I'm a PhD student at the Grup de Lingüística Formal, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, under the supervision of Dr. Martina Wiltschko. My research focuses on the relationship between language and emotions. Particularly, I'm interested in describing how people use interactional particles to express emotive and epistemic states in conversation.

In order to do so, I use Conversation Analytical methods to describe the use of these particles in different social activities: storytelling, interviews, troubles tellings, etc. This will allow me, on the one hand, to define the content expressed by these particles across contexts; and on the other hand, to determine the role of context and prosody in deriving these particles' principal function.