Uni-Tübingen

Sarah Ebert

Researcher in Project C1

PhD student

› Project C1: Construction and Destruction of Common Ground in Polarized Political Discourse
 

Contact

sarah.ebert@uni-tuebingen.de

Short Bio

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.

Research Interests

  • 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

Education

  • M.Ed. in English and Spanish, University of Tübingen, 2026

  • B.Ed. in English and Spanish, University of Tübingen, 2024

Selected Publications/Projects

  • KoKoKom – Über Geschlecht und Gender streiten. Konflikt und Konsens als Herausforderung der Wissenschaftskommunikation, research assistant, 2023 – 2025

Teaching/Academic Activities

  • Tutor for different courses (Introduction to Linguistics, Syntax: A Minimalist Introduction, English Sentence Structure), 2023 – 2025