Our own Alex Goebel has been awarded an XPrag Internship for Summer 2018. He’ll be spending the summer in Cologne working with Professor Petra Schumacher, as part of her project “InfoPer: Processing speaker’s meaning: Informativeness and perspective.” During that time, Alex will work with Professor Schumacher on an investigation of the relation between German demonstrative pronouns and perspective. One particular focus of this work will be on the influence of expressive speech acts, and the question of how a comprehender is able to identify a speech act as expressive in the absence of unambiguous cues. Congratulations, Alex!