July 15-19, 1991 * Small World Democracy. International Conference “Quality of Citizenship”, Utrecht,

Netherlands, Mar. 20-22, 1991 * Voices of Afro-America: Jazz and Rap. Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht, Netherlands, Mar. 19,

1991 Media Discourse and the War. Symposium “Communicating the War”, College of

Communication, The University of Texas at Austin, Feb. 28, 1991. Turn-Transition: A Systematic Locus for the Use of Gesture. Annual Meeting of the

Western States Communication Association, Phoenix, AZ, Feb. 18, 1991. * Rap: Esthetics and Politics. Interest Group “Modernism”. Feb. 1, The University of Texas

at Austin, 1991. 1990 The Significance of Rap. 10th Anniversary Convention of the Speech Communication

Association of Puerto Rico, San Juan, December 7-8, 1990 * A Late Discovery. Annual Convention of the Speech Communication Association,

Chicago, November 1-4, 1990. * Rousseau’s Legacy: Discovering Human Nature in Cultural and Linguistic Diversity.

Dept. of Communication, Arizona State University, October 22, 1990 Universal Tendencies and Cultural Variation in Conversational Organization.

3.International Pragmatics Conference, Barcelona/Spain, July 9-13, 1990 Die politische Rhetorik des Rap. Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR, Berlin (GDR),

May 22, 1990 * On Projection. International Colloquium on the Implications of a Social Origin of

Human Intelligence.Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin/Institute for Advanced Study, Berlin, May 18-19, 1990

1989


* A Gesture-System in Action: Bet-Soliciting and Bet-Taking in the Philippine Cock-Fight. Institute for Research on Learning, Palo Alto, November 22, 1989

* On Self-Repair in Ilokano. Annual Meeting of the Speech Communication Association,

San Francisco, November 18-22, 1989 * The Social Organization of Auto-Focused Body-Action in Conversation. 88th Annual

Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington D.C., November 18-22, 1989

* Research Colloquium on Linguistics. Graduate School of St. Mary’s College,

Bayombong/ Philippines, 1989 1988 * Interaktion durch zitierte Rede. Deutscher Soziologentag, Zürich (Switzerland), October

6, 1988 * Images for Talk: On Some Meta-Pragmatic Gestures in Ilokano Conversation.

International Conference “Contextualization of Language”, Universität Konstanz, October 3-5, 1988

* Körper-Zitate/Reinszenierungen. 10.Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für

Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Wuppertal, March 1988. Körperwörter. Über eine Art der Koordination von Sprache und Gestik. Linguistisches

Colloquium, Fachbereich Germanistik, Freie Universität Berlin, January 24, 1988. 1987 * Handbewegungen. Beobachtungen eines Linguisten. Soziologisches

Forschungscolloquium, Freie Universität Berlin, December 9, 1987 * Sprache und Gestik: Sprachvergleichende Beobachtungen. Seminar für englische

Philologie/ John F.Kennedy-Institut, Freie Universität Berlin, November 26, 1987 Gesture and Conversation: Some Cross-Linguistic Observations. International

Pragmatics Conference, Antwerp/Belgium, August 16-21, 1987 *Roundtable “Methoden der Gesprächsanalyse”. Internationaler Linguistenkongreß,

Berlin (GDR), August 10-15, 1987 * Über Gestik und Sprachen. Technische Universität Berlin, June 29, 1987 1986 Symbolic Modes and Interactive Modes: A Goffmanian View of Old Ladies’ Verbal Art.

International Conference “Erving Goffman: An Interdisciplinary Appreciation”, University of York/England, July 8-11, 1986


* A Formal Conversational Analysis of a Family Reunion in Northern Germany. International Conference “Talk and Social Structure”, University of California, Santa Barbara, March 1986

* Über die Kategorie ‘Geschlecht’ in einer kindlichen Interaktion. 8.Jahrestagung der

deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, Heidelberg, February 26-28, 1986 Die leichte Muse des gewöhnlichen Gesprächs. Linguistisches Colloquium, Fachbereich

Germanistik, Freie Universität Berlin, December 1985. * Interaktion durch zitierte Rede. Universität Osnabrück/Vechta, October 1985. * Über die Unterhaltungskunst einiger älterer Frauen in Mannheim. Kolloquium

“Ethnographische Ansätze in der Soziolinguistik”. Institut für deutsche Sprache, Mannheim, June 6-8, 1985.

