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Jürgen
Streeck
Dept.
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Streeck is associate professor in the Departments of Communication Studies
and Germanic Studies at the University of Texas at Austin and also serves
on the faculty of the programs in Foreign Language Education and African
and African-American Studies. His main area of expertise is the video-based
study of human face-to-face interaction in real-life settings, with a focus
on uses and coordinations of gesture, speech, and other media of communication.
He has conducted field-research in Germany, U.S.A., the Philippines, Bali,
and among African-American children; his recent research focuses on embodied
action and interaction in the work-place. Jürgen Streeck is president of the International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS), and serves on the editorial board of Gesture and the advisory/consultation boards of the journal Psychotherapie und Sozialwissenschaft and the International Pragmatics Association (IPRA). He is also an officer of the Language and Social Interaction Division of NCA. He teaches undergraduate classes on social interaction and visual media; intercultural communication; and hip-hop/rap. He trains graduate students in the microanalysis of human interaction and its theoretical, methodological, and cultural foundations. His own work is grounded in phenomenology and ordinary language philosophy; conversation analysis; cognitive linguistics; and the interaction theories of Gregory Bateson, Erving Goffman, and George Herbert Mead. Jürgen has two children and lives with his teenage son in South Austin. He loves music (jazz, hip-hop, Latin and world music, and classical music of the 18th and 19th century); he also has a strong interest in art, especially Renaissance, Baroque, and modern art since the 1940s, and in international politics. And he loves to work with his hands. He is a member of Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and South Austin Neighbors for Peace. |
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