Degrees

2015 PhD in Social Science, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics / Radboud University Nijmegen

2010 MA in Linguistics, Radboud University Nijmegen

2009 BA in Linguistics, University of Bologna

Publications

Since 2020

Rossi, Giovanni, Tanya Stivers, and Andrew Chalfoun. Forthcoming. “When Requests Are Not Articulated: Accountability and Social Action Ascription.” Research on Language and Social Interaction.

Rossi, Giovanni. 2025. Systems of Social Action: The Case of Requesting in Italian. Oxford University Press. LINK

Chalfoun, Andrew, Giovanni Rossi, and Tanya Stivers. 2025. “The Magic Word? Face-Work and the Functions of Please in Everyday Requests.” Social Psychology Quarterly 88(1):66–88. PDF, MEDIA RELEASE, ALTMETRIC

Stivers, Tanya, Andrew Chalfoun, and Giovanni Rossi. 2024. “To Err Is Human but to Persist Is Diabolical: Reproaching Departures in Social Interaction.” Frontiers in Sociology: Sociological Theory 9. OPEN ACCESS

Küttner, Uwe-A., Laurenz Kornfeld, Christina Mack, Lorenza Mondada, Jowita Rogowska, Giovanni Rossi, Marja-Leena Sorjonen, Matylda Weidner, and Jörg Zinken. 2024. “Introducing the ‘Parallel European Corpus of Informal Interaction’: A Novel Resource for Exploring Cross-Situational and Cross-Linguistic Variability in Social Interaction.” Pp. 132–160 in New Perspectives in Interactional Linguistic Research, edited by M. Selting and D. Weingarten. John Benjamins. PDF

Clift, Rebecca, and Giovanni Rossi. 2023. “Speaker Eyebrow Raises in the Transition Space: Pursuing a Shared Understanding.” Social Interaction. Video-Based Studies of Human Sociality 6(3). OPEN ACCESS

Rossi, Giovanni, Mark Dingemanse, Simeon Floyd, Julija Baranova, Joe Blythe, Kobin H. Kendrick, Jörg Zinken, and N. J. Enfield. 2023. “Shared Cross-Cultural Principles Underlie Human Prosocial Behavior at the Smallest Scale.” Scientific Reports 13:6057. OPEN ACCESS , MEDIA RELEASE AND COVERAGE, ALTMETRIC

Laurenz, Kornfeld and Giovanni Rossi. 2023. “Enforcing Rules During Play: Knowledge, Agency, and the Design of Instructions and Reminders.” Research on Language and Social Interaction 56(1):42–64. PDF

Stivers, Tanya, Giovanni Rossi, and Andrew Chalfoun. 2022. “Ambiguities in Action Ascription.” Social Forces 101(3):1552–1579. PDF

Zinken, Jörg, Julia Kaiser, Matylda Weidner, Lorenza Mondada, Giovanni Rossi, and Marja-Leena Sorjonen. 2021. “Rule Talk: Instructing Proper Play with Impersonal Deontic Statements.” Frontiers in Communication 6:660394. OPEN ACCESS

Drew, Paul, Auli Hakulinen, Trine Heinemann, Jarkko Niemi, and Giovanni Rossi. 2021. “Hendiadys in Naturally Occurring Interactions: A Cross-Linguistic Study of Double Verb Constructions.” Journal of Pragmatics 182:322–347. PDF

Rossi, Giovanni, and Tanya Stivers. 2021. “Category-Sensitive Actions in Interaction.” Social Psychology Quarterly 84(1):49–74. PDF

Rossi, Giovanni. 2021. “Conversation Analysis.” In The International Encyclopedia of Linguistic Anthropology, edited by J. Stanlaw. Wiley-Blackwell. PDF

Kendrick, Kobin H., Penelope Brown, Mark Dingemanse, Simeon Floyd, Sonja Gipper, Kaoru Hayano, Elliott Hoey, Gertie Hoymann, Elizabeth Manrique, Giovanni Rossi, and Stephen C. Levinson. 2020. “Sequence Organization: A Universal Infrastructure for Social Action.” Journal of Pragmatics 168:119–138. PDF

Rossi, Giovanni. 2020. “The Prosody of Other-Repetition in Italian: A System of Tunes.” Language in Society 49(4):619–652. PDF

Rossi, Giovanni. 2020. “Other-Repetition in Conversation Across Languages: Bringing Prosody into Pragmatic Typology.” Language in Society 49(4):495–520. PDF

Rossi, Giovanni, Simeon Floyd, and N. J. Enfield. 2020. “Recruitments and Pragmatic Typology.” Pp. 1–23 in Getting Others to Do Things: A Pragmatic Typology of Recruitments, edited by S. Floyd, G. Rossi, and N. J. Enfield. Language Science Press. OPEN ACCESS

Rossi, Giovanni. 2020. “The Recruitment System in Italian.” Pp. 147–201 in Getting Others to Do Things: A Pragmatic Typology of Recruitments, edited by S. Floyd, G. Rossi, and N. J. Enfield. Language Science Press. OPEN ACCESS

Floyd, Simeon, Giovanni Rossi, and N. J. Enfield. 2020. “A Coding Scheme for Recruitment Sequences in Interaction.” Pp. 25–50 in Getting Others to Do Things: A Pragmatic Typology of Recruitments, edited by S. Floyd, G. Rossi, and N. J. Enfield. Language Science Press. OPEN ACCESS

Zinken, Jörg, Giovanni Rossi, and Vasudevi Reddy. 2020. “Doing More than Expected: Thanking Recognizes Another’s Agency in Providing Assistance.” Pp. 253–278 in Mobilizing Others: Grammar and Lexis within Larger Activities, edited by C. Taleghani-Nikazm, E. Betz, and P. Golato. John Benjamins. PDF

Awards & Grants

Since 2020

2025–2026 UCLA Bedari Kindness Institute Research Fellowship. PI: Tanya Stivers; Co-PI: Giovanni Rossi, Graduate Student Researcher: Amanda Morris

2022–2025 Subcontract for CIRANO: Cross-Cultural Interaction Real-Time Assistant for Negotiators and Operators, funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Computational Cultural Understanding program. PI: Tanya Stivers; Co-PI: Giovanni Rossi; Graduate Student Researcher: Andrew Chalfoun

2021–2022 Hellman Fellowship, UCLA

2020–2023 Leibniz Cooperative Excellence Grant funded by the Leibniz Association. PI: Jörg Zinken; Co-Investigators: Giovanni Rossi, Lorenza Mondada, Matylda Weidner, Marja-Leena Sorjonen