* Über Witz und Humor in der Interaktion älterer Frauen. Universität Oldenburg, January,

1984 * Kognitive Pläne und Interaktionskonstitution. Institut für deutsche Sprache, October 25,

1983. * Response paper on methods of analyzing interethnic communication. Symposium

“Interpretative Methoden zur Erforschung des Sprachverhaltens von Migrantenkindern”, Universität Konstanz, Sept.29-Oct.1, 1982.

* Pädagogische Kommunikation im Kontext der Peer-Gruppe. Internationales

Symposium zur Diskursanalyse, Universität Essen, March 5-6, 1982. * Die soziale Organisation von Fehlschlägen in der interkulturellen Kommunikation.

4.Jahrestagung der deutschen Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, Universität Köln, March 2-4, 1982.

Workshop “Peer Interaction”. Internationale Konferenz über Ethnomethodologie und

Konversationsanalyse, Universität Konstanz, Februar 1980. * Lehrerwelten - Kinderwelten. Internationale Konferenz über Kommunikation in Schule

und Hochschule. Universität Düsseldorf, July 1978 Invited Workshops (presenter) May 24 – 25, 2019 Workshop ‘Digital Childhood – Research Workshop. Dörsdorf,

Germany June 29, 2015 “Ikonische Gesten im Erwerb” (Acquisition of iconic gestures)

Workshop with Jürgen Streeck. University of Bielefeld (Germany). Feb.3, 2014 Workshop “Speech and Gesture: Embodied Cultural Practices”.

Viadrina European University, Frankfurt/Oder, Germany Jan. 30-31, 2014 Workshop “The Interactive Organization of Touch”. Gothenburg


University, Sweden. (Discussant) Dec.3, 2012 Workshop on Gesture, Kyoto University, Japan. April 27, 2007 Workshop on multimodal communication in workplace interaction.

LISO, University of California, Santa Barbara. June 8, 2006 Workshop on embodiment in political communication, Dept. of

Rhetoric, Örebro University, Örebro/Sweden, with B. Mral Dec. 2 – 3, 2005 Research workshop on the analysis of visual data, International

Graduate School in Sociology, Fakultät für Soziologie, Universität Bielefeld

June 23, 2004 Workshop “Gestik als symbolische Praxis” (Gesture as Symbolic Praxis). Forschungskolleg für Medien und kulturelle Kommunikation, University of Cologne, Germany

June 29 - July 3, 1998 Workshop, “Embodiment of Experience in Social Interaction,” Universität Hildesheim, Germany, Graduiertenkolleg “Authentizität als Darstellungsform”

June 10, 1995 Workshop on Gestural Narrative. Humanities Center, U of California, Santa Barbara

May 20 – 24, 1995 Workshop “Visual Ethnography of Expressive Behavior,” Universität Hildesheim, Germany, Graduiertenkolleg “Authentizität als Darstellungsform”

April 10-12, 1995 Workshop on Intercultural Communication. International Symposium “Polnisch-deutsche interkulturelle Kommunikation,” Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung, Universität Bielefeld (Germany)

February 11, 1993 Workshop: Ethnische Stereotype im Diskurs. Zentrum für interdisziplinäre Forschung, Universität Bielefeld, Germany

SERVICE Offices in academic organizations Inaugural President, International Society for Gesture Studies, 2002-05 Executive Board (Past President), International Society for Gesture Studies, 2005-07,

2010- Chair, National Communication Organization, Language and Social Interaction

Division, November 2004-05 (Vice-Chair Elect 2002-03, Vice-Chair 2003-04, Past Chair 2005-06)

International Pragmatics Association, Consultation Board, 1987-2005. Organization of scientific conferences "Intercorporeal Practices and Human Action". International Workshop, Graduate

College “Self-Making”, Fakultät IV, Carl von Ossietzky-Universität Oldenburg, Germany. J. Streeck & K. Brünner, Organizers. April 1 – 3, 2014

“Dialogue in Multimodal, Multilingual, and Multicompetent Communities of Practice.” Workshop of the International Association for Dialogue Analysis. D.A. Koike, C. Blyth, and J. Streeck, Organizers. March 22-24, 2013

“The Body Shop. An International Symposium on the Senses in Interaction.” Sponsored by the College of Communication and the Mind Science Foundation. J. Streeck, J.S. Jordan & C. Meyer, Organizers. The University of Texas at Austin, May 12-15, 2011.


