Sarah is a PhD student in the CRC 1718 Common Ground and a member of project C1. As part of her dissertation, she is investigating polarizing strategies at the intersection of linguistics and rhetoric related to common ground, such as pronoun-driven polarization and emotionalization.
pronoun-driven in-group vs. out-group (we/us – they/them) constructions
affective polarization and strategic emotionalization
interaction of linguistic and rhetorical CG strategies (presupposition, deletion, ambiguation) in naturally occurring corpus data and linguistic experiments
M.Ed. in English and Spanish, University of Tübingen, 2026
B.Ed. in English and Spanish, University of Tübingen, 2024