My research sits at the intersection of historical pragmatics and Germanic linguistics, with a focus on the speech act systems of Old and Middle Germanic. I am interested in how illocutionary force was encoded, modulated, and represented in texts produced in conditions of oral-scribal transmission, and in what pragmatic analysis of these texts can reveal about the social structures and communicative norms of early medieval Germanic communities. Methodologically, my work draws on Speech Act Theory, Speech Representation Theory, and corpus-based approaches to historical data.

A secondary research strand addresses variational pragmatics in contemporary Colombian Spanish, and a third concerns L2 acquisition and fluency development.

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