“The Enculturated Body – Time Scales of Embodied Meaning in Communication”. International Symposium at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), Bielefeld University, co-sponsored by The Mind-Science Foundation, San Antonio, TX. J.S. Jordan, J. Streeck and I. Wachsmuth, Organizers. June 26-28, 2008.

Scientific board, “Integrating Gestures”—Third Congress of the International Society for Gesture Studies, Chicago, IL, June 18-21, 2007

“The Forward-Looking Nature of Embodied Communication: Projection, Anticipation, and Time-Scales in Social Interaction,” Symposium at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), Bielefeld University. J.S. Jordan and J. Streeck, Organizers. July 10-11, 2006

Scientific board, “Interacting Bodies”—Second Congress of the International Society for Gesture Studies, Lyon/France, June 15-18, 2005

Pre-Conference “Moving Forward Looking Back: Multimodality – The New Paradigm?” at the Annual NCA convention. J. Streeck, Organizer and Chair. Chicago, November 10, 2004

“Gesture – The Living Medium,” First Congress of the International Society for Gesture Studies, UT Austin. J. Streeck, Organizer and Chair. June 5 – 8, 2002

International Conference Committee, 5th International Pragmatics Conference, Mexico City, July 1996

Organizing Committee, Conference “Affect in Communication”, The University of Texas at Austin, College of Communication, 1991

2nd Annual Conference of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin, 1980 (Member, Organizing Committee)

Organization of sessions at scientific conferences Panel “Modalities of Anticipation: Disjunct and Convergent Temporalities and the

Organization of Action”. A. Deppermann & J. Streeck (organizers). 14th International Conference on Conversation Analysis. University of California, Los Angeles, June 25-29, 2014

Panel “Salient Space - Linguistic Representation and Interactional Organisation of Place”. 10th International Pragmatics Conference, Manchester, UK, July 4, 2011. J. Streeck & P. Auer, Organizers.

Organizer and Chair, “Multimodality: Embodied Interaction in the Material World”. Panel at the National Communication Association Annual Convention, Language and Social Interaction Division, San Francisco, CA, November 15, 2011.

Organizer and Chair, Panel “Advances in Micro-Ethnography: Multimodal Interaction in Contexts of Socialization”, Annual Convention of the National Communication Association, Boston, MA, November 19, 2005.

Organizer, Panel “A Quest for Synergy: LSI and Organizational Communication”, Annual Convention of the National Communication Association, Boston, MA, November 18, 2005.

Organizer, Panel “Embodied Thought”, Annual Convention of the National Communication Association, Chicago, Nov. 1997. (Top-rated submission to the Language and Social Interaction Division).

Organizer and Chair, Panel “Gesture and Language Use in a World of Artefacts”, 5th International Pragmatics Conference, Mexico City, July 1996.

Organizer and Chair, Panel ‘Recent Advances in Multimedia Research on Human Interaction’. Western States Communication Association, Portland, OR, February 1995.


Organizer, Panel ‘Ecologies of Practical Action’, Annual Convention of the Speech Communication Association, New Orleans, LA, Nov. 18-22, 1994.

Annual Convention of the Speech Communication Association, Miami, FL, Nov. 1993. Panel ‘Mind and Meaning in the Material World: Multiple Representations in Face-to-Face Interaction’.

Chair, Panel ‘Discourse and Pragmatics II’, SALSA, The University of Texas at Austin, April 16-18, 1993.

Chair, Panel ‘Emotion within Social Interaction’, Speech Communication Association, Annual Convention, Chicago, IL, Oct. 1992.

Organizer, Panel ‘Gesticulation: Cultural, Conceptual, and Interactive Features of Embodied Communication’, International Communication Association, Annual Meeting, Miami, FL, May, 1992.

Organizer and Chair, Panel ‘Language Use and Social Identity in Urban Settings: An International Perspective’. Annual Convention of the Speech Communication Association, Atlanta, GA, Oct. 31-Nov. 3, 1991.

Co-Organizer, Symposium “Communicating the War”, The University of Texas at Austin, College of Communication, February 1991.

Co-Organizer (with C. Heath), Roundtable ‘Language and Interaction: Universals and Cultural Forms’, 3rd International Pragmatics Conference, Barcelona, Spain, July 1990.

Co-Organizer (with W.Corsaro), Session on “Language, Socialization, Children’s Worlds, and Social-Structural Settings”, 10. Word-Congress of Sociology, Mexico City, August 1982.

