Jürgen Streeck
Affiliated Faculty — Ph.D., Freie Universität Berlin
Professor, Department of Communication Studies
Contact
- E-mail: jstreeck@austin.utexas.edu
- Phone: (512) 471-1955
- Office: CMA 7.118A
- Campus Mail Code: A1105
Interests
Language & culture; interaction theory; visual research; human interaction as cultural practice; gesture; hip hop and what it knows about human language
Biography
Language & culture; interaction theory; visual research; human interaction as cultural practice; gesture; how symbol systems (especially gesture and language) evolve in interaction; relationships between linguistic & embodied components (multimodality) and in the cultural foundations of communication; microprocesses of speaker-listener cooperation in diverse human languages; how rappers have re-invented language and how a new community, the ‘hip-hop nation’, has evolved from new ways of using languages
