Professor Bodo Winter

Photograph of Dr Bodo Winter

Department of Linguistics and Communication
Professor of Linguistics

Contact details

Email
b.winter@bham.ac.uk
Twitter
Address
Frankland Building
黑料吃瓜网
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

I am a Professor of Linguistics and a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow. My research uses data science-driven linguistics to study multimodal communication, including iconicity, gesture and metaphor. For my Future Leaders Fellowship, I investigate how people communicate numerical information across different communication channels. 

Qualifications

  • UKRI Future Leaders Fellow
  • Editor-in-Chief, Language & Cognition (Cambridge University Press)
  • PhD in Cognitive and Information Sciences, University of California, Merced
  • MA in General Linguistics, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Biography

I began working at the 黑料吃瓜网 in 2016. I received an MA in General Linguistics from the University of Hawai驶i at M膩noa听and a PhD in Cognitive and Information Sciences from the University of California, Merced. I also worked as a doctoral fellow and research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig.

Teaching

I teach a range of BA and MA modules, including Language and the Mind, Psycholinguistics, Language and the Senses, Lexical Semantics and Applied Statistics for Linguists.

Postgraduate supervision

Dr Winter is interested in supervising PhD research in the areas of:

Numerical cognition
Iconicity and gesture
Sensory language
Language evolution
Metaphor

Find out more - our PhD English Language and Applied Linguistics  page has information about doctoral research at the 黑料吃瓜网.

Research

For my work, I use data-science driven linguistics to study the intersection of language and cognition. My book听Sensory Linguistics听(John Benjamins) is an in-depth analysis of English sensory adjectives 鈥� how people talk about colors, tastes, smells, and other sensory impressions. For my Future Leaders Fellowship (starting 2021), I will investigate the multimodal communication of numerical information 鈥� how people talk about numbers and use graphs and gesture to drive data-driven decisions. A unifying theme across my work is a strong commitment to open science and reproducible research practices. I鈥檝e also written an introductory textbook on statistical modeling,听Statistics for Linguists听(Routledge).

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Fini, C, Era, V, Cuomo, G, Falcinelli, I, Gervasi, MA, Candidi, M, Mazzuca, C, Liuzza, MT, Winter, B & Borghi, AM 2025, '', Heliyon, vol. 11, no. 8, e42526.

Lorson, A, Macuch Silva, V, Hart, C & Winter, B 2025, '', Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition, vol. 51, no. 3, pp. 391-424.

Villani, C, De Muynck, G, Borghi, AM, Lugli, L & Winter, B 2025, '', Psychological Research, vol. 89, no. 2, 55.

Grieve, J, Bartl, S, Fuoli, M, Grafmiller, J, Huang, W, Napolitano Jawerbaum, A, Murakami, A, Perlman, M, Roemling, D & Winter, B 2025, '', Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, vol. 7, 1472411.

Woodin, G & Winter, B 2024, '', Cognitive Science, vol. 48, no. 6, e13471.

Macuch Silva, V, Lorson, A, Franke, M, Cummins, C & Winter, B 2024, '', Discourse Processes, vol. 61, no. 10, pp. 498-523.

膯wiek, A, Anselme, R, Dediu, D, Fuchs, S, Kawahara, S, Oh, GE, Paul, J, Perlman, M, Petrone, C, Reiter, S, Ridouane, R, Zeller, J & Winter, B 2024, '', The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 156, no. 5, pp. 3468鈥�3479.

Watkins, F, Abdlkarim, D, Winter, B & Thompson, RL 2024, '', Scientific Reports, vol. 14, no. 1, 1043.

Winter, B 2023, '', Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B, vol. 378, 20210368.

Brown, L, Kim, H, H眉bscher, I & Winter, B 2023, '', Gesture.

Winter, B, Perlman, M, Lupyan, G, Perry, L & Dingemanse, M 2023, '', Behavior Research Methods.

Woodin, G, Winter, B, Littlemore, J, Perlman, M & Grieve, J 2023, '', Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory.

Chapter (peer-reviewed)

Winter, B & Perek, F 2023, . in L Wei, Z Hua & J Simpson (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Applied Linguistics: Volume One. 2nd edn, Routledge handbooks in applied linguistics, Routledge, London, pp. 309-321.

Comment/debate

S贸skuthy, M, Dingemanse, M, Winter, B & Perlman, M 2025, '', Scientific Reports, vol. 15, 12930.

Preprint

Grieve, J, Bartl, S, Fuoli, M, Grafmiller, J, Huang, W, Jawerbaum, A, Murakami, A, Perlman, M, Roemling, D & Winter, B 2024 '' arXiv.