Organizer, Section “Interethnic Communication and Ethnic Identity”, 2nd Scandinavian-German Symposium on Language Problems of Migrant Workers and their Children, Berlin, September 1980.

Editorial boards Editorial Board, Multimodal Communication, 2012- Editorial Board, Gesture, 2002- Advisory Board, Psychotherapie und Sozialwissenschaft, 1998- Editorial Board, Visual Communication Quarterly, 2005-8 Editorial Board, Papers in Pragmatics, 1988-1991 Academic advisor to research grant “Untersuchung des Gebärdendolmetschens” (Sign Language Interpreting); Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin-Forschung. H. Richter (co-director), H. Ebbinghaus, J. Heßmann (researchers); 1987-1989 Campus Service University Committees (The University of Texas at Austin) 2011 Hamilton Award Committee 2008- University Fulbright Committee 2003-05 University Fulbright Committee 1996-1997 Provost’s Design Group 1995-1998 Multimedia Instruction Committee 1991-1992 Center for Teaching Effectiveness, International Faculty Committee 1990 International Office, Study Abroad Program, Selection Committee


College Committees (College of Communication, U of Texas at Austin) 2010- Scholarship Committee 2008 Research Committee 2004-06 Research Committee 1998-99 Chair, Committee on Diversity Issues 1998-99 Standing Committee on the Internationalization of the College 1990-92 Standing Committee on the Internationalization of the College 1994-96 Co-Organizer, with J. Newton, Visual Studies Interest Group 1993-94 Minority Affairs Committee 1992, '94, '95 Senior Fellows Program, Selection Committee 1993, 1995 Wayne Danielson Award, Nominating Committee 1990 Multiculturalism Interest Group 1989, '90, '92 Senior Fellows Program, Resource Person Department Committees (Dept. of Communication Studies, U of Texas at Austin) 1989- Graduate Studies Committee 2011 Search Committee, Assistant professorship in Organizational

Communication 2004 Search Committee, Assistant professorship in Rhetoric and Language

Studies 1994 - 2001 Planning and Supervision of Multimedia Lab 1994-96 Graduate Internship Coordinator 1992-93 Chair, Graduate Student Evaluation Committee 1992 Search Committee, Interpersonal Communication (Family

Communication) Department Committees (Other Departments) 2000-02 Extended Budget Council, Dept. of Germanic Studies 2000 Promotion Committee, Dr. Mark Southern, Dept. of Germanic Studies 2000 Search Committee, Position in German Linguistics, Dept of Germanic

Studies 1998- Graduate Studies Committee, Dept. of Germanic Studies 1994- Graduate Studies Committee, Program “Teaching English as a Foreign

Language (EFL),” College of Education 1987-88 Freie Universität Berlin, Fachbereich Germanistik, Executive Council,

(elected) 1986-87 Freie Universität Berlin, Fachbereich Germanistik, Study Reform Committee

(elected) Other service to the university Organizer, Weekly data-sessions (research meetings) for graduate students

1996-99; 2001-04; 2006-2011 1991-97 Orientation for International Teaching Assistants and Assistant Instructors,

Lecture/Workshop “Understanding American Academic and Student Culture,” Center for Teaching Effectiveness, The University of Texas at Austin

1991 Lecture/Seminar on rap music, MICOM VII, Minority Introduction to Communication, College of Communication, UT Austin


1989-96 Designed and implemented undergraduate class assignments requiring students’ personal involvement with minority communities.

Community Service Presentation about gesture and embodied communication. Austin Newcomers Club.

August 2010. Presentation about the Holocaust from the perspective of a German child. Travis

Heights Elementary School, March 1997 Mentor, Travis Heights Elementary School, Austin TX (Communities in Schools Mentoring

Program), 1995-96 Organized book donation, German Ministry of Foreign Affairs, to St.Mary’s College,

Bayombong, Philippines, $ 1,400, 1989 Teacher’s Aide, Logan Heights Elementary, San Diego, CA, 1976-77 Student Council, City of Bremerhaven (Germany), President, 1968-89 Student Council, Wilhelm-Raabe-Schule, Bremerhaven, President, 1967-69 Membership in Professional Associations American Anthropological Association International Pragmatics Association (Consultation Board, 1987-2005) International Society for Gesture Studies (President, 2002-2005) National Communication Association (Chair, Language and Social Interaction Division, 2004-5)

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